:21:02
In 1949, it was $10 billion.
:21:04
No war...no money.
:21:07
The organizing principle
of any society, Mr. Garrison...
:21:11
...is for war.
:21:12
The authority of the state over its people
resides in its war powers.
:21:16
Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War
in his second term.
:21:20
He wanted to call off the moon race
and cooperate with the Soviets.
:21:23
He signed a treaty to ban nuclear testing.
:21:26
He refused to invade Cuba in 1962.
:21:28
He set out to withdraw from Vietnam.
:21:32
But all that ended
on the 22nd of November, 1963.
:21:36
Since 1961, they knew Kennedy
was not going to war in Southeast Asia.
:21:41
Like Caesar, he is surrounded by enemies.
:21:44
Something's underway, but it has no face.
Yet, everybody in the loop knows.
:21:48
Forget about combat troops.
:21:50
He told McNamara he would pull out
the goddamn advisors!
:21:54
He fucked us in Laos and now
he will fuck us in Vietnam!
:21:59
He can't afford to implement it
before the election.
:22:02
I hear the NSC meeting
was a real barn burner.
:22:05
I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Heads will roll. Hear about Lemnitzer?
:22:09
What?
:22:10
Kennedy rubbed Lem's nose in shit.
:22:13
Said if we didn't go into Cuba,
which was so close...
:22:16
...why go into Vietnam
which is so far away?
:22:18
There he goes again.
:22:20
Got his hand on the chicken switch.
:22:22
Lem said that the Chiefs still think
we should go into Cuba.
:22:25
Money's at stake.
:22:27
Big money. $100 billion.
:22:30
Kennedy bred voting districts
for defense dollars.
:22:33
He gave TFX fighter contracts only
to those counties that will matter in '64.
:22:37
The people in the loop fight back.
Their way.
:22:40
We have to control the intelligence
from Saigon.
:22:43
We just don't let McNamara stick his nose
in this thing!
:22:47
Every time he goes over to Saigon
for a fact-finding mission...
:22:51
...he comes back and scares the shit
out of Kennedy!
:22:54
Now I want Max Taylor on him
night and day...
:22:56
...like a fly on shit.
:22:59
You control McNamara,
you control Kennedy.