Gonzales Report [Vietnam; HemisFair Groundbreaking]; Gonzales Report [Vietnam; HemisFair Groundbreaking]

  • Beginning of program
  • Acknowledges WOAI-TV, KENS-TV and KWEX-TV for providing airtime. He also mentions a remaining San Antonio VHF station [KONO-TV?] that does not provide airtime for his weekly reports
  • Mentions that WOAI and KENS allow him to occasionally record his program in San Antonio
  • Talks about the significance of the prior week's HemisFair federal pavilion groundbreaking ceremony
  • "It may be the one thing that can anchor...the breakthrough that we must make in coexisting in the western hemisphere with the nations that destiny has placed along our side."
  • Vietnam
  • Speaks of close-minded American critics who have rushed to judgment on the Vietnam conflict
  • Suggests that critics may have a self-defeating psychological bias against the country
  • Mentions "a very distinguished and noble man" erroneously depicting the United States as "a Nazi-type, a conqueror."
  • "Men are dying, and naturally, no American wishes to associate himself in an unjust war."
  • "We may not seek a fight, we may not want a war, but we may have one thrust upon us."
  • References the pacifist literature of Sir Norman Angell, and rebuffs it with a quote from Hilaire Belloc's poem "The Pacifist"
  • On his reasons for supporting the Vietnam conflict
  • On faith in the president's leadership he says, "There are those who distrust the president. There are those who hate him. There are those who question his motives. I am not one of those."
  • Claims that only one in ten soldiers sent to Vietnam are exposed to combat