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| Video Discription | (10 Nov 1995) English/Nat Former U-S Defence Secretary Robert McNamara says he hasn't gone to Vietnam to apologise for his role in the Vietnam war. McNamara was speaking at the end of a four-day visit to Hanoi. As defence secretary during the 1960s McNamara was an advocate of U-S participation in the war, a decision he later described as "a terrible mistake". It was Robert McNamara's first visit to the former enemy capital which he once targetted for bomb attacks. As defence secretary from 1961-68 under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and an advocate of U-S participation in the war, McNamara was once one of the most reviled names in North Vietnam. Two decades on, his four-day visit to Hanoi was spent trying to secure Vietnamese support for a forthcoming conference of top decision-makers during the Vietnam War. Organised by the Council of Foreign Relations, the gathering would be an opportunity to share archive material - documents which McNamara feels should be widely available for future generations. SOUNDBITE: We should draw lessons from that we should be able to put on the shelves of universities across the world analysis of conflict and how to avoid it. The human race is oriented towards conflict, look at Bosnia, look at Somalia, look at Rwanda, now how can we avoid those things? We can learn from them, the mistakes we've made in the past, that would be the objective. SUPER CAPTION: Robert McNamara - Former U-S Defence Secretary McNamara told a news conference he hadn't come to Hanoi to atone for his role in the Vietnam War but to learn the lessons of previous wars and avoid future conflicts. SOUNDBITE: I think (indistinguishable?) and I hope you are concerned about 160 million people killed by conflict. Is that what you as a human being stand for? And if not you ought to be as concerned as I am to find out ways to avoid this in the 21st century, that's why. SUPER CAPTION: Robert McNamara - Former U-S Defence Secretary In memoirs published this year, McNamara revealed that when he left office he was convinced the Vietnam war had been a terrible mistake. A mistake for which many still hold him accountable. SOUNDBITE: Well at the time we thought very poorly of him, it was McNamara's war and our conclusion was that in fact he was a kind of war criminal we held him personally responsible for the war policy that was our view of him at the time. SUPER CAPTION: Jayne Werner - Vietnam specialist, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University (New York) Throughout his highly-publicised visit McNamara has brushed aside questions about whether the United States should compensate Vietnam for war damages. The death toll in the Vietnam war was high - 58-thousand on the U-S side and more than 3 million fighters and civilians on the Communist side. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/35d7c5b5146d900e1f8fd1cef953e276 Tz2vTVL1J6k |
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