REACTORS ARE PROTECTED BY
ROBUST CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES,
AND REACTORS ARE BEING SAFELY
SHUT DOWN.
AND SO, TONIGHT, THE NUCLEAR
NIGHTMARES OF THE COLD WAR
RETURN TO THE WORLD.
THANKS ENTIRELY TO VLADIMIR
PUTIN.
IN THE DAYS AFTER ADOLF HITLER
INVADED POLAND, THE ACCLAIMED
POET W. H., WROTE A FAMOUS POEM
CALLED SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1989.
AND OPENING LINES HE WROTE,
WAVES OF ANGER AND FEWER
CIRCULATE OVER THE BRIGHT AND
DARK AND LINES OF THE EARTH.
PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON USED A
LINE FROM THAT POEM AND WHAT
BECAME THE MOST FAMOUS
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN AD IN
HISTORY, THE LAST LINE OF THE
ADDEDS WAS FROM AUDIENCE POEM.
WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER, OR
DIE.
THAT ADDS SETS THE STAKES FOR
THE 1964 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
LIFE AND DEATH.
AND WITHOUT EVER SAYING THE
NAME OF THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE, EVERYTHING ABOUT THE
AD SAID THAT THE REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT, VERY
COLD WATER, COULD NOT BE
TRUSTED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
THE AD ESSENTIALLY SAID BARRY
GOLDWATER COULD GET US ALL
KILLED IN NUCLEAR WAR.
THIS HISTORIC TV AD RUN ONLY
ONCE, ON NBC.
BUT IT WAS SHOWN REPEATEDLY
AFTER THAT IN NEWS BROADCASTS.
THE AD WAS CREATED BY THE
LEGENDARY CAMPAIGN AD MAN TONY
SCHWARTZ, WHO I WORKED WITH ON
ONE CAMPAIGN LATE IN THIS
CAREER.
THIS ONE MINUTE OF TV LOCKED IN
THE PUBLIC MIND FOR THE REST OF
THE CENTURY THE PRESIDENTIAL
POSITION ON THE USE OF NUCLEAR
WEAPONS, AND THE ZERO TOLERANCE
FOR THE RISKS OF PROVOKING A NUCLEAR ATTACK FROM MOSCOW.
NUCLEAR ATTACK FROM MOSCOW. >> ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE,
>> ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE,
SEVEN, SIX, SIX, EIGHT, NINE,
NINE. >> TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX,
>> TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX,
FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE,.
>> THESE ARE THE STAKES, TO
MAKE A WORLD IN WHICH ALL OF
GODS CHILDREN CAN LIVE.
WE ARE TO GO INTO THE DARK.
WE MUST EITHER LOVE EACH OTHER
OR WE MUST DIE.
>> VOTE FOR PRESIDENT JOHNSON
ON NOVEMBER 3RD.
THE STAKES ARE TOO HIGH FOR YOU
TO STAY HOME.
>> MOST AMERICANS AREN'T OLD
ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE COLD WAR
VERY WELL.
IT HAD MANY OF THE SAME
ELEMENTS OF A HOT WAR.
WAR IS HELL, AND A COLD WAR IS
ITS OWN KIND OF HOW.
IT WAS A COLD WAR BECAUSE THE
TWO GREATEST NUCLEAR POWERS IN
THE WORLD AT THE TIME, THE
UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET
UNION, KNEW THAT THERE WERE
ABSOLUTELY NO CIRCUMSTANCES IN
WHICH EITHER COULD EVER FIRE A
SHOT DIRECTLY AT THE OTHER.
OR, NUCLEAR WAR COULD, AND
PROBABLY WOULD BREAK OUT,
KILLING MORE PEOPLE IN BOTH
COUNTRIES WITHIN AN HOUR THAT
HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE ENTIRE
HISTORY OF WAR.
AND THAT MEANT THAT WE IN THE
UNITED STATES JUST HAD TO
WATCH.
JUST WATCH, AS THE BERLIN WALL
WENT UP, AND AS CZECHOSLOVAKIA
WAS INVADED, AND ALL THE OTHER
CRUEL AGGRESSIONS OF THE
RUSSIAN DICTATORS WHO
CONTROLLED THE SOVIET UNION'S
NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
WE HAVE TO WATCH BECAUSE IT'S
FIRING ONE SHOT COULD GET US
ALL KILLED.
THAT'S WHY THE UNITED STATES
WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENFORCE A
NO FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE.
BECAUSE THAT PUTS THE UNITED
STATES AND RUSSIA ONE SHOT AWAY
FROM A WAR WITH EACH OTHER, IN
WHICH VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS
PUBLICLY INDICATED THAT HE IS
WILLING TO GO NUCLEAR.
TODAY, AFTER FRENCH PRESIDENT
EMMANUEL MACRON TOOK A PHONE
CALL FROM VLADIMIR PUTIN THAT
LASTED 90 MINUTES, A SENIOR
FRENCH OFFICIAL SAID THAT
MACRON IS CONVINCED THAT, QUOTE,
THE WORST IS YET TO COME.
AND, HE IS CONVINCED THAT
VLADIMIR PUTIN SHOWED, QUOTE,
DETERMINATION TO CONTINUE THE
MILITARY OPERATION AND TO
CONTINUE IT TO THE END.
UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY
ASKED ONCE AGAIN TODAY FOR THE
UNITED STATES AND NATO ALLIES
TO PROVIDE A NO FLY ZONE OVER
UKRAINE.
HE SAID, QUOTE, IF YOU CANNOT
INTRODUCE NO-FLY ZONE NOW, THEN
TELL US NOW, WHEN YOU WILL DO
IT.
IF YOU CANNOT TELL UKRAINIANS
NOW, WHEN YOU INTRODUCE THAT,
THEN WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?
TELL US HOW MANY PEOPLE MUST BE
BLOWN UP, HOW MANY LEGS, ARMS,
HEADS MUST BE TORN OFF AND FLY
AWAY TO FINALLY REACH YOU TO
MAKE YOU INTRODUCE NO-FLY ZONE.
HOW MANY?
TELL ME THE NUMBER, I WILL GO
MYSELF, AND WE WILL COUNT, AND
WAIT UNTIL THE TIME COMES.
PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY, THE
BRAVEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE SEEN.
HE IS UNDERSTANDABLY ASKING FOR
EVERYTHING HE CAN THINK OF TO
PROTECT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
OF UKRAINE.
BUT, PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY HAS
NOT TAKEN AN OATH TO PROTECT
THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES.
PRESIDENT BIDEN LIVED THROUGH
EVERY DAY OF THE COLD WAR, AND
SERVED IN THE SENATE DOING MOST
OF THE COLD WAR.
HE HAD SPENT SOME PORTION OF
EVERY DAY OF HIS PROFESSIONAL
LIFE THINKING ABOUT AMERICA'S
NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
PRESIDENT BIDEN UNDERSTANDS HIS
FIRST DUTY IS TO PROTECT THE
LIVES OF AMERICANS.
AND SO, HE IS DOING WHATEVER
PRESIDENT, DEMOCRAT OR
REPUBLICAN, DID DURING THE COLD
WAR.
THERE ARE NO GOOD CHOICES IN A
COLD WAR.
PRESIDENT BIDEN, LIKE EVERY
COLD WAR PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM,
IS MAKING SURE THAT THE UNITED
STATES DOES NOTHING TO PROVOKE
A NUCLEAR ATTACK BY VLADIMIR
PUTIN, WHO APPEARS TO BE THE
MOST UNHINGED COMMANDER OF A
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN
HISTORY.
>> PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY IS
CALLING AGAIN FOR A NO FLY ZONE
OVER UKRAINE, IS THAT SOMETHING
YOU HAVE GIVEN ANY THOUGHT TO
IT ALL?
>> AGAIN, THE REASON WHY THAT
IS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED, THE
PRESIDENT HASN'T BEEN WILLING
TO TAKE, WE HAVE BEEN
INTERESTED TO TAKING, IS
BECAUSE NO-FLY ZONE REQUIRE
SUPPLEMENTATION.
IT REQUIRES, ESSENTIALLY, THE
U.S. MILITARY SHOOTING DOWN
RUSSIAN PLANES, AND CAUSING,
PROMPTING A DIRECT WAR WITH
RUSSIA.
SOMETHING, THE EXACT STEP THAT
WE WANT TO AVOID.
>> NO NUCLEAR POWER HAS EVER
FIRED A SHOT AT ANOTHER NUCLEAR
POWER.
NEVER.
NOT ONE SHOT.
AND IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
NOW.
AND SO, NO AMERICAN PILOTS OR
NATO PILOTS WILL GO INTO THE
AIR OVER UKRAINE TO ENFORCE A
NO FLY ZONE BY SHOOTING DOWN
RUSSIAN PILOTS, BECAUSE THAT IS
HOW YOU ENFORCE THE NO FLY ZONE,
AND BECAUSE THAT WOULD RISK
NUCLEAR WAR.
A RISK, THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, CAN NEVER TAKE.
NUCLEAR WAR IS THE ONE KIND OF
WAR THAT YOU WOULD NOT BE ABLE
TO WATCH ON TV, BECAUSE NEW
YORK CITY WOULD BE TARGETED IN
A NUCLEAR EXCHANGE.
AS WITH WASHINGTON DC, AND MANY
OTHER MAJOR CITIES, SO PEOPLE
IN BUILDINGS LIKE THIS ONE, WHO
DELIVER YOUR TV NEWS WOULDN'T
BE HERE ANYMORE.
AND YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE
HERE ANYMORE, EITHER.
IF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO
HAVE LIVED THROUGH THE SOUL