Ed Helms
speaker
9,154 appearances
78 recordings
18 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 16 Sep
Ed Helms’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Two days after these news reports, half a million Americans marched in Washington.
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It was the largest anti-war protest in history.
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Here's Betty Metzger.
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When she was a young reporter in Philly, she sometimes covered the peace movement.
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But despite the massive protests, the administration just wasn't interested.
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Like, not even a bit.
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While half a million Americans marched in protest right outside the White House, President Nixon sat inside and watched a football game on TV.
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People like John and Bonnie had seen firsthand how protests can affect change.
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But as the war dragged on, even they had to acknowledge a sobering truth.
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Marching and demonstrating didn't seem like it was going to stop this war.
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Here's John.
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Nixon later wrote in his memoirs that these protests, quote, destroyed whatever small possibility may still have existed of ending the war in nineteen sixty-nine, which makes about as much sense as smoking six packs a day and then blaming your emphysema on the doctor who told you to quit.
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Whoever's fault it was, and I happen to blame the commander in chief of the United States military, but that's just me, the war did not end in nineteen sixty nine.
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Instead, as the year came to a close, Nixon drafted a whole new generation of men into the military to kill and be killed in Vietnam.
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Christmas time, 1969, every family that included a draft-eligible young man crowded around their television set.
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Teenagers, just barely men, perched on the edge of their living room sofas, nervously bouncing their knees and drumming their fingers.
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Their parents hovered as the lottery unfolded.
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On the TV, representatives in stiff suits reached their arms into a fishbowl of blue plastic capsules, and the young men at home prayed their birthdays wouldn't be called.
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John and Bonnie's activism was about to get hardcore.
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Their pursuit of civil disobedience brought them into contact with the Catholic Peace Movement.
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