Video: 'President Gerald Ford - Remarks at Tulane University'

(Wednesday, April 23, 1975, 8:07 p.m. CST; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Speaking to an audience of students at Tulane University in New Orleans, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that “Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by re-fighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.”

Earlier in the day, the U.S. Senate had voted 75-17 to approve $250 million in humanitarian aid and use of U.S. troops to evacuate South Vietnam, but declined to take up Ford’s request for any further military aid.

Video: 'Address at a Tulane University Convocation (April 23, 1975)'

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