WEBVTT - Generated by https://sindresorhus.com/aiko 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.040 Hello, it's me. 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:04.360 So Phyllis, thank you for the first part. 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:05.560 No, that's not it. 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:35.520 I'm going to be doing a little bit of a research. 00:00:35.520 --> 00:01:04.640 Hello. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:09.720 I think that's the first time in years I've ever let the intro play all the way through 00:01:09.720 --> 00:01:10.720 for a, what was that, a minute? 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:13.720 I don't know how long that is. 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:20.640 That was the original Yeast, not the original, but maybe the second or third Yeast radio 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:30.840 song by Mr. Taylor E. Ross, my contractor. 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:34.640 So I have something for you. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.240 Yeah, I'm still doing the show, I don't know why, but sorry. 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:47.280 But the thing is, I am trying, with this Luigi Mangione, and I still don't know if he's related 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:54.200 to Chuck, with him, there was this business with the murderer, the healthcare CEO from 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.280 the United Healthcares. 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:03.760 Now what I was thinking is, everybody loves to bitch on social media, including me, but 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:10.280 what an opportunity now we have to actually do something about it. 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:15.640 Now that there's this national conversation, even though it's probably over, but everybody's 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:22.080 focused on Luigi and making him kind of kitschy and kind of Che Guevara-ish, and I'm a little 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:26.880 disappointed because I feel like we've lost the point. 00:02:26.880 --> 00:02:31.840 It's almost become, at first, people were really pissed about healthcare, which is why 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:38.740 they were cheering him, and now I just feel like, I guess what I'm trying to say is social 00:02:38.740 --> 00:02:43.740 media seems to be about bitching and moaning and very little action, and I'm trying to, 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:49.160 so I have this project I'm trying, it's called Healthcare Horror Stories, and I'm gonna play 00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:54.600 an interview I recorded with a woman who found me on TikTok named Phyllis, and she tells 00:02:54.600 --> 00:03:00.680 her story of the trauma that United Healthcare put her through, and I just want to collect 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:05.440 stories like this and share them with people so that we can kind of see what's going on 00:03:05.440 --> 00:03:13.360 with healthcare so that people can understand the real impact this has on everyday people. 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:18.520 The problem I'm having is I haven't even gotten anybody else, and I had a TikTok that was 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:24.520 shown to like 23,000 people talking about the Luigi business, and people love to complain, 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:27.520 and a bunch of people said, oh you should, we really need to share our stories, we need 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:32.160 to share our stories, but only one person so far, Phyllis, is actually willing to do 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:40.660 it, so I really hope, if any of you know how I can know of people that have horror stories 00:03:40.660 --> 00:03:47.280 due to insurance situations like this, please send them my way, magicyeastradio.com, I really 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:51.880 want to get this going, I don't want to give up on this, I've been trying to do something 00:03:51.880 --> 00:03:57.000 about healthcare for years, and it's just so, it's always been frustrating, nothing's 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:02.840 really, I just feel like it's really hard to break through the, certainly right now 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:07.440 it's hard to get through the algos, because the algos want everybody to fight and complain, 00:04:07.440 --> 00:04:14.720 but when it comes to actions, they don't really encourage action, and even my videos, when 00:04:14.720 --> 00:04:20.960 I post them, like this one I'm about to play, when I posted it on, if I say like a one thing 00:04:20.960 --> 00:04:28.840 blurb about a zinger about Luigi or UnitedHealthcare, that'll get some traction, but when I actually 00:04:28.840 --> 00:04:34.760 have some calls to action, they just seem to maybe get 300 views and that's it, so, 00:04:34.760 --> 00:04:38.920 I don't know, I'm so frustrated, you know, this is why it's really hard for me to keep 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:45.080 going with this stuff, because I know I could make a video about, you know, not my vagina, 00:04:45.080 --> 00:04:50.640 but somebody shaking their vagina, or if I post a picture of my face with, you know, 00:04:50.640 --> 00:04:55.840 some bad mask, you know, allowing the, you know, where my hair looks all jagged and cutting 00:04:55.840 --> 00:05:01.480 into the background, and posted pictures of Justin Bieber's, you know, micropenis, you 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:08.000 know, that would do well, but I don't know, people are kind of like, I think it's manipulation, 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:15.560 I think people are just being controlled by these algorithms that say, oh, let's get kitschy, 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:21.040 you know, let's get kitschy, let's all focus on the same silly things that make us laugh, 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.880 and then let's get angry about the same things, like Elon Musk controlling Trump, but let's 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:31.500 not actually have any, let's not promote any calls to action that encourages people to 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:37.600 take action, so we're just mad and nothing's being done, it's just awful, it's like with 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:46.560 the climate, it's just, I heard some podcast yesterday, was it the Daily, maybe, when they're 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:51.400 just like interviewing some dude from New Orleans, he's like, well, New Orleans understands 00:05:51.400 --> 00:05:57.080 that civilizations go extinct, and that they don't last long, so we accept the fact that 00:05:57.080 --> 00:06:00.160 New Orleans will be gone someday, and the rest of the world needs to understand that 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:07.260 it's gonna be gone, we're just giving up on fighting climate change because, you know, 00:06:07.260 --> 00:06:12.760 because we're just gonna give up, yeah, fuck it, let's just go extinct because we don't 00:06:12.760 --> 00:06:17.400 wanna take action, we'd just rather be miserable and bitchy, you know, we have kids, but fuck 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:24.360 them, let them drown and, you know, and die of starvation and pandemics because we're 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:29.240 just too fucking lazy to do anything, we're just frozen, we're just awful, we're just 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:37.080 not gonna challenge the way our evolutionary thus-and-sos made us, these creatures that 00:06:37.080 --> 00:06:41.080 only care about today, we're not gonna try and push ourselves, we're just gonna go ahead 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:49.600 and go extinct, because it's too hard to just, you know, change consumption, it's all like 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:50.600 that. 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.720 Anyway, I know that's very encouraging, right? 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:56.760 But I'm going to just play this interview I did, I'm sorry the sound quality's not good, 00:06:56.760 --> 00:07:06.320 I was using this app called Squadcast, and it stinks, and I ended up losing, like, the 00:07:06.320 --> 00:07:12.320 higher quality audio and video, but it keeps a backup, but the backup is shitty, so, but, 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:21.160 you know, just enjoy it, enjoy this story about healthcare, you know, and maybe it's 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:25.840 kind of boring and redundant, but I really think it's important that we really feel each 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:32.940 other's, you know, what we're going through, and please help me find other people for this, 00:07:32.940 --> 00:07:36.080 because I can't, I'm not, you know, I know a lot of people want me to keep going with 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:41.800 this show, but I've got to evolve, I can't just talk about my vagina all day, I'm not 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:45.520 gonna do prank phone calls anymore, I mean, this is what I want to do, I need people to, 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:51.600 I need people to help me, it's two-way street here, you know? 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:59.520 Let's do something to make the situation better, otherwise what's the fucking point? 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:00.520 Here's Phyllis. 00:08:00.520 --> 00:08:05.320 Wait a second, sorry, I forgot something, because I want to tell you, if you can find 00:08:05.320 --> 00:08:08.320 somebody, what is this weird echo I'm getting in my head? 00:08:08.320 --> 00:08:14.560 Oh, I know what it is, it's because I'm doing the thus with the so, hold on, the thus with 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:18.120 the so, the phone, see, I'm gonna turn it on, that's better, right? 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:19.800 I bet that's better, yeah? 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:28.160 That was my echo, the jean, the jean, you know, oh, so, if you want to help me, if you 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.600 know of somebody that wants to participate, just email me, madge at yeast radio dot com, 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:38.600 madge at yeast radio dot com, or call me, Faramuterus, follow me on tic-tac Instagram, 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:44.720 did I say tic-tac, tic-tac Instagram blue sky, it's all Madge Weinstein, yeah, no periods 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:53.840 anymore, no space, none of that, get her done, get her done, get her done, yeah, so, oh yeah, 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:59.520 here's Phyllis, and I might play something afterwards, I don't know, I started to watch 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:04.880 the Maria Callas movie with Angelina Jolie yesterday, I couldn't get past ten minutes 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:09.560 with those lips, that's just, all I see is Angelina Jolie, I don't see Maria Callas, 00:09:09.560 --> 00:09:14.600 I'm sorry, all I see is a star who wanted people to see her on location in Paris making 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:19.960 a film, honestly, I think she's awful, that movie's awful too, like, you know this wonderful 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.720 artist, and you're just gonna show her for her last week of life, and that's it, when 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.720 she was at her worst, and then she died, why don't you show her when she started her career 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:32.120 and became a wonderful cola-retourer, right, but now, gotta be bitchy and miserable, make 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.440 it dark and horrible like everything else in the fucking world, anyway, here's wonderful 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:37.440 Phyllis. 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:42.000 So, Phyllis, thank you, you're the first person who agreed to do this, so, why don't you go 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.800 ahead and just tell us what happened, and go from there. 00:09:45.800 --> 00:09:48.000 How gory do you want? 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:52.280 As much as you want, whatever you think is necessary to tell the story, I just want to 00:09:52.280 --> 00:09:56.920 put that out there so people can get an idea for what people have to go through and deal 00:09:56.920 --> 00:10:01.080 with this, and why people are so frustrated and not particularly upset to see something 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.720 like Brian Thompson's demise. 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:10.680 No, okay, I'll begin by saying that I was in my mid-forties, and I started having issues 00:10:10.680 --> 00:10:20.040 after yearly visits to my gynecologist, I started having excessive heavy periods with 00:10:20.040 --> 00:10:25.600 a lot of cramping, and pretty miserable for that time of the month, it just increased 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:34.040 as I got older in my late forties, and my OBGYN and I started talking about a plan of 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:43.760 treatment for care, and it was in 2017, and she thought we should get approval for a full 00:10:43.760 --> 00:10:50.220 hysterectomy at that time, and they denied it several times, UnitedHealthcare specifically 00:10:50.220 --> 00:10:56.980 denied it, and requested a plan of treatment that included what's called an ablation, so 00:10:56.980 --> 00:11:02.840 that's kind of gross, because you're fully sedated, you're under the doctor's care, and 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:12.680 she was scraping the entire lining of my uterus, and what I had was fibrous tumors in my uterus, 00:11:12.680 --> 00:11:18.120 for lack of a better term, the first ablation, she got as much as she could of that uterine 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:24.100 lining, and it helped for maybe a month or two, and then it only got worse from there, 00:11:24.100 --> 00:11:31.040 that was in 2017, so I started having really frequent periods, and extremely heavy, and 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:36.720 within about eight to ten months, I was back at the OBGYN, well, I was consistently seeing 00:11:36.720 --> 00:11:41.080 her about every two or three months, so I was back with her, and she said, we've done 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:46.280 what they've requested, they requested limited care, which was the ablation, to see if it 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:52.800 would help, and it did not, so then we started that process of getting a hysterectomy approved, 00:11:52.800 --> 00:11:59.880 and that was an act of ridiculousness for the first, I believe, three to four months, 00:11:59.880 --> 00:12:06.280 her first request was denied, and she was persistent, as was I, and full disclosure, 00:12:06.280 --> 00:12:11.560 I actually worked for an insurer in Portland, Oregon, I used to work for Moda Health and 00:12:11.560 --> 00:12:17.660 Customer Service for a year, so I knew the whole healthcare game, and they denied it, 00:12:17.660 --> 00:12:20.600 I believe three times, every month, they denied it. 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:21.600 What was the reason? 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:26.360 They said it wasn't medically necessary, that we hadn't taken all the steps that they'd 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.320 requested, and it was probably just up to a three-person medical team in some office 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:37.240 saying, no, try some more, and we were at our wit's end, and so I just decided to write 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:44.680 them just my response to their constant denials, and I put it very blatantly, how difficult 00:12:44.680 --> 00:12:50.620 my periods were, what I was struggling with, how many feminine care products I was going 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:58.380 through in seven weeks' time, how I was having two periods a month, and out of real regular 00:12:58.380 --> 00:13:05.160 life for four days a month, and I just was as vulgar or just as crass as possible, and 00:13:05.160 --> 00:13:11.240 I had faxed it, and emailed it, and then within, I think, maybe two or three days, I had gone 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.920 back to the doctor, and she found out before I did, and she said, I don't know what you 00:13:15.920 --> 00:13:22.060 did or what you said, but it worked, and they approved your hysterectomy, and we thought 00:13:22.060 --> 00:13:28.980 we hit the lottery, so within days, and it had a 90-day time period, so she, within days, 00:13:28.980 --> 00:13:35.440 we scheduled, you know, to have a full hysterectomy or just leaving ovaries, so then it was great. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:39.540 She did an amazing job, full anesthesia, I was in the hospital for one night. 00:13:39.540 --> 00:13:45.840 These are care providers, anesthesiologists, surgeons' assistants, the hospital bill, the 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:52.380 whole nine yards, and within a month of my surgery, I started getting letters from United 00:13:52.380 --> 00:14:00.760 Healthcare that they had reversed their approval, and that it was no longer approved, and my 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:07.400 doctor's office and I had to start the long process of showing to them how you had medically 00:14:07.400 --> 00:14:15.600 approved this, I had two approval codes, which I think is ultimately what happened in the 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:21.840 beginning, because I think maybe some desk jockey or someone at a low-level appeals coverage, 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.840 I think that they saw that there were two appeals that had been won, and I think they 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:32.520 canceled them both out by mistake, I don't know, but no amount of calls, no amount of 00:14:32.520 --> 00:14:39.760 reasoning with the doctor's office or me, and what's ironic is that UnitedHealth fully 00:14:39.760 --> 00:14:46.320 reimbursed the hospital, they fully reimbursed the anesthesiologist, and every other associated 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:54.760 cost except the doctor's surgeon fee, and she had an assistant doctor, so there's two, 00:14:54.760 --> 00:15:02.000 and it was $5,000, $24.98 each, and they denied it every month. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:08.760 And then in the insurance industry, it's called timely filing, and within about a year, that's 00:15:08.760 --> 00:15:15.320 when they have time to file claims, and anything after, they'll start just automatically denying 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:20.240 anyway, but they just routinely denied it, and at that time in my life, I was really 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:27.640 struggling because I had two parents that were elderly, and I had just gotten one into 00:15:27.640 --> 00:15:35.480 the care facility, and I had another, I had my stepdad just blown off the rails, and had 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:42.440 just focused all my energy on taking care of my older generation parents, and just totally 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:47.560 dropped the ball on it, and it went to collections, the doctor sold it to collections, I think 00:15:47.560 --> 00:15:56.800 just barely over a year, and within days of sending it to collections, they sued me, or 00:15:56.800 --> 00:16:04.720 they took me to small claims court, and I was in the middle of a trust issue legally 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:12.120 with my parents' trust, and I completely, because it was within just a matter of a few 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:19.480 months, and I just dropped the ball, and when I saw the court filings that the collection 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:24.680 agency had done, I just mistakenly assumed it was involving my parents' trust, because 00:16:24.680 --> 00:16:30.000 I had a lot of legal stuff going on with that, and dropped the ball, and so I obviously did 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:35.680 not, I didn't answer the suit, and I didn't go to court, because I didn't realize I had 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:41.680 a court date, and I lost because I was not there, and it's now attached to our home, 00:16:41.680 --> 00:16:47.960 and that was in 2019, because I'd had it done in 2018, and within just a short period of 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:53.640 time, it went to collections and court, and we hired a lawyer two years ago to address 00:16:53.640 --> 00:17:00.640 the issue, and reach out to the collections agency, because I have all the documentation, 00:17:00.640 --> 00:17:04.960 and it was just such a, we all know they paid pennies on the dollar, and we offered them 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:11.400 what we thought was reasonable, and they said no, so I still have it, and our lawyer recommended 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:17.260 that we sue the collection agency and small court here in Oregon, and it's just something 00:17:17.260 --> 00:17:23.800 on my to-do list, but it's always there, they dicked around for a long time with even taking 00:17:23.800 --> 00:17:28.840 care of my ablation, because my doctor started off requesting a hysterectomy, and then they, 00:17:28.840 --> 00:17:34.640 it was a time period of about a year and a half, and the interesting information was 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:39.280 when they do the surgery, they take all the stuff, and send it off to the lab, and she 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:44.280 said I'd had one of the worst cases of uterine fibroids that she'd ever seen, so even with 00:17:44.280 --> 00:17:50.360 all that medical information, they still said it was unnecessary, and also in their letter, 00:17:50.360 --> 00:17:57.760 they said that I didn't take it, that my doctor didn't do it at a day surgery facility, that 00:17:57.760 --> 00:18:02.900 she did it at a hospital, so evidently, I was to have used, I don't know, the McDonald's 00:18:02.900 --> 00:18:11.800 of healthcare, and just go to an In-N-Out to have a full hysterectomy, so I'm not really, 00:18:11.800 --> 00:18:17.380 their reasons changed a few times, and it's still fine, because I have all the paperwork, 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:23.520 and it'll be a fun deal, but UnitedHealthcare could not be worse, in my opinion, and I have 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:24.800 zero sympathy. 00:18:24.800 --> 00:18:29.520 So the ablation, or ablation, I don't know that word, but that was, ablation, that was 00:18:29.520 --> 00:18:35.680 not your doctor's idea, that was done because the insurance company told them to do it, 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.460 so who, do you know, because you said you worked in insurance, who is it in an insurance 00:18:39.460 --> 00:18:43.040 company that makes these decisions, do they have doctors on staff, how does that work, 00:18:43.040 --> 00:18:44.040 do you know? 00:18:44.040 --> 00:18:47.640 It's funny, because I worked, well I was in medical customer service for Moda Health, 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:54.480 so I worked right next to the department that was getting pre-approvals and pre-auths, and 00:18:54.480 --> 00:19:01.340 I will share truthfully that, in my opinion, it was just people, just ordinary people, 00:19:01.340 --> 00:19:06.720 they didn't have any medical, my belief is that they didn't have a whole lot of medical 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:10.520 background, that they were just in the job, because they'd been in the job for several 00:19:10.520 --> 00:19:16.760 years, and I think, let's see, they probably maybe had eight to ten of them, and I honestly, 00:19:16.760 --> 00:19:24.200 at this time now, I believe that they appeal everything, like they deny everything, nothing 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:29.480 goes straight through the first time, because if you can just deny it, and then force people 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:35.120 to pay the bills, you're going to do it, they're going to do it, where I was, it was denied 00:19:35.120 --> 00:19:40.560 in that small appellate place with Deaths Rockies, then it went up to, they called it 00:19:40.560 --> 00:19:47.880 a medical board, but it only, it probably included a few doctors, and maybe some nurses, 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:52.680 and then executives, it just depended who would appeal stuff, also when I was taking 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:57.360 calls, all calls were recorded, and if you misstated a claim, or you misstated benefits, 00:19:57.360 --> 00:19:58.640 would keep those recordings. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:04.680 I wanted to ask about your comment in the email, because what you wrote is, I feel nothing 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:10.280 for this man, he didn't get his assassination preauthorized, so the police and health system 00:20:10.280 --> 00:20:15.160 should pay zero, deny coverage, would you like to expand on that, how do you process 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:19.120 this whole thing, especially now that the guy's gotten arrested, some people are saying 00:20:19.120 --> 00:20:23.480 we're not allowed to be upset, that somehow we're condoning murder, because we're upset, 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.240 we're frustrated with the system, how do you react to that? 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:34.240 My response is, I thousand percent still think what I wrote, in my comment, and the reason, 00:20:34.240 --> 00:20:39.760 in my opinion, is that, I think Bernie Sanders is really working on this, and our Senator 00:20:39.760 --> 00:20:45.480 Ron Wyden has always been on board with better health care for all, you know, when you're 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:50.400 in the, when you're in a surgery, I mean, I, when I worked in medical customer service, 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:55.620 it would happen quite frequently that, oh, you'd get a Sutton bill because the anesthesiologist 00:20:55.620 --> 00:20:59.400 wasn't covered, and you didn't check your network coverage, and you didn't make sure 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:04.640 that everybody on the team was in network, and so you'd be faced with a large bill that 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:11.160 was unexpected, and sucks to be you, so I think that the media is covering his passing, 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:17.480 which I do feel bad for his family, I feel terrible for them, also, I feel terrible for 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:23.400 the millions of Americans that UnitedHealthcare screwed, and they've either screwed them by 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:30.520 denying claims, or not, just not acting when medically necessary, there's thousands of 00:21:30.520 --> 00:21:35.920 horror stories on TikTok about people that surgeries got held up, or cancer treatment 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:41.320 wasn't paid, or prescriptions weren't paid fairly, which I can also speak to that, because 00:21:41.320 --> 00:21:45.680 that happened to me, I was a pain patient due to a back surgery that I'd had in 2010, 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:52.200 so that's a UHC healthcare nightmare, but I think that UnitedHealthcare has, they have, 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:58.960 it's one time too many, like a bridge too far, and I'm not saying he deserved it, but 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:04.760 I don't care, I don't care, and I think a lot of other Americans have had long background 00:22:04.760 --> 00:22:13.480 of health insurers treating you so terribly, and gosh, let's spread it out to pharmacists, 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:17.600 medical people, doctors that don't listen to you, I can't even tell you how hard it 00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:22.760 was just to get my doctor to listen to me, you go in and you say, oh, I have period pain, 00:22:22.760 --> 00:22:26.960 and I'm really struggling, it probably took about two years to get her to listen to me, 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:33.800 and to get her to actually take action, so with the coverage that I see, but I don't, 00:22:33.800 --> 00:22:38.840 I will be, to be fair, I'm not watching any, I don't watch CNN anymore, I don't watch MSNBC, 00:22:38.840 --> 00:22:45.360 I'm not really watching any news, so I think I read about it on my Apple News, felt nothing, 00:22:45.360 --> 00:22:50.040 I, yeah, it's true, yeah, he, well, he didn't take the time to get it pre-authorized, so, 00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:56.760 and they do that to people all the time, and I'm not saying Trump out is fair play, but 00:22:56.760 --> 00:23:01.880 boy, it really, really sucks to be you right now, and, because it's really sad that I think 00:23:01.880 --> 00:23:07.680 people vote against their own interests, as far as their congressional people and their 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:14.800 senators, and there are still states that haven't accepted the Obamacare ACA expansion, 00:23:14.800 --> 00:23:19.040 and when I was in medical customer service, it was, I'm dating myself, but it was 2010, 00:23:19.040 --> 00:23:24.360 and that was the year that the ACA came out, and I would get calls from people who said, 00:23:24.360 --> 00:23:30.600 I don't want Obamacare, I don't want that to affect my plan, and I said, you, frequently, 00:23:30.600 --> 00:23:36.520 you're calling the wrong person, you need to call your congressperson, this is already 00:23:36.520 --> 00:23:41.200 legislation that we have to enact, and feel free, if you want to, go ahead and pay in 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:49.120 full for your yearly exam, and your mammograms, and your prostate check, just write them a 00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:54.440 check in full, because that's what the ACA gives you right now, and it insured kids up 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:59.160 to 26 years old, which is amazing, and then they couldn't use pre-existing conditions 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:03.600 against you to deny you service, but it could have done so much more, back when Hillary 00:24:03.600 --> 00:24:09.080 Clinton was the first lady in 93, her husband Bill Clinton, the president, put her in charge 00:24:09.080 --> 00:24:13.920 of solving healthcare, and she almost did, and she could have, and there was so much 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:19.520 cynicism on the opposite side of the aisle, that it failed, and it's failed miserably 00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:24.520 for decades for Americans, and I remember the public option was on until Lieberman killed 00:24:24.520 --> 00:24:28.680 it, and then he became a Republican after that, right, so I think this is, wow, what 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:33.800 are we talking about, 30 plus years in the making, and just cynicism is at an all time 00:24:33.800 --> 00:24:38.920 high, and it's gonna be even worse, but yeah, I'm like, how unfortunate for you to just 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:40.920 be walking in the street and get assassinated. 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:46.280 Yeah, I just wanna keep the momentum, because these news cycles tend to be very short, and 00:24:46.280 --> 00:24:50.640 I think we have to tell these stories to keep the momentum, because people can't forget 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:54.640 about it, and I hear these pundits on the news saying, oh, it's not gonna do anything 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:59.560 if a murder isn't gonna do anything, but I say, let's not let this guy die in vain, right, 00:24:59.560 --> 00:25:04.720 let's have his death mean something, and because, yeah, it's already doing something, the fact 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.800 that it's causing a national dialogue, but it shouldn't be that way, and the fact that 00:25:08.800 --> 00:25:13.280 it takes murder for this to happen means the system is demented. 00:25:13.280 --> 00:25:17.480 People do call it congressman, I have, many times, I've been screaming for Medicare for 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:22.840 all for 20 years, the system is too powerful, so that's what happens, it breaks, and people 00:25:22.840 --> 00:25:27.320 commit violence, so if you wanna stop the violence, do something about the healthcare, 00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:28.320 I think. 00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:32.080 My husband and I were both on TikTok, I got him addicted. 00:25:32.080 --> 00:25:37.720 We were just discussing how the French Revolution started, because people were so poor and couldn't 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:43.560 afford their basic needs, and if our country isn't as close to that as they were at that 00:25:43.560 --> 00:25:47.240 time, I don't think there's ever been a time when we're like this, so. 00:25:47.240 --> 00:25:48.240 Absolutely. 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.960 It's an unresolved issue, and people deserve better. 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:52.600 Was this employer insurance you had? 00:25:52.600 --> 00:25:58.560 Yeah, oh, it was really great, too, because several times, when we had UnitedHealthcare, 00:25:58.560 --> 00:26:04.280 my husband and I worked for the same company, and at that time, here's a little other inside 00:26:04.280 --> 00:26:09.080 information, at that time, healthcare, I used to work for Boyd Coffee Company, and as did 00:26:09.080 --> 00:26:14.960 my husband, and they were called self-insured, so self-insured, so what they did is they 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:21.240 just put in a large pot of money, and then they paid UnitedHealthcare to adjudicate and 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:29.000 just pay claims or take care of claims, but it was run by the company, our company, and 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:36.520 they could be the ones to, I feel like there were C-suite, is that the C-suite executives, 00:26:36.520 --> 00:26:42.320 that could have very easily said, oh, that's not gonna happen, or that's not gonna happen, 00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:47.560 because they were just a third-party administrator for our benefits at that time, and we were 00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:51.880 double-covered, so it should have been the coup de grace, like we had everything available, 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:52.880 and we really didn't. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:55.520 Yeah, I was working up until my 50s. 00:26:55.520 --> 00:26:59.360 I didn't know that they could deny something after it was approved and already the surgery 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:02.440 is completed, but how does that even happen? 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:07.280 What was the reason for, is that legal to reverse an approval after the surgery, and 00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:09.240 why is that happening? 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:19.800 I really, honestly think it was either a big clerical error issue or a total, I mean, I'm 00:27:19.800 --> 00:27:25.600 sort of cynical, because John Grisham, that one book that they just deny everything, I 00:27:25.600 --> 00:27:31.680 think it was either A or B, just going back on the coverage, but I mean, for me, they 00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:36.760 oddly paid the hospital and some of the other bills, but not the doctor, so I don't know. 00:27:36.760 --> 00:27:42.800 I think I'm cynical enough to believe that they denied, and the weakest link is the doctor, 00:27:42.800 --> 00:27:49.780 because the doctor has to, they pay contracted rates to get adjudicated, to get payment, 00:27:49.780 --> 00:27:55.480 and they get a portion of the dollar for contracted rates, and insurance companies constantly 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.760 lower and renegotiate and screw them out of everything. 00:27:59.760 --> 00:28:03.720 The doctor's kind of the weakest link, which is awful, because they should be the top of 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:08.960 the food chain, but they reimbursed the hospital, they reimbursed the anesthesiologist, and 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:14.240 they took out the person that was easiest, and that was the doctor and myself, and it 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.160 doesn't seem to be illegal, because they do it all the time. 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:18.160 Yeah. 00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.840 For me, I just want to get across the fact that they're doing this to people with top-tier 00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:27.480 coverage who work full-time, not that people with Medicare should get any worse coverage, 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.160 they shouldn't, but this is top-of-the-line coverage. 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:32.120 This is happening to everybody. 00:28:32.120 --> 00:28:36.440 When Europeans hear about this, they're like, somebody, a few people were saying, just boycott 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:37.440 the insurance companies. 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:38.440 We can't do that. 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:39.440 There's only four of them. 00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.680 You can't, that's like boycotting your own health. 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:43.240 We don't have that leverage. 00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:48.680 If only we could, if it were that simple that we could boycott our health insurance, I think 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:50.200 everybody probably would. 00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:54.940 And it may very well be illegal, but they're so powerful, these insurance companies that, 00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:57.880 and they're being funded by taxpayers. 00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:59.960 The subsidies are huge to the companies. 00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.960 Right. 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:06.160 You know, the lobbyists in Washington, there's a little background information for you. 00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:09.680 So I was a lifelong volunteer for the PTA. 00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:14.720 So I was a national advocate for children and I'm from Oregon. 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:22.160 And every year, two of us would go to a national conference of, for all the PTAs and represent 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:23.160 their state. 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:24.960 And then one year I loved legislation. 00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:29.860 I loved, I just loved anything to do with Congress and the Senate. 00:29:29.860 --> 00:29:33.040 And so I was the legislative aide that got to go to Washington. 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:39.720 And we were actually fighting at that time, that was in 2006, we were fighting for, at 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:44.660 that time they were funding education at 2.2 cents per dollar. 00:29:44.660 --> 00:29:49.040 And we were on a campaign to boost that up to five cents. 00:29:49.040 --> 00:29:55.720 So we wore big little nickels and we met with all of our Congress people and senators and 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:59.440 we had, we did everything that we felt we could. 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:06.180 And one of our, one of our Congress people that we spoke with just implied and told us 00:30:06.180 --> 00:30:07.180 the truth. 00:30:07.180 --> 00:30:11.760 I hate to tell you this, but you're, you're really wasting your time because we, this 00:30:11.760 --> 00:30:17.480 whole place, that whole place is run on the lobbyists that are two less than two blocks 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:23.320 away and are paid to entertain them and buy their votes. 00:30:23.320 --> 00:30:29.600 And the normal people have very little chance of actually connecting with their Congress 00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:34.320 person and getting legislation or getting or effecting legislation. 00:30:34.320 --> 00:30:37.740 And at that time, I don't know if you remember who David Wu is. 00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:40.900 He was our state, one of our state representatives. 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:47.760 And he said, if we had a flood of people contact us, I would consider bringing a story to the 00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:51.920 floor of Congress and talking about it on behalf of my constituents. 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:53.760 And I asked him, well, what's a flood? 00:30:53.760 --> 00:30:54.760 I mean, define a flood. 00:30:54.760 --> 00:30:57.560 So in my mind, I'm thinking thousands of people. 00:30:57.560 --> 00:31:01.880 And he said, maybe 11 or 12 people. 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:03.240 We were all like, what the fuck? 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:09.520 I mean, are you serious that it's that little representation, but then they still effectively 00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:15.760 do nothing because they spend most of their day on the phone to their corporate lobbyists 00:31:15.760 --> 00:31:17.120 and people and fundraising. 00:31:17.120 --> 00:31:19.680 They spend more time fundraising than they do actually legislating. 00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.680 Bernie Sanders is right. 00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:27.320 We need to change how they're funded, how insurance companies are now being taken care 00:31:27.320 --> 00:31:28.680 of and adjudicated. 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:33.040 And now to even read that it gets worse because one part of the media that I am reading is 00:31:33.040 --> 00:31:38.800 that UnitedHealthcare has not only bought Big Pharma, they've gotten a lot of Big Pharma 00:31:38.800 --> 00:31:40.400 companies now under their wing. 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.680 They're buying nursing homes. 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:45.480 They're buying end of life care and small hospitals. 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:49.480 So they're just going to be a one stop shop for really shitty care. 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:51.400 Basically for profit communism. 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.120 Actually, I think that's their plan. 00:31:53.120 --> 00:31:58.840 I think they're just like the Federalist Society and they had a 50 year plan. 00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:03.760 And I think it was in the Reagan administration when they took all the small hospitals and 00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:09.880 cut them, just got rid of them and just removed them from everywhere and shut them down in 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:11.560 small towns. 00:32:11.560 --> 00:32:19.400 Then they started HMOs, managed care, and they have led us all to this big national 00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.000 slaughter that we're now dealing with. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:26.760 And they're going to be so big, people have no chance of getting decent care. 00:32:26.760 --> 00:32:32.200 And that's one thing I was reading that this killer Luigi said that he said that UnitedHealthcare's 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:36.600 market cap has gone up steadily while the life expectancy of Americans has gone down. 00:32:36.600 --> 00:32:38.200 I mean, that's from the killer. 00:32:38.200 --> 00:32:40.320 You know, what are you going to do? 00:32:40.320 --> 00:32:44.480 But it is interesting that they, I did see that they've taken all the public pictures 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:49.160 of their CEOs offline and just put them mid-level managers on there. 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:53.720 So yeah, they think that's the solution is more security, not change policy, just more 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.720 security. 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:56.480 Cause that's what do you think should happen? 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:01.680 Like, what do you see if you could picture a future that makes this situation better? 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:03.240 What are you imagining? 00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:08.880 I think legislatively they need to do with healthcare, what they did to the phone companies. 00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:14.200 They took AT&T and they broke them up because it was a monopoly. 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.080 I don't think they'll do it to themselves. 00:33:16.080 --> 00:33:17.080 Yeah. 00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:18.360 For me, it's gotta be Medicare for all. 00:33:18.360 --> 00:33:22.080 I don't know how to achieve it, especially with this upcoming administration. 00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:25.920 You know, if people make a big enough noise, something's going to improve. 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:26.920 Right. 00:33:26.920 --> 00:33:33.760 On TikTok, we abandoned Kellogg's for three months and I think some of it started to work. 00:33:33.760 --> 00:33:38.680 There was a couple of creators that showed some statistics that it actually sailed, they'd 00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.840 see stores where it was, it actually seemed to be working. 00:33:42.840 --> 00:33:48.520 And so I think collectively, if we use TikTok together, I think that we could start a pretty 00:33:48.520 --> 00:33:56.160 big crown campaign and force change, but they're looking at taking that away too, which is 00:33:56.160 --> 00:34:01.400 why they, that's why they don't, they, I think it isn't in January when they're going to 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:02.400 try and take that away. 00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.800 But only the Supreme court can save it at this point. 00:34:04.800 --> 00:34:11.080 We're going to be in a brand new phase together and it's not time to stop talking and reaching 00:34:11.080 --> 00:34:12.080 out to each other. 00:34:12.080 --> 00:34:13.080 So that's why I responded to your TikTok. 00:34:13.080 --> 00:34:15.160 Cause I'm like, Oh, I got a story. 00:34:15.160 --> 00:34:20.600 I didn't know how it compares to other people's stories because it's really in, in the game 00:34:20.600 --> 00:34:21.600 of life. 00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:28.200 It's about, it's going to probably cost us about $7,500, maybe $10,000 to solve. 00:34:28.200 --> 00:34:30.280 But it's also the torment. 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.840 It's the emotional, it's terrorism, you know, is you just take somebody and just torture 00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:36.840 them with this stuff. 00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:37.840 It's, it's terrorism. 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:41.040 You're terrorizing people and it's just, they did. 00:34:41.040 --> 00:34:47.680 I will say that collectively it made just everyday life and adding to the stress of 00:34:47.680 --> 00:34:53.640 life with everything else, parenting, parents, taking care of parents, being married, working. 00:34:53.640 --> 00:34:59.600 It made life pretty miserable and I'm sure that's what his family's going through and 00:34:59.600 --> 00:35:01.200 I don't fucking care. 00:35:01.200 --> 00:35:02.560 And you're a hardworking person. 00:35:02.560 --> 00:35:03.760 Your husband's a hardworking person. 00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:08.600 I just want to make it clear to people that hardworking people deserve free healthcare, 00:35:08.600 --> 00:35:09.840 just like the rest of the world. 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:10.840 You're right. 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.000 For, I don't know why Americans think that somehow we don't deserve it, but that's socialism. 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:16.980 Well, no, we deserve it. 00:35:16.980 --> 00:35:19.000 It's part of why we pay taxes. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.920 We're just getting ripped off because it's going to for-profit companies. 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:28.200 It's going to pay for billionaires, not us, but they're so uneducated because they say, 00:35:28.200 --> 00:35:29.960 oh, my tax dollars would go up. 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:34.600 No, they wouldn't because your tax dollars, if you were paying for it in taxes, you would 00:35:34.600 --> 00:35:36.960 be paying none in healthcare. 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.360 It's easy to show that math. 00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:39.360 It's easy. 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.480 But the good thing is that this situation, from what I understand, people across the 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:47.440 party lines are reacting in the same way. 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:50.120 Republicans are saying, yeah, this is bullshit too. 00:35:50.120 --> 00:35:54.080 They're like, yeah, fuck this whatever Brian Thompson guy with it. 00:35:54.080 --> 00:35:55.240 It's not just Democrats. 00:35:55.240 --> 00:36:00.200 So this is something where there really could be a change if it's bipartisan. 00:36:00.200 --> 00:36:02.240 They might have to listen to us. 00:36:02.240 --> 00:36:04.080 They might have to listen to us. 00:36:04.080 --> 00:36:05.080 I'm going to hope you're right. 00:36:05.080 --> 00:36:06.560 I'm kind of cynical. 00:36:06.560 --> 00:36:07.560 I am too. 00:36:07.560 --> 00:36:09.220 I was sure Kamala was going to win. 00:36:09.220 --> 00:36:10.220 So what do I do? 00:36:10.220 --> 00:36:14.900 You kind of always have to have hope and we all have collective hope. 00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:21.720 My cynicism outweighs that, but I, like I said, I did, I did help or try and film make 00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:23.720 with the Harris campaign and talk to everybody. 00:36:23.720 --> 00:36:25.500 So my hope is eternal too. 00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:27.480 So I'm going to, I'm going to join that club with you. 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:32.120 And well, I believe in common sense and common sense told me that there's no way more people 00:36:32.120 --> 00:36:36.400 would vote for him now than in 2020 when he lost after he's a felon and all this crap. 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.160 Like, but what do I know again? 00:36:38.160 --> 00:36:39.160 So who knows? 00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:42.120 But yeah, maybe people will figure it out with this, with this thing. 00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:43.880 I don't know. 00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:44.880 I agree. 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:46.640 Well, thank you very much, Phyllis. 00:36:46.640 --> 00:36:48.200 I really appreciate it. 00:36:48.200 --> 00:36:55.840 You're so very well, take care. 00:36:55.840 --> 00:37:01.520 The judge can drop dead in his black robes. 00:37:01.520 --> 00:37:04.000 We will not call off the strike. 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.000 We're going to burn. 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.000 We're going to shoot. 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:07.000 We're going to fight. 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.000 We're going to kick. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.000 We're going to bite. 00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.000 You know what I'm saying? 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:11.000 We're going to be like a woman if that's the way he wants to be. 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.000 It's going to be burned. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:13.000 It's going to be burned. 00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:14.000 Hey, this whole city is going to be burned. 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:15.000 Black lives matter. 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:16.000 Black lives matter. 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:17.000 Black lives matter. 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.000 Black lives matter. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:30.400 Throughout these 37 days, there has been continued violence against the people of South Vietnam. 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.400 We're getting a lot of casualties. I need help. I got two elements cut off. 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.360 I love my president, but I love my country more. 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:44.160 It would not be judgment speaking so much as it would be some irritation and exaggeration. 00:37:44.160 --> 00:37:54.300 Here is the story of 1966, told in voices and sounds, gathered on the scene by correspondents 00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:59.400 of the United Press International Audio Network. I'm Duff Thomas. 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:05.000 Vietnam was unknown to most Americans only a few years ago. In 1966, Vietnam was the 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:11.000 year's biggest story. There were other newsworthy places and events, civil rights, Congress, 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:17.000 business, and labor. But Vietnam, a war, young men dying, and a questioning world opinion 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.040 dominated the news. As the year began, the United States was in the midst of a pause 00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:25.640 in its bombing of North Vietnam, hoping to perceive some sign from the communists that 00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:30.520 they wished to de-escalate or even end the war. But as Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, 00:38:30.520 --> 00:38:37.520 I found no one who had any indication or belief that the authorities in Hanoi had decided 00:38:37.520 --> 00:38:41.960 to give up their aggressive ambitions or to come to a conference table to bring about 00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:48.320 a peaceful settlement. It seems to me, therefore, that our present course is clear to support 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:53.520 our own men in uniform and their allies and to proceed as rapidly as possible with the 00:38:53.520 --> 00:38:58.960 political, economic, and social measures in Vietnam which are required even in the midst 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.040 of war. And America's course was clear. As the air 00:39:02.040 --> 00:39:07.080 war over the north intensified, American pilots ran into increasing trouble. More planes were 00:39:07.080 --> 00:39:12.720 downed by anti-aircraft fire and ground-to-air missiles. On the ground, marines and air cavalry 00:39:12.720 --> 00:39:17.480 men pushed through thick jungles and wet rice paddies and deep rivers to keep the communists 00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:22.500 off guard and on the defensive. An expected full-scale offensive by the communists was 00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:27.640 stopped. Correspondent Bill Riley with the patrol gave a vivid account of the GIs' life 00:39:27.640 --> 00:39:44.200 in Vietnam. GIs holding the rifles above their heads, under rolling above us. One just fell. 00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:49.440 American troop strength in Vietnam advanced to over 360,000 men, with more promised in 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:55.400 1967. More than 5,500 Americans were killed. President Johnson went to the scene of battle 00:39:55.400 --> 00:39:58.320 and on the sands of Cameron Bay, he told the GIs, 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:08.640 Make no mistake about it, the American people that you represent are proud of you. 00:40:08.640 --> 00:40:13.740 Not everyone supported U.S. presence in Vietnam. Congress had its objectors, and they tightened 00:40:13.740 --> 00:40:18.240 when the president asked for more money to pursue the war. Arkansas Democrat J. William 00:40:18.240 --> 00:40:23.480 Fulbright coined the phrase, credibility gap, saying he couldn't get a straight answer from 00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:28.120 the administration about the war. Republicans picked it up, House Minority Leader Gerald 00:40:28.120 --> 00:40:32.960 Ford restated congressional disapproval. There are those in this administration who appear 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:40.200 to believe that half a truth is better than none. We disagree. Where the American people 00:40:40.200 --> 00:40:46.240 at home are concerned, we must have the whole truth. But the money came, there seemed little 00:40:46.240 --> 00:40:51.440 else to do. Others did not like the United States and Vietnam. Some citizens of South 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:56.040 Vietnam, Buddhists primarily, went for the throat of Nguyen Cao Khi's government and 00:40:56.040 --> 00:41:01.920 hindered South Vietnamese efforts on the battlefield. We don't like the war in Vietnam. Yes. Yes. 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:09.080 Now I will ask the American go home and bring the war, come back to America. Free elections 00:41:09.080 --> 00:41:13.900 were promised and held, despite the worst Viet Cong terrorists could hand out. A constituent 00:41:13.900 --> 00:41:18.960 assembly was chosen to pave the way for further free elections. With 70% of the South Vietnamese 00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:23.760 population voting, government officials called it a sharp defeat for the Communists, who 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:34.440 tried to upset the elections. As the sounds of war continued without letup, the talk was 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:40.120 about peace. Everyone said they wanted it, including the Communists. Every side had terms, 00:41:40.120 --> 00:41:49.720 none of them agreeable, and the war went on. When the year began, the United States was 00:41:49.720 --> 00:41:55.200 in the midst of a 37-day pause in its bombing of North Vietnam. Diplomats throughout the 00:41:55.200 --> 00:42:00.900 world told U.S. officials that the pause might lead to peace talks. U.S. Ambassadors Harriman 00:42:00.900 --> 00:42:06.080 and Goldberg carried the quest for peace all over the world. President Johnson was forced 00:42:06.080 --> 00:42:14.240 to call off the pause because, throughout these 37 days, even at moments of truce, there 00:42:14.240 --> 00:42:20.560 has been continued violence against the people of South Vietnam, against their government, 00:42:20.560 --> 00:42:28.760 against their soldiers, and against our own American forces. Pope Paul VI, Britain's Prime 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:32.920 Minister Harold Wilson, and Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson all tried for peace 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:39.240 in 1966. U.N. Secretary General U Thant announced that he would not take a new five-year term 00:42:39.240 --> 00:42:44.120 when his personal peace offensives ran into opposition in the Security Council. I think 00:42:44.120 --> 00:42:51.380 I should decide one way or the other, perhaps before June, so that the Security Council 00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:59.800 will be in a position to nominate someone to succeed me if I decide not to offer myself 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:07.220 for the second term to recommend to the General Assembly. Of course, if the Security Council 00:43:07.220 --> 00:43:13.440 were in a position to find someone to be recommended to the General Assembly to succeed me in the 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:18.840 course of the next few months, I believe it will facilitate my decision. He was prevailed 00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:22.880 upon to stay, however, and he announced he would continue his efforts to achieve peace 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:27.840 in Vietnam. However, all efforts produced the same negative response from Hanoi and 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:32.480 Peking. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen best expressed everyone's feelings when he 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:37.780 sounded a note of disappointment. That this country, with all its resources, in that sense, 00:43:37.780 --> 00:43:43.680 with its wealth and its manpower, hasn't been able to bring this to an honorable conclusion 00:43:43.680 --> 00:43:48.680 more quickly than they have. In this country, many expressed their dislike for war. The 00:43:48.680 --> 00:43:52.680 most aggressive were the students who picketed, burned draft cards, and adopted many of the 00:43:52.680 --> 00:43:58.720 tactics and sloganizing ways of another American revolt, civil rights. New York Senator Robert 00:43:58.720 --> 00:44:04.720 Kennedy, with whom young Americans increasingly identify, expressed his concern. I might disagree 00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:08.720 with some of the demonstrations that are taking place, and in fact I do. And I think that 00:44:08.720 --> 00:44:12.720 the fact that so many young people and so many of the rest of our students are taking 00:44:12.720 --> 00:44:16.720 such an active interest in this matter, I think is healthy for the country. Most of 00:44:16.720 --> 00:44:21.720 the men fighting in Vietnam didn't request it, and a rumble arose over the draft system. 00:44:21.720 --> 00:44:26.720 Students opposed schools providing class rankings to draft boards as a method of handing 00:44:26.720 --> 00:44:31.720 out deferments. Civil rights leaders turned their attention to this problem as well as 00:44:31.720 --> 00:44:36.720 the new lowered induction standards. Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell expressed 00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:41.720 his objection. It seems to me America should be confident in the knowledge that a higher 00:44:41.720 --> 00:44:50.720 percentage of black students is already dying in what is ingloriously being referred to 00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:55.720 in black communities as a white man's war against brown people. Some already in uniform 00:44:55.720 --> 00:45:01.720 objected to the war. Several refused to go to Vietnam. The most outspoken critic of the 00:45:01.720 --> 00:45:06.720 war was again Senator Wayne Morse. The Oregon Democrats' raspy voice echoed through the 00:45:06.720 --> 00:45:12.720 empty Senate chamber. I love my president, but I love my country more. And I want to 00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:17.720 say that if we follow the president's war-making course of action, the American people will 00:45:17.720 --> 00:45:24.720 end up involved in a massive war against both China and Russia, and out of that will come 00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:29.720 no victors. Senator Morse and others said Vietnam would KO the president and his party 00:45:29.720 --> 00:45:35.720 in the November congressional and gubernatorial elections. The GOP did gain 47 House seats, 00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:40.720 three in the Senate, and eight governorships, but political analysts said this was not conclusive 00:45:40.720 --> 00:45:45.720 because many Republican winners supported the administration's Vietnam policy. President 00:45:45.720 --> 00:45:49.720 Johnson didn't interpret it that way either. He's a good American. I think we're all glad 00:45:49.720 --> 00:45:55.720 to see a healthy and competent existence of a two-party system. The elections produced 00:45:55.720 --> 00:46:01.720 some Republican presidential timber. California Governor Ronald Reagan, Illinois Senator Charles 00:46:01.720 --> 00:46:06.720 Percy, and Michigan Governor George Romney. Reagan and Percy's elections, some said, were 00:46:06.720 --> 00:46:11.720 due to a white backlash. Reagan said it wasn't so, and he pointed across the country to the 00:46:11.720 --> 00:46:16.720 election of Massachusetts Negro Edward Brooke as Senator. I find it very difficult to assess 00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:21.720 a Republican victory on the basis of white backlash when it's the Republican Party that 00:46:21.720 --> 00:46:27.720 elected the first Negro to the United States Senate in almost a hundred years. Brooke viewed 00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:36.720 his victory this way. The people of this great state have answered all of the George Rockwells, 00:46:36.720 --> 00:46:42.720 have answered all of the people who would divide us and who would keep men from being 00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:49.720 brothers, and I intend to say to the people of this state that I will do everything within 00:46:49.720 --> 00:46:56.720 my power to merit their confidence and their support and their faith in me as a man. The 00:46:56.720 --> 00:47:01.720 other major issue in the 1966 campaign was inflation. Senate Minority Leader Everett 00:47:01.720 --> 00:47:07.720 Dirksen laid out the GOP position this way. You can't have both guns and butter. You can't 00:47:07.720 --> 00:47:15.720 fight a war in Asia and win the war on the inflation unless, and I emphasize it, unless 00:47:15.720 --> 00:47:23.720 this government of ours, this administration, is equally willing to do without and to stop 00:47:23.720 --> 00:47:29.720 its willful reckless spending of the people's money on non-essential things. The cost of 00:47:29.720 --> 00:47:34.720 new cars rose, as did the prices of steel and food. Gardner Ackley, chairman of the 00:47:34.720 --> 00:47:40.720 President's Council of Economic Advisers, made this observation. In my view, the action 00:47:40.720 --> 00:47:45.720 of these companies can only be characterized as irresponsible. They were unwilling even 00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:50.720 to hear the government state the public interest in this matter. Housewives decided something 00:47:50.720 --> 00:47:56.720 had to be done. Due to many requests from all over the country, we have decided to try 00:47:56.720 --> 00:48:02.720 to organize the Housewives nationally. Now, we've had requests from Florida and from 00:48:02.720 --> 00:48:08.720 Nova Scotia, from Canada, from New York, on how to organize, on what to do about this. 00:48:08.720 --> 00:48:14.720 We have had much, much interest. They began the petticoat war on high food prices. We 00:48:14.720 --> 00:48:21.720 have felt that it is a very good time for the Housewives to work for lower prices in 00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:28.720 many areas. As a unified group, banded together, we'll have power and we'll be able to 00:48:28.720 --> 00:48:36.720 put the pressure on in Washington or in any facet of the economy that we wish to put the 00:48:36.720 --> 00:48:41.720 pressure on. Boycotts and picketing became weapons of the Housewives' army as the war 00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:46.720 gained momentum throughout the nation. In some cities, battles were won and prices were 00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:52.720 reduced. But overall, the merchants proved that cost to them justified the current prices. 00:48:52.720 --> 00:48:56.720 Clarence Adame, president of the National Association of Food Chains, thought the women 00:48:56.720 --> 00:49:02.720 were wrong in protesting against supermarkets. I do feel that they'll find that they'll 00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:09.720 be more effective in their protest if they would attack the causes of inflation and not 00:49:09.720 --> 00:49:13.720 the results or the symptoms of inflation. The Johnson administration had problems curbing 00:49:13.720 --> 00:49:18.720 inflationary trends when it came to settling major labor disputes. The president's 3.2 00:49:18.720 --> 00:49:23.720 percent wage price guidelines became a thing of the past. As one settlement after another 00:49:23.720 --> 00:49:27.720 disregarded the suggestion, government officials became more and more concerned over the 00:49:27.720 --> 00:49:31.720 inflationary trend. There were costly strikes in the transportation and communication 00:49:31.720 --> 00:49:36.720 industries which attracted nationwide attention. The year began with a subway and bus 00:49:36.720 --> 00:49:41.720 strike in New York City, which practically crippled the great metropolis for 12 days. 00:49:41.720 --> 00:49:45.720 In the midst of the strike, Michael Quill, long-time leader of the Transport Workers 00:49:45.720 --> 00:49:50.720 Union and one of the most colorful labor leaders, was jailed for violating a court injunction 00:49:50.720 --> 00:49:57.720 to call off the strike. The tough Irish-American said... The judge can drop dead in his black 00:49:57.720 --> 00:50:03.720 robes. We will not call off the strike. Quill was taken to jail where he suffered a heart 00:50:03.720 --> 00:50:07.720 attack. After the strike was settled, Quill made a rapid recovery and was released from 00:50:07.720 --> 00:50:13.720 custody and the hospital. A second heart attack days later claimed his life. A strike in the 00:50:13.720 --> 00:50:18.720 airlines industry crippled domestic and foreign travel for 42 days. Some bitter humor popped 00:50:18.720 --> 00:50:24.720 up. When the walkout occurred, Labor Secretary Willard Wertz was in Japan, unable to get 00:50:24.720 --> 00:50:29.720 a plane flight back to Washington to aid in settling the dispute. Again in New York City, 00:50:29.720 --> 00:50:34.720 the longest newspaper strike in history resulted in the folding of the Herald Tribune and the 00:50:34.720 --> 00:50:39.720 formation of a new newspaper, the World Journal Tribune. Former Trib owner John Hay Whitney... 00:50:39.720 --> 00:50:46.720 The Herald Tribune in New York will not appear again. I know we gave something good to our 00:50:46.720 --> 00:50:53.720 city while we published, and I know it will be a loss to journalism in this country as 00:50:53.720 --> 00:50:58.720 we cease publication. 1966 did not provide a focal point for the Civil Rights Movement. 00:50:58.720 --> 00:51:03.720 The closest occasion for pulling together interest came when James Meredith, the first 00:51:03.720 --> 00:51:08.720 Negro to attend the University of Mississippi, was shot while on a march through that state. 00:51:08.720 --> 00:51:13.720 Before marching, Meredith explained the conditions which he felt existed there and the purpose 00:51:13.720 --> 00:51:23.720 of his walk. The Negro from Mississippi has a lot that he can do for himself, but the 00:51:23.720 --> 00:51:31.720 thing that's holding him back in Mississippi is his fear, fear of unequal treatment before 00:51:31.720 --> 00:51:37.720 the law, and this is a greater fear than the fear of, we'll say, physical violence by individual 00:51:37.720 --> 00:51:41.720 whites. Meredith was shot from ambush along the route of his march, but his injuries were 00:51:41.720 --> 00:51:47.720 not serious. Other civil rights leaders descended on Mississippi and organized a mass march 00:51:47.720 --> 00:51:51.720 to continue along the Meredith path. At the end of the march, a huge rally was held in 00:51:51.720 --> 00:51:56.720 Jackson to provide a final impact. It was at this event that the chairman of the Student 00:51:56.720 --> 00:52:01.720 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Stokely Carmichael, came forward with a new explosive 00:52:01.720 --> 00:52:08.720 phrase. There are three terms that black people in this country should learn at break. One 00:52:08.720 --> 00:52:28.720 is white supremacy, one is neo-colonialism, and one is black power. No sooner had Carmichael 00:52:28.720 --> 00:52:34.720 said it than a half dozen Negroes claimed they first coined the phrase. Instead of unifying 00:52:34.720 --> 00:52:39.720 the rights movement, the cry for black power became the wedge which almost split it. Everyone 00:52:39.720 --> 00:52:44.720 employed his own definition for black power, but the slogan became associated with the 00:52:44.720 --> 00:52:49.720 more militant groups, such as SNCC and CORE. The more conservative rights leaders, such 00:52:49.720 --> 00:52:53.720 as Dr. Martin Luther King and Roy Wilkins, viewed black power as harmful to the rights 00:52:53.720 --> 00:53:18.720 movement. Wilkins explained. Regardless of what proponents of black power said it could 00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:24.720 do, civil rights legislation did not fare well in 1966. The civil rights movement suffered 00:53:24.720 --> 00:53:31.720 its first major setback since 1957. Congress turned back the 1966 Civil Rights Bill. However, 00:53:31.720 --> 00:53:36.720 the 1965 Voting Rights Act was upheld by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the federal 00:53:36.720 --> 00:53:42.720 government could send examiners into state jurisdictions to register voters. White backlash 00:53:42.720 --> 00:53:46.720 seemed to be the reason for the election of some candidates. Perhaps it was because in 00:53:46.720 --> 00:53:50.720 November, many people remembered the cry of black power and what they associated with 00:53:50.720 --> 00:54:14.720 it. This was Cleveland, Ohio, but similar sounds were heard in Dayton, Atlanta, San Francisco, 00:54:14.720 --> 00:54:21.720 Oakland, Omaha, Muskegon, New York, Waukegan, Benton Harbor, and St. Louis. It was senseless. 00:54:21.720 --> 00:54:26.720 It did no good, and in nearly every case, local officials blamed it on outsiders. For 00:54:26.720 --> 00:54:31.720 example, Waukegan Mayor Robert Sabongian said. I will not tolerate outside organizations 00:54:31.720 --> 00:54:37.720 or individuals to come into our community to usurp our home rule. One news story in 00:54:37.720 --> 00:54:43.720 1966 touched several bases at once. Negro Julian Bond, former officer in SNCC, was elected 00:54:43.720 --> 00:54:49.720 to the Georgia legislature in 1965. The legislature denied him his seat, apparently because of 00:54:49.720 --> 00:54:54.720 some remarks he made about Vietnam. I'm fighting a battle over my right to say what I choose 00:54:54.720 --> 00:54:59.720 and the right of the people who live in my district, in my constituency, to make a free 00:54:59.720 --> 00:55:04.720 choice of who they want to represent them. That's the issue. It's not Vietnam. Another 00:55:04.720 --> 00:55:08.720 election was held, and he won again. Once more, he was denied a seat. He took it to 00:55:08.720 --> 00:55:13.720 the Supreme Court, and the court ruled that his freedom of speech had been abridged. Bond 00:55:13.720 --> 00:55:17.720 won for a third time, and apparently Georgia House leaders will not oppose his right to 00:55:17.720 --> 00:55:19.720 the job in 1967. 00:55:19.720 --> 00:55:33.720 As Vietnam divided the country, it also brought some changes in relations with other countries. 00:55:33.720 --> 00:55:38.720 Some of America's friends, notably South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Australia, 00:55:38.720 --> 00:55:43.720 sent troops to help fight in Vietnam. In the colder waters of the Atlantic, it was a different 00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:49.720 story. England supported the U.S. position morally and diplomatically, but sent no troops. 00:55:49.720 --> 00:55:55.720 France, America's oldest ally, opposed U.S. involvement in the war and backed many diplomatic 00:55:55.720 --> 00:56:00.720 moves aimed at discrediting American objectives in that country. When he returned from a visit 00:56:00.720 --> 00:56:04.720 to Europe, Richard Nixon had this observation about America's friends. 00:56:04.720 --> 00:56:12.720 As I traveled through the capitals of Europe, what was shocking to me was that in talking 00:56:12.720 --> 00:56:21.720 to old friends in London and Paris and Rome, friends of freedom too, who I thought understood 00:56:21.720 --> 00:56:28.720 this great conflict between communism and freedom, there was not just neutrality with 00:56:28.720 --> 00:56:33.720 regard to our position in Vietnam, but opposition to it. Although publicly, of course, they 00:56:33.720 --> 00:56:36.720 are remaining, shall we say, politely silent. 00:56:36.720 --> 00:56:41.720 French President Charles de Gaulle continued moving his country farther away from the United 00:56:41.720 --> 00:56:46.720 States into a neutral position in the Cold War by wooing the Soviet Union and other communist 00:56:46.720 --> 00:56:51.720 nations. De Gaulle made an 11-day trip to Russia, which ended with a joint call for 00:56:51.720 --> 00:56:56.720 an end to foreign intervention in Vietnam. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin reciprocated 00:56:56.720 --> 00:57:01.720 later in the year with a nine-day visit to France. De Gaulle gave him a royal welcome. 00:57:01.720 --> 00:57:10.720 De Gaulle also pulled the rug out from under the entire European allied mutual defense 00:57:10.720 --> 00:57:15.720 system by declaring French withdrawal from all military aspects of NATO and demanding 00:57:15.720 --> 00:57:20.720 that all foreign bases be removed from French soil. The French ambassador in Washington, 00:57:20.720 --> 00:57:25.720 Charles Lusset, said that this did not mean France was backing out of her commitments. 00:57:25.720 --> 00:57:33.720 We want to remain your friend and your ally within the Atlantic alliance. We know that 00:57:33.720 --> 00:57:41.720 this alliance is still indispensable for the balance and for the peace of the world. We 00:57:41.720 --> 00:57:49.720 do not think that the military threat is so great in Europe today. But if this threat 00:57:49.720 --> 00:57:57.720 were to be revived, you know which side we would be on. The other 14 NATO members decided 00:57:57.720 --> 00:58:02.720 that the organization could function regardless of French policy and reaffirmed that the pact 00:58:02.720 --> 00:58:06.720 would continue. Plans were made to move the military command to Belgium as France withdrew 00:58:06.720 --> 00:58:13.720 her troops from NATO command. President Johnson sought during 1966 to maintain and improve 00:58:13.720 --> 00:58:17.720 relations with many nations. He traveled to Mexico and expressed continued American interest 00:58:17.720 --> 00:58:22.720 in the Alliance for Progress. The chief executive made the most extensive trip ever by an American 00:58:22.720 --> 00:58:28.720 president. He journeyed more than 32,000 miles, stopping in New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, 00:58:28.720 --> 00:58:34.720 South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Korea. He was warmly received at every stop. 00:58:34.720 --> 00:58:38.720 He told the people in each of these countries that American objectives in that part of the 00:58:38.720 --> 00:58:43.720 world are to build freedom, peace, and prosperity for all and to eradicate ignorance, poverty, 00:58:43.720 --> 00:58:55.720 and disease. There is new hope, a new vision in this vast area of the world. Nations are 00:58:55.720 --> 00:59:06.720 joining together, not only to resist the pressure and to prove that might does not make right, 00:59:06.720 --> 00:59:13.720 but to make a peaceful life possible for all of their people. Despite the war in Vietnam, 00:59:13.720 --> 00:59:18.720 Russia expressed a desire for better understanding with the United States in areas of mutual 00:59:18.720 --> 00:59:23.720 interest. An air pact was signed providing for direct airline service between New York 00:59:23.720 --> 00:59:28.720 and Moscow. A treaty to ban nuclear weapons in outer space was signed by the U.S., Russia, 00:59:28.720 --> 00:59:34.720 and other U.N. members. Diplomats also revealed that a nuclear nonproliferation treaty was 00:59:34.720 --> 00:59:39.720 closer to reality than ever before, and President Johnson announced that Americans would find 00:59:39.720 --> 00:59:44.720 it easier in the future to travel in communist countries. Areas of mutual interest also meant 00:59:44.720 --> 00:59:50.720 an exchange of weather data gathered by the satellites of both nations. In 1966, the Russians 00:59:50.720 --> 00:59:55.720 became the first nation to land a spacecraft intact on the surface of the moon. The Soviets 00:59:55.720 --> 01:00:00.720 also accomplished a crash landing onto Venus, but the biggest space records were scored 01:00:00.720 --> 01:00:19.720 by the United States. 01:00:19.720 --> 01:00:24.720 Lunar orbiters one and two returned spectacular pictures of the moon's surface. Surveyor 01:00:24.720 --> 01:00:29.720 one functioned beautifully, managed a soft landing on the moon, and also returned sharp 01:00:29.720 --> 01:00:34.720 detailed photographs of the lunar surface. The manned Gemini program was concluded after 01:00:34.720 --> 01:00:39.720 accomplishing almost everything it set out to do. There were five two-man space shots 01:00:39.720 --> 01:00:43.720 during the year, beginning with Gemini 8 in March. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David 01:00:43.720 --> 01:00:48.720 Scott performed the first rendezvous and docking with another vehicle in space. Of all the 01:00:48.720 --> 01:00:53.720 missions in 1966, Gemini 9 had the most problems getting off the ground. The first attempt 01:00:53.720 --> 01:00:58.720 to orbit a target vehicle failed. A second attempt to get the mission going failed when 01:00:58.720 --> 01:01:03.720 computer trouble necessitated postponing the flight for two days. On the third try, all 01:01:03.720 --> 01:01:07.720 launch operations went without a hitch, and astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan 01:01:07.720 --> 01:01:12.720 were off on their three-day mission. They set an accuracy record on splashdown, landing 01:01:12.720 --> 01:01:19.720 just 300 yards off target after 44 orbits. Not all went so well in space. As rendezvous 01:01:19.720 --> 01:01:30.720 was achieved, but docking became impossible, as the astronauts told mission control... 01:01:30.720 --> 01:01:35.720 Astronauts John Young and Michael Collins in Gemini 10 hit a high altitude mark of 475 01:01:35.720 --> 01:01:41.720 miles. That record was broken on Gemini 11 by astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon, 01:01:41.720 --> 01:01:47.720 who guided their spacecraft to an altitude of 850 miles. Gordon ran into problems during 01:01:47.720 --> 01:02:04.720 his spacewalk. Command pilot Pete Conrad called Gordon back into the spacecraft early. In 01:02:04.720 --> 01:02:09.720 the final mission of the program, Gemini 12 spacewalker Buzz Aldrin proved that spacewalking 01:02:09.720 --> 01:02:14.720 and working could be done. With Gemini completed, the next steps for American scientists became 01:02:14.720 --> 01:02:19.720 Apollo and the Moon. Director of the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, Robert Gilruth, 01:02:19.720 --> 01:02:26.720 took aim at a lunar landing. With our time schedule and with the present state of Apollo, 01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:34.720 it's in the best interest of getting on with the program to close out Gemini now and put 01:02:34.720 --> 01:02:42.720 our full effort into the Apollo program. Natural disasters claimed many lives in 1966. Earthquakes 01:02:42.720 --> 01:02:47.720 in Varto, Turkey and Tashkent, Russia claimed hundreds of lives. Floods in Italy took many 01:02:47.720 --> 01:02:52.720 lives and ruined works of art, which can never be replaced, and resulted in millions of dollars' 01:02:52.720 --> 01:02:57.720 worth of property damage. When it was over, correspondent Ernie Letito described the scene. 01:02:57.720 --> 01:03:02.720 I walked through flood-torn Florence for the second day today. The pigeons were back, and 01:03:02.720 --> 01:03:08.720 with them, blue skies and a sun that was summer warm. I saw two hungry women fight over a 01:03:08.720 --> 01:03:15.720 piece of dried meat. The loser cursed the winner. I saw others, many of them, picking 01:03:15.720 --> 01:03:21.720 through heaps of mud and garbage, looking for something to eat. Hundreds of trucks poured 01:03:21.720 --> 01:03:26.720 into the city with food and water, but there was not enough to go around. In Abfafan, South 01:03:26.720 --> 01:03:32.720 Wales, a black avalanche of coal slag came down on a schoolhouse, killing 137 children 01:03:32.720 --> 01:03:38.720 and 7 adults. Gwyneth Davies saw the disaster from her home and gave this description. 01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:44.720 We heard this terrible roar like a jet, and everything started to shake, so we ran out 01:03:44.720 --> 01:03:50.720 the back, and all you could see was a terrible cloud of black dust, and then absolute stillness. 01:03:50.720 --> 01:03:53.720 I've never known such a horrible stillness in all my life. 01:03:53.720 --> 01:03:58.720 The Supreme Court in 1966 handed down a decision outlining strict guidelines to be followed 01:03:58.720 --> 01:04:04.720 by police to protect suspects from self-incrimination. The High Tribunal ruled that all suspects 01:04:04.720 --> 01:04:08.720 must be advised of their rights before being questioned. Other significant events included 01:04:08.720 --> 01:04:11.720 the first operation for implanting an artificial heart. 01:04:11.720 --> 01:04:16.720 This is Richard Iser, United Breast International in Houston. Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, famed 01:04:16.720 --> 01:04:21.720 heart surgeon of the Methodist Hospital here in Houston, confirmed this afternoon at 4 01:04:21.720 --> 01:04:26.720 o'clock Houston time that a left ventricle bypass operation was performed by him at this 01:04:26.720 --> 01:04:31.720 hospital this morning. The pump is operating satisfactorily, and the patient's immediate 01:04:31.720 --> 01:04:33.720 post-operative condition is good. 01:04:33.720 --> 01:04:38.720 President Johnson entered the hospital for two operations. He had a small polyp removed 01:04:38.720 --> 01:04:42.720 from his throat and had a repair job done on the scar from his gallbladder operation 01:04:42.720 --> 01:04:47.720 of the year before. On July 1st, Medicare went into effect, and immediate acceptance 01:04:47.720 --> 01:04:50.720 and success of the plan was credited by federal officials. 01:04:50.720 --> 01:04:55.720 In New York City, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, on an official state visit to America, was 01:04:55.720 --> 01:05:01.720 snubbed by city officials after he told newsmen that all Jews who support Israel are his enemies. 01:05:01.720 --> 01:05:05.720 The king will dine alone tonight. Late this morning, Mayor Lindsay's office, in a terse 01:05:05.720 --> 01:05:07.720 statement, had this to say. 01:05:07.720 --> 01:05:14.720 The dinner is canceled. Under the circumstances, the mayor has concluded that it would not 01:05:14.720 --> 01:05:17.720 be feasible to proceed with the dinner. 01:05:17.720 --> 01:05:21.720 The mayor was described as deeply disturbed over the anti-Jewish remarks of King Faisal 01:05:21.720 --> 01:05:24.720 of Saudi Arabia. This is Art McAloon in New York. 01:05:24.720 --> 01:05:29.720 England's recording stars the Beatles found discord when mop-top John Lennon offended 01:05:29.720 --> 01:05:35.720 fans by claiming the rock and roll group was as popular as Jesus. Lennon said he was misunderstood. 01:05:35.720 --> 01:05:39.720 I wasn't saying whatever they were saying I was saying anyway. That's the main thing 01:05:39.720 --> 01:05:44.720 about it. I wasn't saying the Beatles are better than Jesus or God or Christianity. 01:05:44.720 --> 01:05:50.720 I was using the name Beatles because I can use them easier, and I was using it, you know, 01:05:50.720 --> 01:05:56.720 because I can talk about Beatles as a separate thing. But I could have said TV or cinema 01:05:56.720 --> 01:05:58.720 or anything else that's popular. 01:05:58.720 --> 01:06:02.720 Lennon apologized for making the remark, and Birmingham, Alabama disc jockey Tommy Charles, 01:06:02.720 --> 01:06:06.720 who began a campaign to burn all Beatle records, accepted it. 01:06:06.720 --> 01:06:12.720 We accept his apology and the manner in which it was offered. We think it's the least 01:06:12.720 --> 01:06:19.720 we can do. An offhand remark like this is not only dangerous, but it can be very impressionable 01:06:19.720 --> 01:06:24.720 on the young folks, and we think they have made a wise decision, and we accept their 01:06:24.720 --> 01:06:25.720 apology. 01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:29.720 The gala social event of the year took place in August, when the president's daughter, 01:06:29.720 --> 01:06:34.720 Lucy Baines Johnson, married Patrick J. Nugent of Waukegan, Illinois. Not all the world's 01:06:34.720 --> 01:06:39.720 leaders had such happy occasions to spell them from the pressures of world affairs. 01:06:39.720 --> 01:06:43.720 In England, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's labor government won a smashing victory for 01:06:43.720 --> 01:06:48.720 another term in power, but the mandate did not prevent strong opposition to new economic 01:06:48.720 --> 01:06:54.720 policies. In an effort to stabilize the economy, Wilson ordered a wage price freeze. By year's 01:06:54.720 --> 01:06:58.720 end, Britain's economy had not advanced, and Wilson was forced to extend the wage price 01:06:58.720 --> 01:07:03.720 freeze for another six months. A 45-day shipping strike added to his troubles. 01:07:03.720 --> 01:07:08.720 England also had a Commonwealth crisis with the breakaway colony of Rhodesia. The Ian 01:07:08.720 --> 01:07:13.720 Smith regime celebrated its first anniversary since declaring unilateral independence, and 01:07:13.720 --> 01:07:18.720 the British made no progress toward bringing the white supremacists to heel. When a last 01:07:18.720 --> 01:07:22.720 ditch attempt to settle the matter failed, Foreign Secretary George Brown went to the 01:07:22.720 --> 01:07:23.720 United Nations and requested... 01:07:23.720 --> 01:07:28.720 Sanctions which will cause the greatest economic damage to the illegal regime. 01:07:28.720 --> 01:07:33.720 The other white-only government in Africa made news in 1966. Prime Minister Hendrik 01:07:33.720 --> 01:07:38.720 Fouvard swept back into office in South Africa with a strong mandate to continue his race 01:07:38.720 --> 01:07:43.720 separatist policies. A white man working in the legislature assassinated the architect 01:07:43.720 --> 01:07:47.720 of apartheid as he sat in the parliament. Acting Prime Minister Donje announced the 01:07:47.720 --> 01:07:48.720 tragedy to the world. 01:07:48.720 --> 01:07:56.720 It is my sad duty to express on behalf of all the tremendous sense of loss which overwhelms 01:07:56.720 --> 01:08:02.720 us all on this tragic day as Cedar of the Lebanon has fallen. 01:08:02.720 --> 01:08:06.720 The death of another head of state occurred at the beginning of the year. India's Prime 01:08:06.720 --> 01:08:10.720 Minister Shastri died of a heart attack soon after signing a treaty in Tashkent, Russia 01:08:10.720 --> 01:08:15.720 with President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan. The Tashkent treaty ended war between the 01:08:15.720 --> 01:08:20.720 two nations on the Indian subcontinent. The world's only woman head of state, Mrs. Indira 01:08:20.720 --> 01:08:25.720 Gandhi, was sworn in as Prime Minister. While holding India to a neutral position on the 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:29.720 Vietnam War, Mrs. Gandhi tried in vain to get peace talks going. 01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:39.720 We in India are greatly interested and concerned about peace. For to us, it is not only a question 01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:44.720 of an ideal, but one of very practical necessity. 01:08:44.720 --> 01:08:50.720 In Spain, Generalissimo Franco presented a new constitution for approval. The new document 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:55.720 would provide for continuance of the monarchy and allow Franco to choose the new king. The 01:08:55.720 --> 01:08:59.720 gains of government changed hands in Germany with the formation of a grand coalition between 01:08:59.720 --> 01:09:05.720 the Christian and Social Democrats. Kurt George Kiesinger took over for Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor. 01:09:05.720 --> 01:09:10.720 Kiesinger had been a member of Hitler's Nazi party, and while German officials discounted 01:09:10.720 --> 01:09:15.720 any neo-Nazi activity in the country, world leaders watched with concern as the National 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:20.720 Democratic Party made substantial gains in two local elections. Spheres of influence 01:09:20.720 --> 01:09:26.720 changed in 1966, and the biggest setbacks were suffered by communism. President Sukarno 01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:31.720 of Indonesia handed over control of his government to Lieutenant General Suharto after the military 01:09:31.720 --> 01:09:36.720 put down an attempted communist-inspired coup d'etat. The Communist Party was outlawed 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:40.720 by the new military leader, and Indonesia witnessed mass killings in a blood-red purge 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:45.720 of leftist elements. Ghana's army threw out President Kwame Nkrumah and his government, 01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:50.720 saying the myth surrounding Nkrumah had been broken. The new Ghanaian government proceeded 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:55.720 to expel all Russian advisers who had been working in the country and also asked Chinese 01:09:55.720 --> 01:10:00.720 communists to leave. A similar pattern occurred in Nigeria, where the army assumed control 01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:05.720 of the country and all communists were asked to return home. There were a few old areas 01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:10.720 of conflict which could have exploded into new war zones. Border clashes between Israel 01:10:10.720 --> 01:10:15.720 and her Arab neighbors kept tensions high in the Middle East. Israel was censured by 01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:19.720 the United Nations for a raid made into Jordan. Israeli Ambassador Michael Comey expressed 01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:26.720 regret over the UN action. It is a matter of profound regret that the Security Council 01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:34.720 has acted upon complaints concerning Israel reactions, but has not been able for 15 years 01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:41.720 to adopt any resolution on Israel's complaints. In 1966, the split widened between communism's 01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:46.720 two giants, Russia and mainland China. Both countries publicly expressed their discontent 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:51.720 by walking out of official ceremonies in protest over each other's policies and statements. 01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:56.720 The split divided the entire communist world, making it necessary for the West to readjust 01:10:56.720 --> 01:11:01.720 its thinking and military defense plans. Red China alone passed through a period of turmoil 01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:06.720 not seen since its founding. A purge of high-ranking communist officials, such as Peking Mayor 01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:11.720 Peng Chen, the promotion of others, such as Lin Piao to the number two spot in the hierarchy 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:16.720 of power behind Chairman Mao Zedong, and the formation of the Red Guard, all evidenced 01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:21.720 the great internal struggle waged behind the bamboo curtain. The Red Guard, sort of an 01:11:21.720 --> 01:11:26.720 organized, state-thinking mass of young people, surged through the streets of China's major 01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:31.720 cities, bent on destroying all signs of Western influence. They clutched their Mao books and 01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:37.720 screamed insults at traditional Chinese. Correspondent Ralph Yardley picked up this information in 01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:40.720 the bamboo curtain listening post of Hong Kong. 01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:45.720 The Red Guards made their first appearance on August 18th at a huge mass rally in Peking. 01:11:45.720 --> 01:11:50.720 Since then, the undisciplined gangs of teenagers have been on a revolutionary rampage, aimed 01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:56.720 at wiping out all signs of what the communists call bourgeois culture. There were reports 01:11:56.720 --> 01:12:01.720 of bloodshed in some cities. Now the Communist Party leaders have ordered the Red Guards 01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:06.720 to slow down. They've directed the youthful bands to establish more responsible leadership 01:12:06.720 --> 01:12:12.720 and to discipline themselves like soldiers. The signs are that the Red Guards are complying 01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:14.720 with the Party's orders. 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:18.720 China also exploded two nuclear bombs during the year. One device was carried on the head 01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:23.720 of a missile, indicating that China was progressing more rapidly than earlier expected in its 01:12:23.720 --> 01:12:29.720 development of long-range missiles and nuclear capability. China's support of North Vietnam 01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:33.720 and its belligerent attitude on peace talks to settle the war were the principal reasons 01:12:33.720 --> 01:12:38.720 that conflict raged throughout the year. The President could not make the war popular in 01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:43.720 Congress, but he was given all he asked for and more in the way of military appropriations 01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:48.720 to fight it. As many congressmen explained, there was no other course. On domestic issues, 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:54.720 the 89th Congress was very productive. President Johnson swelled with pride over its accomplishments. 01:12:54.720 --> 01:13:02.720 And on the historians of tomorrow, right of today, they will say of the 89th, in my judgment, 01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:06.720 this was the great Congress. 01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:10.720 The first session of the 89th accomplished most of the work. The second, however, became 01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:16.720 one of discontent. In 1965, Congress stamped its approval on one controversial piece of 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:22.720 legislation after another. In 1966, congressmen became annoyed with the President's demands 01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:27.720 and refused to be coerced into decisions which could return to haunt its members up for re-election 01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:33.720 at the end of the year. President Johnson was defeated on two major bills, the 1966 01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:39.720 Civil Rights Bill and repeal of Section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act, the so-called state 01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:45.720 right-to-work laws. Most observers agreed with President Johnson that the 89th Congress 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:50.720 will go down in history as a great Congress. Despite the pressure of the Vietnam War, much 01:13:50.720 --> 01:13:55.720 was done without putting the country into a wartime economy, and concern for the war 01:13:55.720 --> 01:14:01.720 will play a dominating role when the 90th Congress meets in 1967 to draft new legislation. 01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:06.720 One unrelated item Congress may have to consider concerns an incident with America's space 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:12.720 activities. A Watsonville, California man, John Karches, scratched his grandson's name 01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:17.720 on the Surveyor 1 spacecraft and then announced to the world after its moon landing, 01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:27.720 I, John Karches, do hereby lay claim to that part of the Earth's satellite, the moon, 01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:36.720 which is within the radius of 10 miles in all directions from the spot where Surveyor 01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:44.720 1 landed on the ocean of storms Oceanus Rossellinum. Mr. Karches added that he plans to charge 01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:50.720 Americans $1 and all foreign nationals $1 million per person to visit his portion of 01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:56.720 the moon. That is, if no laws are passed prohibiting private citizens from claiming land on celestial 01:14:56.720 --> 01:15:00.720 bodies. And that's 1966 in review. 01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:06.720 Music 01:15:06.720 --> 01:15:10.720 Music 01:15:10.720 --> 01:15:13.720 Music 01:15:13.720 --> 01:15:16.720 Music 01:15:16.720 --> 01:15:19.720 Music 01:15:19.720 --> 01:15:22.720 Music 01:15:22.720 --> 01:15:25.720 Music 01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:28.720 Music 01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:31.720 Music 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.720 Music 01:15:34.720 --> 01:15:37.720 Music 01:15:37.720 --> 01:15:40.720 Music 01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:43.720 Music 01:15:43.720 --> 01:15:46.720 Music 01:15:46.720 --> 01:15:49.720 Music 01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:51.720 You really got money?