Great Decisions 1967; 3; Vietnam: What Price Peace?
- Series
- Great Decisions 1967
- Episode Number
- 3
- Episode
- Vietnam: What Price Peace?
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
- Contributing Organization
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/512-g15t72895z
- NOLA Code
- GTDS
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Ambassador W. Averell Harriman will be the featured guest on the third Great Decisions 1967 program Vietnam: What Price Peace? Although officially designated Ambassador at Large, Harriman is often referred to as the Presidents Peace Ambassador. Ambassador Harriman has played a major role in President Johnsons effort to bring the Vietnam issue to the negotiating table. For the past three decades the seventy-five-year-old Harriman has been one of the leading figures in the public life of this nation. In 1934, Ambassador Harriman left a lucrative business career to join President Roosevelts administration as Administrator of the National Recovery Administration. In 1941, he was appointed Special Representative of the President in Great Britain, with the rank of Minister, where he served as a member of the Combined Shipping Adjustment Board, the Combined Production and Resources Board and the Lend Lease Munitions Assignment board. From 1943 to 1946 Mr. Harriman was the United Sates Ambassador to the Soviet Union. In April of 1946 he was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain and service at that post for six months before being named Secretary of Commerce by President Truman. In 1948 Mr. Harriman became United States Representative in Europe with the rank of Ambassador under the Economic Cooperation Act. Appointed Special Assistant to the President in 19560, he also served as United States Representative and Chairman of the NATO committee to study Western defense plans. Mr. Harriman was appointed Director of the Mutual Security Administration in 1951. He was elected Governor of the State of New York in 1954 and served in that capacity until 1958. He returned to Federal service in February 1961, when President Kennedy appointed him Ambassador at Large. He was named Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in December of that year. He served in that capacity until April 1963 when he was named Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. Harriman says there is some indication that Hanoi may be willing to talk peace probably in private discussions rather than in open, public negotiations. The current turmoil in China is viewed by Harriman as helping to encourage those in Hanoi who want to negotiate and do not want to be dominated by China. Hanoi, he says, is now worried that China will continue to supply her with the necessary food and materials to keep the war effort going. Harriman says the United States would allow the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) to come to the bargaining table with Hanoi but the U.S. will not accept the N.L.F. as the representative of the South Vietnamese people. What we want, he says, are very limited objectives that will let the people of South Vietnam decide their own future. Were for free elections and were for everybody participating in those elections. Were not going to make any deals behind the back of the Saigon Government. And it may well be the Saigon governmentthat would start negotiations. The United States will abide by any decision made by the South Vietnamese in any forthcoming elections, even if they should vote to align themselves with the North, Harriman says. However he says I see no indication of anything thats happened in Vietnam which would make one believe that the majority of people in South Vietnam want to be taken over by Hanoi. The Ambassador says hes hopeful that the Soviet Union would be able to use its influence to bring the hostilities to an end. I believe very strongly that they think these hostilities are against their interests; theyd like to bring them to a close. Great Decisions 1967 Vietnam: What Price Peace? is a 1967 production of National Education Television. Produced in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Association through the facilities of WETA-TV, Washington, D.C. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- The National Educational Television network will serve as a spring board for public discussion of world affairs issues with Great Decisions 1967, a series of eight half-hour episodes originally recorded on videotape. Produced in cooperation with the Foreign Policy Association, the series has been designed to take these issues out of the abstract and into the living room. Every week on the NET network of 112 affiliated stations topics central to national survival and world peace will be presented by international authorities as across the nation the same issues are discussed by community study groups of the Foreign Policy Association. The moderator for this years series will be noted author and foreign affairs analyst Milton Viorst. Since 1962 Viorst has served as a television and radio commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and from 1961 through 1964 he was also Washington Correspondent for the New York Post. He is the author of three books, and his fourth, an analysis of the decline and fall of the G.O.P., will be published later this year. Viorst is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in such publications as Esquire, Harpers, The New Republic, Science and many others. Great Decisions 1967 is produced for National Educational Television by John Davenport, of NETs Washington affiliate WETA-TV. Davenport, while employed as a documentary producer for WRC-TV (NBC Washington) was the winner of four local Emmy awards. He is also the recipient of the National Aviation and Space Writers award for best written television documentary dealing with space or aviation. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-02-19
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:30:29
- Credits
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Associate Producer: Nichols, Carolyn
Director: Hunter, Jack
Executive Producer: Davenport, John
Guest: Harriman, W. Averell
Host: Viorst, Milton
Producer: Hunter, Jack
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Producing Organization: WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
Writer: Miller, Stanlee
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2080273-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:29:02
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2080273-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:29:05
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2080273-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Duration: 0:29:05
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2080273-5 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2080273-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Great Decisions 1967; 3; Vietnam: What Price Peace?,” 1967-02-19, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 2, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-g15t72895z.
- MLA: “Great Decisions 1967; 3; Vietnam: What Price Peace?.” 1967-02-19. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 2, 2026. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-g15t72895z>.
- APA: Great Decisions 1967; 3; Vietnam: What Price Peace?. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-g15t72895z