Why We Fight (2005)

Gore Vidal: Self

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• Gore Vidal : We live here in the United States of Amnesia. Noone remembers anything before monday morning. Everything is a blank. They have no history.

• Gore Vidal : I remember when in the Pacific the word spread that the bombs had been dropped, 99.9% of us were delighted, because we had been convinced that, if Japan was not hit by nuclear weapons, a million of us would be killed. Drop those bombs and they will surrender. But they were trying to surrender all that summer. But Truman wouldn't listen; he wanted to drop the bombs. To show off. To frighten Stalin. To change the balance of power in the world. To declare war on Communism.