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00:00One of America's most popular emissaries arrives in the troubled Congo on a State Department's
00:11goodwill mission.
00:12Louis' solid swinging outraged Radio Moscow, which blasted Armstrong's visit as a diversionary
00:17tactic.
00:18The people of the Congo are in tight to build up their country in peace and freedom.
00:26We were to go to Elizabeth there to attend a concert given by Louis Armstrong.
00:39How much money do the Central Intelligence Agency has poured into the Congo?
00:43I don't know.
00:44Are you prepared to say?
00:45I certainly, of course, don't know.
00:46I wonder if it's quite honest to represent our policy as completely angelic.
00:54The man seated out on the terrace was a man I recognized.
00:57He said, well, you have to assassinate Lumumba.
01:00He used those words?
01:03Yes.
01:05But who ordered him?
01:06He said President Eisenhower.
01:08In the UN, when Khrushchev took off his shoe and was beating that shoe, and the interpreter
01:15said, how dare you talk about America, Khrushchev was saying, I love you, but it was the interpreter
01:23who hated America.
01:24You understand what I mean?
01:25But did he have rhythm?
01:26No.
01:27He had rhythm, right?
01:28Uh-uh.
01:29Uh-uh.
01:30Uh-uh.
01:31Rhythm is my business.
02:02It's my business.
02:03It's my business.
02:04It's my business.