>> guest: that you treat the people almost a slave. c-span: that americans treat them that way to two.on't think. >> guest: no, i don't think so.e but again the lack of understanding and a tradition, and custom and some of the time because we did too impatient. and so especially this gives them the impression that we havs this system. c-span: let me ask you about another person who has an imagew in this country that you write about in here and the famous

picture of this general being a assassinated on the streets ofey the be a nominee say that that was unfair to him, that he was a good friend and a good name. >> before i express my own opinion, i can tell today that even the one that took the think picture in the interview, again, they expressed some kind of regret it. didn't because he didn't know what happened before.ken?

c-span: what year was that so -ure taken? >> guest: [inaudible] book -- c-span: here's a picture that you have in the book. didn't he just i also? he was here in town. >> guest: he was here in washington about two years ago. and he comes here with help from their family and he said that this is too small.t. and you chose that and as is the chief of police, he made very s.

powerful money. c-span: chief of police in y chf saigon? guy >> guest: yes, national and come chief of ways.ere are c-span: there are a million pygmies people in the united states. - is this- hard? >> guest: almost 2 million. c-span: really? >> guest: yes. c-span: it was hard for you, wasn't hard for you to do what you have to do in this country? ay, >> guest: no, maybe because i a. chrn that way. and when i become the commander in chief, you can ask them and i

still talk about people in this. and then everything is actually different.he and from me the position has been a part of it. so when i come here i feel no different. and no difference at all, and mt it's like, okay, they don't botherid me. say c-span: you say if you are different, i have some respectiy and interestou in new and if yo" average, i'm not interested.

>> guest: yes. [laughter] c-span: what you mean by that ht ifant if you are different, i have some respect and interest in you. if you y are average, i am not>. interested. >> guest: anyone, this is not the problem. but if you are different and you belong to and you belong to a small group of a leader, i thin, that i am tha yt way. didn' i didn't learn from anyone. including what we had to do and

that's why again it is li important. c-span: what does it mean that.. >> guest: it means that i come my from this and my mother in desperation to have a boy, she wanted to pray to buddha to have a son and then i was born. and so my mother and my family believe that. and i also wanted to write thise book until after listening, one, day he said to me, i think, you

know, you really have the heart of it. c-span: okay. >> guest: so he himself with the press, you know, had suggested th to me this have a situation. c-span: and he had been in the anon. >> guest: yes, i think he was in for the first division.am, yes. c-span: utility story that ihoue thought maybe you were trying to send a message as to why the vietnam war and it was a storyr it's t2 of you leading a raid into henorth vietnam. it is the sandals versus the shoes story.

>> guest: i was one of the firse pilots to work closely with the cia at that time and to crosso the border at night and that is that in 1931. and then we were to lead ourbom. aircraft to bomb north vietnam. and also many times president johnson and other people need to stop this war.o go

and so you have to go and understand this. if you can continue to fight thu war and always in the differences, at the end of the day you went to lose. but for some reason they never listen to me at one time the chinese may have been a part of this. and others talked about a second portion of the war. the so we always see the differences

with so muchwe limitation.ressed c-span: so does sano versus the shoes story is when you drop the people. the cia led and he said that people in they misread the fact when they dropped people in they had shoes on but the north vietnamese were sandals? >> guest: what we learned latert under the comment system is how of they tie this together and yk how they have the systems they need to control. to control the people.ir

so they have this hamlet and village and if you don't pay attention to the detail, even your accent and the way you eat, they would recognize that rightn away that you are part of that.t c-span: unfortunately we are out of time. cao ky, the a tremont is the author, former prime minister of south vietnam, the book is called "budda's child: my fight to save vietnam." did you very much. >> the redesigned to its website features 800 notable nonfiction authors and interviews about their books. you can view the programs and seek transcripts and used searchable database and find links to the blog, website, facebook pages and twitter feeds. a helpful research tool and a great way to watch and enjoy the authors and their books.

>> in my assigned role, i was perfectly willing to entertain the possibility that another book on the same subject could come out simultaneously and i somehow missed it. he was are you telling me about the very important books the smug look that i knew so well and let me just say that my life as well sprinkled with a long succession of editors that i had in two and it's still remembered . and this includes other men as well. so i should have known when they interrupted her to say that that is her book. and he just continued on his

way. he said that's her book for your four times before it she finally took it in. that i was indeed the author of this very important book and it turned out that he hadn't just read about it in "the new york times" book review a few months ago. and he was stunned speechless for a moment. ..

put your vote at risk. the staff member of the heritage foundation frequently speaking and writing on elections. please welcome hans von spakovsky. [applause] >> i hope you are enjoying your stay here at the heritage foundation. two years ago, john fund works for a national review. we wrote a book. this one, "obama's enforcer: eric holder's justice department." and is basically about how eric holder has run the justice department for the last six

years. that's silly that it is something kind -- something that ought to concern every american. >> the justice department is probably the most powerful executive branch agency on the domestic side that we have. the prosecutors who work there can break and a bankrupt, and put in prison any american. and if they have the willingness to abuse the law, they can do a lot of harm. i can't tell you, that is exactly what has been going on now for a number of years. i used to work at the justice department. i spent four years there. i can tell you, the people, have talked to there, we have sources , politicize the way that

has never been politicized before. one veteran of the department, a career civil servant lawyer who was hired during the clinton administration told us that eric holder was the worst attorney general says stop the mitchell under richard nixon. mitchell went to jail, you may recall. but actually that .. makes mitchell look like an amateur. part of what has happened throughout the department is they have been filling the ranks of the justice department. dissing -- that career civil servant is supposed to be a system that hires people without politics, professionals, and what they have been doing is spilling their ranks with their political cronies, people from liberal advocacy groups in washington they get no

attention from the press. this inspector general report talked about how in the hiring process for career lawyers in the civil-rights division, which is where i used to work, the division had overlooked and refuse to hire lawyers with sterling credentials from some of the biggest law firms in the country and had hired almost all their lawyers exclusively from five liberal advocacy organizations including the aclu. that tells you the mindset that is there. what i was at the justice department we saw law as the fed's within which we have to operate. the department today does not see the law. their view is they want to help the president, change

the center of the progressive utopia that the president had the vision for . if they can ignore the law, banned the law, change the lock of los the will to it. we talk about everything from national security, really big important topics. about to go into the work force, let me give you an example of how crazy they are. last year the head of the education section of the civil rights division who has been hired in their careers lot from the naacp and was told the united nations had a form that she believed that in the united states and school officials should be able to assign students based upon their

race, religion, and immigration status. they sent a letter to colleges throughout the country last year setting up a new standard that they said colleges had better follow if they did not want to get sued by the justice department on claims of sexual harassment. now, i don't belittle the importance of making sure that sexual harassment does occur. the rules on that that have been established by the supreme court are pretty clear which is for someone to be guilty of sexual harassment have to engage in severe behavior that is objectionable to a reasonable person. so if you are a super sensitive individual who gets offended because someone su out of date that is not sexual harassment. that is the new role that the justice department said colleges have to follow. they said that any unwelcome

conduct, literally from the letter, any unwelcome conduct should be considered sexual harassment. so i'm telling you that chilly that if you ask someone out of a date and they are offended by it, this new rule you could be brought up one sexual harassment charges and a college. not only that, but they were extremely upset over the fact that many colleges give due process rights to students. this is america. we believe in due process. you are not considered guilty just because someone accuses you of something. they actually complained in his letter about colleges having appeal rights. so if you are accused of this and they're is a finding against you and you want to appeal that they complained about the fact that you can appeal that.