to be a liability. the justice system needed new procedures that were more efficient for commercial societies. the more enduring legacy of magna carta is the one that justice william johnson pointed to in bank of columbia versus oakley. the idea that the individual should be secure from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government. thank you. mrauz. [applause] >> you're watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span 3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. tuesday night, president obama delivers his state of the union address, live coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern, including the president's speech, the gop

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border in north vietnam. a red gor ail was able to slip by in the night and launched shells into the area while bombs were placed on the aircraft and against barrack walls. why security is so lax is the object of two investigations. although, some officers say full protection against such attacks is impossible in this jungle war. there's mute evidence of the toll the gorillas took here. first official word of the retaliatory attacks comes from secretary of defense robert mcnamara. the map shows a relative position of three carriers attached to the seventh fleet as well as the three u.s. places that were hit by the viet cong. this is what followed. >> immediately following the attack, u.s. representatives in saigon met with representatives of the south vietnamese government. jointly agreed that joint retaliatory action was required.

the president's approval of this action was given after discussions, and in a meeting between 7:45 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. last night. >> mr. mcnamarasaid that the raiding u.s. jets hit barracks, where troops were equipped to the south. in the first raid, land-based planes were forced back by the weather, but the carrier jets completed their spike with the loss of one american plane. later, reconnaissance flights proved much of the staging area was completely destroyed. the confrontation from the red and the rest was the most critical since the incident last summer, when the u.s. replied just as swiftly to north vietnam p.t. boat attacks. >> the second raid came the next day when south vietnamese pilots struck anew across the border. here again, a successful mission was carried out asked red

communication center was bombed and scraped. moscow was slow to comment on these retaliatory raids. finally, they both vowed to back the north vietnam raid. a hawk ground to air missile unit has gone on duty. meanwhile, president johnson's special assistant for security affairs, george bundy, arrives at the scene of the viet kong raid. he holds a conference with general con before returning to officials. the council was meeting in washington and it was these meetings that brought the swift decision to strike back at viet cong. to emphasize our resolve and to defend the cause of freedom in southeast asia.

before leaving for home, mr. bundy flew to the eighth seal hospital to visit the man wounded in the gorilla attack. 108 men were wounded, 79 of them seriously. mr. bundy later found moral high among the men, a factor that the president says our enemies always underestimate. mr. bundy arrives into washington the next day and goes into conference with the president and security council. he tells reporters that he found political and religious factions in vietnam united in their belief that the viet cong is their common enemy. >> we had an opportunity to talk frankly and freely with them. they again emphasized the overriding importance in south vietnam of the contest against the communists. they emphasized that the political leaders had done their

own important and dedication to, the importance of and their dedication to the task of forming a stable and effective political society under stable and effective government in that country. a view, which, of course, we share. and i think it's fair to say that the americans in vietnam are in very good heart, and are prepared to continue, even against this kind of danger and this kind of sneak attack. let me say one more thing about that sneak attack that in a war of this kind in which there are no fixed ones in which there are large territories that are likely inhabited and essentially jungle and mountainous in character, i know no military man who believes that it was without an overwhelming assignment of local defense forces, it is possible to guarantee against this kind of sneak attack. this is the sort of thing and all americans in the area know

it, with which we simply have to contend while we prosecute in company with the government and people of south vietnam, a contest against communism, which is of the highest importance to our national interests. >> dr. anthony fauci, our guest tonight on q&a is on the front line battling against infectious diseases. >> we have drugs right now that when given to people who are hiv infected, and i can show you if someone comes into my clinic with aids in the early '80s the immediate survival would be six to eight months, which means half of them would be dead in eight months. now, if tomorrow when i go back

to rounds on friday, and someone comes into a clinic who's 20 plus years old who's relatively recently infected, and i put them on the combination of three drugs, the cocktail of highly active antiviral therapy, i can look them in the eye and say, we could do mathematical modelling to say, if you take your medicine regularly, you can live an additional 55 years. to go from knowing that 50% of the people will die in eight months to knowing that if you take your medicines you can live a normal lifespan, just a little bit less than a normal lifespan. that's a huge advance. ares >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015]