public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> this weekend you and a other end national correspondent that talksis book about the turning point in vietnam. >> mark, what was it? " it is a city in vietnam, the was thergest city that scene of the biggest bloodiest battle fought in the vietnam war.

lot beenow that has a written about this can hundred did you approach it differently? >> this the first time a journalist like me will have access to vietnamese participants. i have told the story through the eyes of american soldiers and marines who fought as well and i think enough time has gone by. there is a lot of documentation anne hathaway at the national theive and their is also records of the adjusted .dministration with his national security staff papers. it is a good time to go back to make sure that the record is

established and the participants are still alive. that you say the battle would have been the bloodiest in the war and the turning point in the catholic but also in american history, >> with the tet offensive which was a part of this. the johnson administration and the generals had i think argue to the american people that the war was winnable and it was not going to be a difficult one. they came to washington in 1967 and give a speech to the national press club where he outlined the various phases of the war and he said we are entering phase three where we will begin to withdraw american forces soon. was that then message was winning the war. was a tremendous

shock to the american public. was 100 other cities in south vietnam that were hit. the month it took to win that city back was reminiscent of the battles that were fought in world war ii. this really changed a lot of america's attitude towards the war. think it was apparent to anyone paying attention that the administration and the military had been lying to the american people. >> coming up it amazed soldiers did you talk to personally? >> i talk to about 30. i have not counted them all up. i talked to more than that.

i've know i was them in the back of the book. >> which would you pick of them that you remember the most and why? >> of the north vietnamese army or the viet cong? i think the first character you made in the book was fascinating to me because she was my age. she may have been two years older than me. had -- herirl who fighting foren independence for generations. her grandfather and father had thought. her older sister joined the viet cong and was killed. arrestedlf had been and waterboarded by the vietnamese. tremendously committed idealistic young woman who found

herself right in the middle of this mission spying for the viet cong in the city. not liveople who do through this, the viet cong and the north enemies, what is the difference between them? >> the country of vietnam was divided when the french came into vietnam. but vietnam had their own army. that was the nba. in south vietnam a guerrilla toement carried the fight the soviet enemy and the american soldiers. he recalled the viet cong. they were the guerrilla force that were heavily aided and connected with the nva army and they were the regular military. among, where jt did you meet her? way where shen

works as a optometrist. she rode up on her motor scooter which is a primary mean of transportation. extremely candid. been wounded in the the battle was over she continued to serve the viet cong and they trained her. she then went to work after the war as a optometrist. she has a daughter who is maybe 21 years old. it is very interesting that she can to study in ad states. there was a lot about her that was surprising to me. this was not the image that i had in my mind of the viet cong. of 1968 -- y >> she was part of a series of those girls that set on the

sidewalk so his cardboard hats and these other small items on the sidewalk. she was from a village just outside of the city. in the months before the offensive she and the other commissioned to spy on the american outpost in the south. so she would move around during the day with her wares and she would keep a eye on how many people were coming and going from places and looking of weapons they had. with their schedule was. when the car changes happened, stuff like that. in the evening she would go back and report what she had learned to her leader. of the republic of vietnam and that was the south vietnamese army. >> what was the atmosphere at that time both in this country and in vietnam?

why was this so significant? was that thehere war had been going on for the vietnamese almost without interruption since the early 1950's. for the americans which we had heavily invested in three years earlier was a stalemate. the general believe that the viet cong were incapable of any kind of major offensive. but the most that they could do was to attack american outpost around the perimeter. switching the far world areas. the south vietnamese government buttremendously unpopular were on life support with

american aid. with half a million american troops in south vietnam had become almost a american colony. north vietnam was battered. yes states have been heavily bombing in and around the capital. they had been hurt by this. they expose their vulnerability to mount offensive spirit the war was that kind of a stalemate. the city was kind of a oasis in the war. capital ofraditional united war. and said the sinner dealt with thea huge fortress is emperor's palace. the city itself was cultural, intellectual and spiritual

center of vietnam. other than when the saigon regime crackdown on protests if you use earlier. >> have closed the border is the city? >> it is in central vietnam. as rightok at vietnam there. almost as if they had a belt around his waist and tight end it. that part.ght in at the time when the country was divided the northern and the howhern -- i am not certain many miles they were separated. soldiers were there and junior

of 2058 -- 1958. >> the city had nothing on a significant fighting. there was a face at the southern part of the city which was home to american military advisers. these were marines and army officers who were assigned to work with the south vietnamese army. so, on the day that this battle broke out. with the biggest holiday in vietnam. a lot of the troops had gone home for the holidays. >> with their friends in this town. >> you dedicate this book to jean roberts? >> he was a chief for the new york times in vietnam.

he plays a role in the story. a important one. >> the governor quinn would not to be the managing editor of the new york times. he was a terrific reporter. he come of the civil rights movement and of the south and then later as a reporter vietnam. areas talking about way. >> i have heard vague reports of trouble in way. the capital of the cities that good. i made my way there by truck. finally as the marines were surrounded and held only two blocks of a city. victim'sle and another

forces held on to the rest. each day marines were reinforced by fresh units. they took two or three blocks of the city. most of this happened during the enemy troops infiltrated houses and the middle of the night. it took about 10 days for the marines to get 10 bucks or so for their headquarter compound. it you is he have to do writing this book? >> i did not know -- i had known him for years. grexit colleague of ours who had not seen me and a couple of years said what are you were in i was not in attendance at that time when he talked about so much.

>> he was coincidental and serendipitous that he turned up to me a central player. >> is he still living in north carolina? >> he lives in new york city. he was affiliate with the new york times and he is half the new yorker. >> go back to the you talk to among been a vietnamese, from north vietnam where did you sit down with them and who was the most memorable? >> a think the most memorable professor.r and a a prominent buddhist. he was a buddhist student at the of theo had been part

buddhist uprising against the government in saigon. he had been chased from the city during a crackdown. he joined up with it north vietnamese forces as a writer and became a propagandist. very very idealistic. he believed strongly in the fight for independence. from his home. so when the city was taken he was among the first troops who marched into the sinner dealt, the big fortress in the northern part. he became responsible that she was working then at the political arm of the north vietnamese army. his job was to recruit citizens of the city to support the insurrection and to set up a revolutionary government. as well as root out those people

who work for the south vietnamese government in any capacity and arrest them for reeducation wishard at the primarily execution. wase was also a student who in university. he was involved with smuggling into the city before the attack. with theundercover city. i thought it made for some very interesting stories. he had published a student run newspaper for a while. turned militant by the sudden presence of american tanks and troops. he ended up being one of the earthpal leaders of the

forces as they marched to the city. he was setup to administer local government and all of that and have some responsibility to decide who would be arrested and punished. 17th president johnson made a speech putting it in context that 60 people died right before 1968. >>e is what he had to say to we are making progress. we are all pleased with the results we are getting. inflicting losses that we are taking. it is not perfect by any means. c minus survey a

plus. overall we are making progress in that area with what is happening it is a fully essential that uncle sam keep our word and sustain that until we can find a honorable deed. tell me what you know now? >> my main reaction is that was seal love. it is about that time his secretary of defense who had been one of the architects of the war serving as a secretary of defense under president kennedy had turned against the war himself. he begun setting president johnson details, secret menus telling him that we cannot win this war.

it is not going well. regardless of what the military commanders are saying this work is wired, we need to think about how to get out. what you see in that clip from it was clear that when he brought him back to washington as part of a two-week long public relations campaign to shore up support from the war .ecause went to the podium he was famous for cornering people. he would use his hands and the closer he got the more adamant he was to try to convince you of whatever he was trying to sell. what i see is him in full sales ite of the press about why was important for the united

states to stay in vietnam and how well things were actually going. >> two days later the general would be talking about the atmosphere again. this was on january 1967. andn, the tet offensive weight were part of this. enormouslyhas become expensive. he has almost fully mobilized his country. turning histo troops to the south. as well as supplying them. with the single was significant , throwingd the south

the last one and a half years. koji meant was at that point in hanoi, he had been going back and forth between there and china where he had been undergoing medical care. no longerint he was very significant as a leader in the communist party. ill, he was ultimately sidelined by more hard elements from the government. ho chi minh who had been campaigning for independence his whole life, towards the end of his life he sees it is retained with perspective. was to win over the people of the south. resisted that the north could win the south.

>> it is interesting though that well into their preparations. along the way they had amassed 10,000 troops to take over the city without alerting the subject of government or the american military. character.eresting i've think he believed the things he really said. he was clearly out of touch with what was happening in the country. woman, sheto that was 18? >> yet. day thatwas she the way became a battle? becauseas living there

of the river swatch that had been recruited to spy and have a place of families in the city. she was living there. spiting ande day doing the things that she did. that was because it's sort of a truth. >> hanoi violated this and holidays. the temperatures. she went out dressed up in a them planes up, someone told her you need to go back to your village there are hundreds of north vietnamese soldiers swarming created they are going to move into the southern part of the city. they were from our away. they did not know their way around the city. forhe had to become a guide

, if you have been there in january 1968 believe you have seen on the day that north korea's would have won that. . >> are usually a lot of fireworks and with other was a lot of celebrating going on. if you are family with the sound of gunfire you would not recognize something big was going on. there look at your window are restaurants of energy -- and soldiers. they are marching to the streets and taking over every neighborhood in the city. text?t is >> that is the lunar new year. of thehe major holiday

calendar. the whole thing shuts down for about one week. families get back together. quite sometime since july 4 23 days. >> how memories were killed? >> in the metal 200 and 50. most of them were marines. there was a good number of army troopers who were killed just outside the city as well. tell the story back in 1968 that you can see some of the destruction. yest the end of figuring to , i much support they receive from the population is impossible to estimate.

. >> the palace with public houses didn't. the roof to keep up the ring, humble that hundreds have begun to look for refuge on the south. it is the last journey for some. woman >>s like this who would happily the population >> the partyis hanoi andleaders in those who believed their propaganda, this was the part of departure for the party leader and ho chi minh. of >> theetter sense

because whene was the viet cong moved into the city they would rise up and support them in casting out the american people. . >> i got an spent fighting in the field. i did not sure that optimistic outlook. they told their superiors that we can take the city but the people are not going to rise up and respect.

>> it was about 100. >> is about every city and sizable town and village in south vietnam including saigon was attacked. were asany of them close to you as this one was? >> that is done. attack of the biggest the tet offensive. they had sent 10,000 troops to take that city. in saigon which was probably the second-biggest clash they had probably hundreds of troops. nothing at the magnitude of what they had and way. that was culturally significant of way, the fact that it was honorable -- vulnerable. the military knew they could throw the americans out of saigon and that would be to take

the city. luck quotes lot of from journalists are the years. is a quote from michael hare, who was the and why was he significant? >> he has really become the most famous news reports from vietnam. it is a book called stitches. he had gathered in touch with esquire magazine to send him to periodic essays about the war. he spent a number of years putting himself in the most dangerous places in vietnam, and writing, firsthand about the fighting. he was a tremendously skilled writer. he wrote memorably. one of the essays he wrote for

esquire is called "hell sucks." it was about the battle of hue. he is such a gifted writer. he was writing about people and situations that i was studying and writing about. i could read michael, who was not particularly good at nailing down fax the way the old newspaper reporters do. naming names and getting dates for the first time having read his stuff, longer ago, i was ready to pick his accounts in the context of what was happening. i had a deeper understanding of who and what he was writing about. host: it was not associated in the same organization. >> i am not sure. i know we had a relationship with esquire, but it was not like he was a former staff

member. host: he is not a life? >> he died a short time ago. host: here he is. the reason i want you to react to this is he is talking about war and writing about war in a documentary called "first kill." i am a middle-class jewish boy. i am not john wayne junior. i just had a very strong attraction to war. >> was it satisfying? >> yes, i was satisfied. people do these things for what they believe is a good reason. ask whyld come up and are you here, they would say i --here to kill

they got into it and they like it. -- liked it. is talking very honestly and candidly about his experience. he is a lot different than me, he is a real brave reporter who puts himself in the middle of the action. along 50guy that comes years later and pieces it altogether from interviews and documentation. -- he was the right kind of reporter for the war. he put himself right there in the muck with the grunts, and lived with them, and listen to and sawd talk to them, the war through their eyes. i think that is probably the most significant achievement you can make as a war correspondent.

host: you put a disclaimer in your book about the word -- why? >> because it is a derogatory word. i use it in the context, in my book, the way that gis spoke. this is the term they had, among other derogatory terms. i did not want the reader to think this was an acceptable humanor a whole class of beings. nevertheless, it is an important part of the history of this battle and that period. host: how did you change your mind on this whole issue of hue by going to this process, which you say took about five years? >> as a key i was opposed to the war. i did not know enough about it to have a strong opinion. it was a youth culture bonding thing.

you grow up and it was hard not to be against the war. project gave me the opportunity to really find out for myself what i believed about this war. . found out many things probably one of the most surprising things to me was, apart from whether it was a misguided effort from the beginning, and the politics of the situation, was how poorly led these marines and troopers were. the battle of hue shocks me because the tide on millet -- sogon military command was out of touch with reality of what was happening in the streets. they got a lot of young americans killed. he denied the city had been taken. he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never

concede the shared number of enemy forces in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. is notea i have -- this just coming from me, it is coming from the men who were leading these marines and troopers into these hopeless battles, who were ordered to do so. many of former retired as generals in the marines and army. still furious about the way they and their men were used in hue. host: who is jack lawrence? correspondence for cbs news who did a lot of front-line reporting in vietnam. host: he interviewed a lieutenant colonel ernest, at the time was he a captain? >> he was a lieutenant colonel.

host: did he become a general? >> yes. he is the most famous of the marine generals in modern times. largely because of the reputation he made as a officer in vietnam. host: where did you talk to him? >> i spoke to him on the phone, shortly before he died. i made plans to go down and interview him in virginia. he passed away before the date arrived. fortunately, the general had given extensive oral histories to the marine corps museum in quantico. i was able to hear him talk about his experiences in hue and vietnam without getting a chance to interview him myself. host: in 1968 here is jack lawrence talking to lieutenant colonel. >> what kind of fighting is it going to be? >> house to house and room to room. >> inch by inch? >> that is what it is.

>> did you expect to experience this kind of street fighting in vietnam? this is my first crack at streetfighting. this is the first time marine corps hush street fought since soul -- seoul. >> what will happen to the civilians? >> we are hoping we do not run into any civilians. if they are -- i them pretty sure the civilians are what we would consider the back guys. we have certain areas that we have walked off. we know there are friendly civilians. the others, if there is somebody in there right now, they are charlie, as far as we are concerned. host: how long did it take the marines to get the city of hue back after that initial battle? days. actually, probably longer than 24 days. they took the north vietnamese,

vietnam flag -- viet cong flag. there were still areas of the city that were contested, but for the most part, the battle was over after that. host: what was the colonel's attitude in oral history and when you talk to him on the phone about this situation in hue? >> he had a very professional attitude. he was given the job of taken the cityback -- taking back. i think he was good at his job. one of the things that struck me was the disparity between his approach and west morals approach. go intowas assigned to the city to win it back, he started by asking himself what he actually knew about what was facing him. the truth was, he knew next to nothing. the only thing he knew for sure was where he would be fighting. the night before he moved into the city, he track down marine

corps manuals describing how to an urbanperations in environment. he went to school on weapons and tactics he would need to accomplish his goal. to create a disastrous effect. for the young marines, who, prior to his arrival were thrown against a far superior force, the arrival of cheatham was gabriel to sending in his chariot to lead him to victory and save a lot of lives. at the same time, in that clip you heard his attitude towards civilians in the city. people a city of 140,000 . the people who lived in the city were trapped by this fighting.

in thissays if they are area, as far as we are concerned they are charlie. he is condemning a lot of civilians to a fiery death. the captain was one of cheatham's commanders. he was one of the company sent into the was city with his own company prior to cheatham's arrival. he is one of the then young company commanders who ran straight into the buzz saw of this enemy force. host: here he is, a history channel documentary. it is about one minute. did he become a general? >> he did. host: still alive? >> yes. together you to get and i want that building. >> meanwhile, captain christmas and his troops did not help but

notice the viet cong flag that was flying in the courtyard since the takeover of hue. something that had galled the marines. and called back to cheatham said, we have the building. i will run up the american flag. thatmeone monitoring them warned captain christmas that it was it was illegal to run up an american flag. >> i turn my radio off. that was cheatham's problem. thomasery sergeant frank had an american flag tucked under his jacket that he took from the compound. the fire team ran through and pulled down the viet cong/north vietnamese flag and read up the stars and strikes -- stripes. host: thanks to the history channel for that. did you talk to and ask about whether or not we

should have been at vietnam in the first place? >> i asked all of them. i did a long interview about their experiences during this battle. i proceeded that by asking questions about who they were and where they came from and how they ended up in the marine corps. at the end of the interview i asked, how do you feel about your service and the war? there are many different opinions about that experience. there were people who i talk to -- generally speaking, i would say if i had to summarize, i would say nearly all of them were very proud of having served their country and having fought bravely in this battle. at the same token, most are angry about the way the war ended. they have a sense of having been per trade by their country, either because they percent to fight a war that we should not have been fighting, and could not have been one.

or because they feel that the political leadership and public turned on them and the trade the cause. january ofwas in 1968. robert mcnamara step down as secretary of defense. he had a book that came out in 1995. or is a book of the former secretary of defense during the whole vietnam war. >> my report to the president, inch i said -- i said december 1965, there is only a one-three chance, at best 1-2 chance we could win. he said, you don't the can win military elite? i said -- militarily? i said, yes. should i have said that publicly? this is a terrible dilemma. particularly so, i want to tell you, i was in a very small minority. i am not saying i am right.

other people thought then and today that we were winning then. some people think we were winning then, that is baloney. it is not baloney to say. other people thought i was wrong. we werewe all thought not winning, it was only a 1-3 chance or 1-2 chance, is that what you say publicly to the enemy? , lyndonbert mcnamara johnson all came back from their trips to vietnam and said we were winning. what is your reaction? now, iing at mcnamara feel that he should have said publicly what he thought. so much was at stake. he was one of the architects of the war. he was not just some functionary in the beer -- in the bureaucracy who decided the war was unwinnable. this is one of the people who got us into the war in vietnam and was one of the most notable

authorities on the subject. for him to be telling the president that he did not think we could win the war, at the same time telling the public, yes, we are winning and can keep going, lives are at stake. i think he should have gone public with his reservations. instead, frankly, i think he took a job at the world bank. he preserved his status and reputation among the power elite that he had served. he furthered his career at the as it turneder -- out, six or seven years of conflict. i think president johnson believed his generals. i think he deserves to be remembered, much of the way we remembered george and the civil war being famous for putting together a beautiful army that did not want to actually fight it. it is an example of the different kind of command

stupidity, which is such a strong belief in his own theory of what was happening in the field. it was impervious to fax. even when young officers who were charged with fighting this war would come back and tell him, no sir, this is not what is happening, he would not accept it. and he is believe it not the first general who accepts only the information that supports only what he wants to hear. he is a very glaring example of it. host: did you talk to any enlisted men that were in the way -- hue battle? you talk about a lot of in listed men that were over there had no idea where vietnam was. did you talk to them? >> yes. i would say most of those who i interviewed, who are veterans, who were at the time teenagers

who had volunteered for the marine corps or drafted. in some cases they were corpsmen who enlisted in the navy because they felt that was a good way to avoid going to vietnam and wound up being trained as medics or they are called corpsmen in the navy. they are assigned with grunts on the front line. were not terribly or well informed about what was going on in vietnam. it was more an active faith in their country. .his was an important cause the government had to fight communism wherever it found it around the world. this was their obligation as an american citizen to go and fight. once they were immersed in the fighting, all they were learning was how to stay alive. -- ink their concerns don't think their concerns went far beyond that. host: how many of those enlisted

men are still wounded? the veterans i interviewed were carried off the battlefield. battlinghem are still the scars from those wounds. think have ai emotional scars from the experience. the officers were different. officers like ron christmas and mike downs, jim kulik in was a marine -- jim kulig and who was a marine captain. these were men who were serving out of idealistic commitment. either that, or a sense of professionalism. some of them intended to be career officers. for them, the war was a place to test their skills and prove themselves. they were every bit of thelistic -- this is one of

things i learned in reporting the story. members of my generation who marched in the streets against the war. my generation turned on like a dime. or 1968,1967, or 6 -- most people were loyal to the war effort who believed the government and that it was very important. right around the ted offense, that shifted dramatically. young men who volunteered to fight in vietnam, out of idealism and patriotism, to come home to a country that regarded the war as a moral at ammoral, it was a -- a moral, it was a bitter pill to swallow. host: joseph campbell, who is a professor at at a university, he

had a book about moments in history. i will show you this because i suspect he will differ with them. supposedly lyndon johnson was watching the cronkite show. when cronkite atoned his assessment, he supposedly leaned over and said something to the , if i lost cronkite, i lost middle america. it does not take much research to find out he was not at the white house that night. lyndon johnson was in austin, texas. 51sts attending the birthday party of governor john colony. johnson come in the after my death in the aftermath of the cronkite show says we should recommit to end the war of vietnam successfully. let's bring home a victory. he says is some more than one occasion in the aftermath of the cronkite show.

if this was such an epiphany for the president, he did not make it clear that this had changed his mind in the public comments after that. true what he is said, the president probably never said, if i lost walter cronkite i lost america. i don't know a few was watching tv when cronkite made that broadcast. i'm sure johnson saw and heard it at some point. it does not seem to mean to be contradictory to say that significantlp was of cronkite criticizing the war effort. an astute was politician, recognize that was a effortsious blow to his to rally americans behind the cause. he did continue to make that effort for a few more weeks. as we know now, he chose not to run for reelection, no more than three or four weeks after the battle ended.

he spent the rest of his term in to force thepting north vietnamese to negotiate and arrive at a peaceful settlement before he left office. he stopped thinking about trying to win this war and devoted his efforts to trying to withdraw american forces honorably. host: you said in your book that the american military was restricted on how they could treat this is little in that area and the bombing. were any americans killed because somebody said you cannot touch the citadel? you cannot vomit because of its history? >> yes, the restrictions placed on the use of artillery, more so than air power because air power would have been difficult to employ in the city because of the weather. the visibility was nonexistent from the air. restrictions on the

artillery that probably did expose american troops, and south vietnamese troops to more enemy fire and more difficulty. said, the use of heavy artillery and air support, which did come in full force by the end of this battle destroyed moist -- destroyed most of the city. we had one estimate of 4000 civilians, i suspect it was a great deal more. host: what does it look like today? >> the southern part of the city, which is the modern part has been completely rebuilt. you would never know a big battle was fought there. early -- very bustling, thriving economy. the northern part of the city is also thriving, but you still see in the walls of the citadel, in the ruins of the imperial palace, strong, visual evidence

-- strong visual evidence of the intensity of the battle fought in 1968. host: somebody in the audience, in chicago, when we carried your you about this book asked how somebody in your position can financially do this. your answer was, black hawk down. this book has already been bought for a series. tell us about that. where and how many episodes? what will they focus on and how much will you be involved? >> the rights have been purchased by michael mann, who is a very well-known hollywood producer and director, and steve deluca who is a -- who is well enough known hollywood producer. they have sold this project to fx as a 10 part miniseries.

they have not written it yet. i am an executive producer and they tell me i will actually you don'trk, which always have to do when you're an executive producer. check back with me. i think i will be involved with helping them identify central characters in helping to compress the sweep of the story. -- story into the format. although, 10 hours is a very generous amount of time on screen. we should be able to do a good job. host: who would you suspect would be the principal characters in the series? >> i am just guessing here. i think we will make an effort -- they will make an effort for there to be a prominent vietnamese character. vietnamesenorth i don'twhose name

remember off the top of my head, he tracked down the trail for months. he was a math teacher in hunt or a who was -- a math teacher in hanoi who made this journey. he was in the thick of the fighting weight throughout. i suspect he will be a character. and -- jim kulig cooligan, who was a marine called to a special unit the black panthers. was one of the real heroes from the american side and was involved from the beginning until the end. i am certain he will be a character in the story. can nameetham, i others. host: i want to end this. i want to thank you for coming, but i want to and get by

reminding the audience that january 31, 1968, the hue battle. here is lyndon johnson, march 31, that same year, two years later, 1968. this will be our closer. son and thecan americansaway, with future under challenge right here at home. with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance .very day i do not believe i should devote an hour of my time to any personal partisan causes, or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office. the presidency of your country. , i shall not suit,

and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] or to free transcripts give us your comments about this program, visit us at "q&a".org. they are also available on c-span podcasts. >> if you enjoyed this "q&a" with mark, here are others you might enjoy. documentary film maker who

depicts the final days of the vietnam war in her film "last days in vietnam." there is also coral who writes about his experience in the auto out of the of what it is like -- and the autobiography of what it is like to go to war. going back to the vietnam war. thesen also see interviews online at c-span.org. grouporrow, the advocacy holds a daylong forum looking at ways to expand opportunities for people with disabilities. that gets underway on capitol hill at 9:15 a.m. eastern on c-span two. kentucky senator rand paul speaks at the national conservative student conference in washington, the annual event posted by the young america's foundation. that is live at 7:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span.

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