>> in vietnam every farmer in vietnam produces on their own land. they have the right to use the land. it is the driving force to develop agriculture production. >> it is true that if people don't have land rights it becomes impossible for them to get bank loans. what we try to do is when you use the normal system of the land surveys, it's very expensive to take the surveyor to the farms. so what we've been trying to do, of course, this is through the model developed. in the villages -- in the villages we have the land registry. so we have now been training people in the villages, those who have gone to secondary school, how to use the g.p.s. so if somebody would come to my farm, stands in this corner, he writes the coordinants, gets to the next corner, the other one and the other one so through this process, we are doing nothing. and it is done by the villages themselves. and then through that they have a complete map of the allocation. the other thing that we have done, the ability that have been empowered to issue land certificates, and the certi

we will never do vietnam ever again. if you're going to go win, ago win and win it with everything you have got. in many quarters after vietnam, that rang with many people. the kramer provocative weakness, which i described described, when it comes to fruition in the reagan administration is likely changes from the campaign campaign, it does not say provocative weakness that was the mantra and that was the kramer doctrine. easy to say until we wrote the book i did not know that it now we do know the mid to late -- material and papers that we dug up it is clear this man was a force. and we will galvanize the force is what i described and what we described in the book. >> we are in two wars now and in the beginning part of the four years or how the conduct of the vietnam war affected just about every policy decision that nixon made and later, gerald ford. what parallels to use the between that and what we see now with the iraq and afghanistan wars? >> the most important parallel is the power of the military and the argumen

the vietnam war 1954-1965. he has served -- several times to afghanistan. our other guest is seth jones. author of in the graveyard of empires. he is a political scientist at the rand corporation and professor at georgetown university. we have been in afghanistan eight years. is there a end game to this. >> i think there is. it has taken a long time to get there. in the early years there didn't seem to be much violence or a need to focus. we had iraq. insurgency didn't get going until 2005 on a large scale. we were slow to react. we tried for several years to ramp up the afghan forces quickly but it was a quantity push over quality. that gets to the issue about corruption. corruption starts with commanders on the afghan side. at some level they are tolerating this. for too long we let them sort this out. we have seen some encouraging examples where we are starting to prostitute people for corruption, governors and police chiefs. we just upgraded the training mission to a three star general, general caldwell. and our best and brightest going over there. most

and "triumph forsaken: the vietnam war, 1954-1965". doctor moyer has served in, has been several times to afghanistan, our other guest is seth jones author of "in the graveyard of empires." is also a political scientist at the rand corporation and a professor at georgetown university. mark moyar, we been in afghanistan now eight and a half years. is there an in game to the? >> i think there is, and it's taken us a long time to get there. in the early years for one thing there didn't seem to be much violence or need to focus on. of course we had iraq and the insurgency didn't get going until 2005 on a large-scale. and then we were slowed to react. we have tried for several years to sort of ramp up the afghan forces quickly, but again it was a quantity bush over quality. and that's also again gets to the issue talk about corruption. the corruption starts with commanders on the afghan side because at some level they are tolerating this. and for too long we have sort of let them sort this out. but just in the past few months we've seen som

ey hear about things like the vietnam war and they hear the vietnam war compared to the war on terror. and yet, they have the sense that they're not getting the real story. and so, this book is designed to say, you didn't get the real story of the vietnam war and you're probably not coding the real story on the war on terror from the current administration because of their political agenda. >> last year you had the ultimate man survival guide. was that a big seller for you in this at the beginning of another series possibly? >> thank you for asking. we're actually talking about starting a series of ultimate man survival guides. it was a very successful but for us. it's a lot of fun and it's also the kind of book that covers a wide range of topics from a conservative family values, sort of rugged independent kind of point of view. and again, this is another book that has appealed greatly to a younger audience and a lot of people i know about the book and give it to their son when they graduated from college, when they just got married. it's a very fun and interesting book and is someth

[applause] >> from vietnam, a question.the innovation and efficiency, i don't see by 2050 we will not have enough food. do you see this as a conflict between countries that will be created as a result? >> there are technologies today that we and others in the industry are working on that can increase the yield in soy 40% over the next 8-10 years. that is the focus of research programs that continue? in many of these areas. not only on just the general yield but the conditions in which they operate and are able to grow in drought conditions and being able to use less nitrogen and create less more efficiency. investments in industry is making will continue to produce results, i think. the question then is how do you get to the markets? as we go into countries in africa and we are working on a local basis, you can create real progress, but how do you leverage that across a larger area faster? we have been working in west africa with africa harvest, west african seed association. we have worked to create four local seed compani

he was the first collected in vietnam-error member of congress.ividual service personnel. he made a difference in this nation's security as mr. defense. in that realm especially, he spoke with courage and clarity. he spoke as a patriot. congressman, murtha made a difference to the people of western pennsylvania in the nine counties that make up the 12th congressional district. he made a difference in people's lives with jobs, job training, insuring pensions, obtaining federal aid, especially after the 1977 flood here. with his tireless work, to help create a favorable climate for a strong economic conditions in western pennsylvania. he made a difference as the longest serving congressman in pennsylvania history. and john murtha made a difference with his many humanitarian efforts, working for the health of his constituents, brain surgery, brain injury program, fighting against cancer, to research, and fighting for good and affordable health care. there is great comfort in this day in john murtha's life. he made a difference. comfort also comes to

in time for stake vietnam war, 1954 to 1965. dr. moyar has served in or has been several times to afghanistan. our other guest is seth jones, author of "in the graveyard of empires." he's also a political scientist at the rant corporation and a professor at georgetown university. mark moyar, we've been in afghanistan about 8.5 years. is there an ending to this? >> guest: i think there is. it taken us a long time to get there. in the early years for one thing it didn't seem too much violence or need to focus on it and of course we at iraq. the insurgency really didn't get going until 20,000 lives and on a large scale and was slow to react. we tried for several years to ramp up the afghan forces quickly, they began about the quantity pushover quality. and that's also again gets to the issue, we talked about corruption. you know, the corruption starts with commanders on the afghans because at some level there tolerating this. and for too long, we've sorted let them sort this out. but you know, just in the past few months we've seen som

and vietnam and the dissembling and lying and deception on that, followed by watergate. but this is-- this is sort of a new depar ture. and really, an unnerving one, jim, bus as you point out, there isn't any scandal. there isn't any corruption. there isn't any great deception that the government has been guilty of or proven guilty of. and it's just the failure of the economy. within 27 years, and i think 28 years since 1982, with really the bumps in the early 90s, first george bush, we have had low unemployment and low inflation. and this is you know, a major, major depar ture. >> the era between 3ee and '65 was the depar ture, that americans through the 19th century and 18th century were extremely skeptical of government. then we had like a 50 year period mostly because of franklin roosevelt where people invested trust in government and that was the exceptional period. and now we are back to a norm. but then if you take a smaller time frame, what have we seen? we've seen americans, we've seen washington try to solve social security reform, immigration, probably health-

he was the first vietnam veteran elected to the united states congress. he is the longest serving in the history of the congress from pennsylvania to serve in the house of representatives. and as mr. young mentioned during his remarks, he never forgot the men and women in uniform and made sure that they had the tools to do the job that they do so well and our returning veterans as well, he was always at the forefront of making sure that they had the proper care and treatment and visited them so many times at our military hospitals. but he also cared so much about all of us. everybody in this body has an example where jack helped them. and he helped me so many times over the years, but there's just one that i want to share with everyone today. after the redistricting of -- after the 2002 election, i found myself serving in a district that was 60% new to me and i inherited one of the best medical facilities in the commonwealth of pennsylvania and actually in the entire country, the penn state milton hershey medical center and after meeting with the leaders

note that his riverside speech april 4, 1967 in new york city when he first comes out against the vietnam war in a very robust publicly has been given one year to date before he is assassinated in memphis. so when we think about income especially between 1965 and 68, even two years before riverside, by the time he's going to chicago and he is in chicago to try to transform the slums. he talked about a slum clearance campaign and desegregate housing in chicago. he is talking about poverty. is talking about economic marginalization of poor people, laborers, king makes a very famous speech where he talks about all labor has dignity, which is one of his last speeches in 1968. kingsport people campaign is something that we shun to cite a well. we keep dr. king frozen on august 20, 1963, with the i have a dream speech right here in why she can be seat. we don't think about the king who was really much more combative come even though he was not violent. team believe you could use nonviolence as a moral and political force, really a battering ram to transform democracy. so it wasn't that king was

in time for stake vietnam war, 1954 to 1965. dr. moyar has served in or has been several times to afghanistan. our other guest is seth jones, author of "in the graveyard of empires." he's also a political scientist at the rant corporation and a professor at georgetown university. mark moyar, we've been in afghanistan about 8.5 years. is there an ending to this? >> guest: i think there is. it taken us a long time to get there. in the early years for one thing it didn't seem too much violence or need to focus on it and of course we at iraq. the insurgency really didn't get going until 20,000 lives and on a large scale and was slow to react. we tried for several years to ramp up the afghan forces quickly, they began about the quantity pushover quality. and that's also again gets to the issue, we talked about corruption. you know, the corruption starts with commanders on the afghans because at some level there tolerating this. and for too long, we've sorted let them sort this out. but you know, just in the past few months we've seen som

and try and forsaken the vietnam war, 1954 to 1965. dr. moyar has served, has been several times to afghanistan. our other guest is seth jones author of "in the graveyard of empires." he is also a political scientist at the rand corporation in a professor at georgetown university. marks moyar we have been in afghanistan now eight and a half years. is there and in came to this? >> guest: i think there is and it has taken us a long time to get there. in the early years for one thing it didn't seem to be much i am-- beilin cindy heda iraq ended the insurgency did not really get going until 2005 on a large scale. and then we were slow to react and as i said we have tried for several years to sort of ran about the afghan forces quickly but again it was the quantity pushover quality. and that is also coming gets to the issue that we have talked about corruption. abruption starts with commanders on the afghan side because at some level they are tolerating this and for too long we have sort of let them sort this out. but, just in the past few

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in vietnam you've been successful in increasing productivity.d you do that without using any sort of genetically modified food? >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: i think that to ensure the food security first we need to ensure good distribution channels that we must ensure the accessibility of the people to that food and each country must make its own efforts with international assistance and ensure food security for the community. productivity is to increase the output. to help enhance productivity and output -- >> so you're not against a genetically modified food, just to get your -- >> [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: we do not oppose [inaudible] it is not necessary for us because we have productivity of 15 tons. we could provide [inaudible] we are still self-sufficient in production. >> can i just ask the audience here, the purchase to genetically modified food, those against totally, those who are in favor and those who say if as long as i know it i don't mind, i will take the choice. can i have a phrase of hands have

vietnam went to the communist, you know. all these bad things would happen, which never really happened. now i think we can continue to use law enforcement intelligence airstrike in special forces to contain al qaeda and any of those potential sanctuaries. and including afghanistan and pakistan, if we have to. and i think containing, by containing the taliban, instead of just containing al qaeda, makes the problem worse because you have a foreign occupation. i think we need to pressure pakistan and get them to do what they can. now, if they don't do what we can do we need to keep al qaeda contained with the least footprint available. so doing no harm should be the first u.s. objective. we encourage islamic militants in the cold war years too, as a bulwark against atheist communism but we're still doing that and certainly by occupying muslim soil. and bin laden must be pleased by both obama's surge and bush's excursion into iraq. so i think we need a lighter touch, and concentrate on counterinsurgency and drop the counter --

vietnam what on his presidency -- would haunt his presidency.he way we fight our wars. many citizens are exempt from the sacrifice required when we sent troops abroad one argument was that it made easier to quit wars and deployed troops -- most americans are not scared of their children will be sent abroad. it was a profound change after 1973. host: outside of the vietnam, what were richard nixon bostick biggest accomplishments on national security -- richard nixon's biggest accomplishments on a national security and foreign policy? guest: detente. it culminated in something called salt in 1972, and the famous trip to china in 1972. detente -- easing relations in the cold war -- was key to his reelection in 1972, and if watergate had not happened, it could have made him a transformative president. host: how did that play with the more conservative wing of the republican party? guest: they were furious. ronald reagan was absolutely livid with richard nixon, because it seemed to be betrayed everything he stood for when he was president. he had bee

he was the first collected in vietnam-error member of congress.sted interest in wounded warriors. he visited the troops and talked about individual service personnel. he made a difference in this nation's security as mr. defense. in that realm especially, he spoke with courage and clarity. he spoke as a patriot. congressman, murtha made a difference to the people of western pennsylvania in the nine counties that make up the 12th congressional district. he made a difference in people's lives with jobs, job training, insuring pensions, obtaining federal aid, especially after the 1977 flood here. with his tireless work, to help create a favorable climate for a strong economic conditions in western pennsylvania. he made a difference as the longest serving congressman in pennsylvania history. and john murtha made a difference with his many humanitarian efforts, working for the health of his constituents, brain surgery, brain injury program, fighting against cancer, to research, and fighting for good and affordable health care. there is great comfort in

-- and then all the way back to vietnam, our policies have been to support dictators so that we canguest: i have read many of these books and is in major topic in american foreign policy. i would recommend daniel jÜrgen's book on oil whe)e he outlines what america will do for oil, very clearly. the united states has a long they are pro-american. it is troublesome. there is literature on eac$ and every one of these. the situation in iran is one of the mark -- more famous ones. you can read some -- evok-- some work by many james that covers this in an astute and vigorous way. host: next caller, independent. caller: i read a book about lincoln the talked about him being a lawyer. i forget the name of the vote, but it is about a dozen with -- the name of the book, but it is about a jesuit priest. also, gays in the military, [unintelligible] go to jail or join the military. my third point is, i like the attitude of the gentleman who said he agreed, that we have to be positive about this looking at history. we have to rebuild from the bottom up. professor host: brinkley, anything you want

against the war mongers like cheney and bush who were draft dodgers even though they've loved the vietnamto the others to fight them for them. he never told rank and it is remarkable. and told them the board he did participate in. . . surely we should be able to understand that difference between war and passivity. in that difference there are a thousand possibilities. end quote. think of iraq. think of the million iraqis that have lost their lives. think of our own soldi think of our own soldiers and hundreds of thousands coming back with disease and trauma and the horrific memories of what was done there. think of afghanistan, another repertory of the warmongering effort of a government out of control. the government that violates its constitution, its statutes, a government that that is lawlessly bipartisan. i suppose howard zinn's favored definition of freedom might be mine, but i am not sure. and it goes back to marcus cicero, the ancient roman order and roman who, for my benefit defined freedom for all times when he said, "freedom is participation in power." i think that is what he

a candidate i was going to get us out of vietnam. he started the being of his asian program. so i think just saying that, president just saying we're going to begin withdrawing in 2011, july 2011 from afghanistan, that quite a lot of the antiwar lessons who say problem solved. because we are eventually going to get out of here. i think chuck is exactly right on the. that doesn't mean we're going to withdraw from either these countries anytime soon i don't think. >> if i could say first though, i mean, let's be clear. congress authorized both of these wars. i mean, one may not like it, but in fact, they did do it and they haven't, they haven't repealed it. that authorization is there. i think of the president clinton's deployment to bosnia, which is also incidentally announced for a year. i went in with very significant force. there was no violence in that year. it was successful. and at the end of the year, the deployment continued with virtually no public opposition. and so what i imagine lies behind -- i think that president obama

csis grew throughout the 1960s as the vietnam conflict crew. incrementally we committed half a million men with body counts, incrementalism, light at the end of the tunnel. the national -- burke was beside himself with this strategy. national security advisor came over and we had the young presidents who's here. and he said, victory is just over the horizon. we're back to breakthrough. we had an after-action on tet. there was three-star general back from vietnam that came to that. and he assured admiral burke that we actually won in south vietnam because the vietcong infrastructure had been destroyed. and burke said, general, it's not aimed at south vietnam. he's aimed at the battle of washington. and he's won it. the president's decided not to run again as commander in chief. burke knew that maximum napoleon, that the 3 to 1 the psychological and the human factors, napoleon thought they were more important than his armies. i was pulled in as secretary of state for congressional relations in 1970. he didn't like that. gave me an ultimatum to ge

what we learned in vietnam -- the gentleman that you are sitting next to is a vietnam veteran, and so am i.. i had two flying tours. i have written a book about one of the missions in vietnam that sold a lot more than my book on racial integration sold. we never lost a battle but we did lose the war. the strategy was bad. these two or colleges -- these two war colleges also teach strategy, so does george town. if you do not get the strategy right, you get nothing right. we emphasize strategy by teaching case studies were strategies worked and where they did not work. that is true of all the war colleges. at the strategic level, we cannot teach enough strategy. >> my father was in the 477. he was one of the 100 in the mutiny. >> 105. >> 105? i recently heard about the mutiny. i found a book. can you tell me about it? >> i was not with the squadron when they rebelled in indiana. they had white officers. they were moved there because they tried to get that bomber squadron up to speed so it could go to the south pacific. i was down at tuskegee. they put me in that bomber and trained me so

and of course that is what lyndon johnson said during the vietnam war. if you know what i know -- but you can't of course. >> host: at the bay of pigs the recent scholarship also suggested one of the reasons they went ahead with it is they also expected if not an uprising a successful assassination of castro street and the mafia working on the secret plots as well. a combination -- biskupic could do that without the invasion though. they treated it over and over. >> host: hundreds of times. >> guest: that's another example. president kennedy said there is no -- wind the cubin missiles were put in cuba, there is no conceivable defensive justification for the missiles being there so they obviously are offensive. they are there just to attack us. well, there was a very conceivable defensive reason. fidel castro knew they were plotting his assassination and sele touching his crops and minding his harbors and so he thought there was an invasion coming. and he had to protect himself the we he knew how. after all it was informally in his interest to make himsel

. >> we're having so far 350 chairs made in vietnam and mexico, and all sent to haiti to be distributedo people both with spinal cord injuries and with amputations, usually dual amputation, who absolutely have to get mobility soon, before it's too late. >> reporter: what they'll be getting-- courtesy of non- governmental organizations-- are wheelchairs priced about $200 manufactured in small independent factories around the world. those chairs are designed in this mechanical engineering lab in san francisco, which is where hotchkiss and his staff teach design and construction. hotchkiss got involved 44 years ago after he was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. he learned fast that wheelchairs, even ones that cost several thousand dollars, weren't very practical. >> my first wheelchair lasted me half a block, and the front wheel was then ripped off by hitting a crack in the sidewalk. it was beyond repair. >> reporter: as an engineer, he began studying and observing wheelchairs. >> we started at the end of 1979 in nicaragua. i met some young fellows who were sharing one wheelchair. i was

you know, we got into the vietnam war, which was a stupid war. we're into doors, which we got paid for when you all was in office. you are supplemented these orders on during wars. your talking points all day or how much do you want, yeah, yeah, yeah. but you all didn't pay for these wars and now we've got to pay for them. that's why the $1.2 trillion budget -- why don't you get the facts right, lady. >> host: banks. will get a response from the congresswoman. i've been getting a lot of twitter messages asking you to talk about the war's been on budget in the obama administration budget compared to the bishop menstruation. >> guest: i'll be happy to talk about that. and i want to thank ken for his service to our country. and when you look at the new budgeting process that are going to be put in place and bringing those new costs on budget, rather than running them as supplementals. that is something that as you look at the budget process needs to be done so that there is a regular order to the budget process. unfortunately, as they were approachi

who were exit in the middle east and flowing in, something eisenhower refused to do initially in vietnam. it wasn't bomb power driving that but rather -- >> guest: the fear of communism was always associated with bombing power. >> host: was sent to the soviet bomb power to say whatever lack of restrictions there are in the united states you didn't have to call the congress of the moment of pushing the button. there were fewer restrictions on the soviet secretary. >> guest: but first of all we had the strategic air command and had to have all these bases to handle them and the whole point is we fear the russians because they can attack with their nuclear weapons and therefore we have to have friendly governments to use as a response points with them and the fear of communism after world war ii lead us to set up the nsa, nsa, loyalty classification program, all of these secrecy's around the bomb power and fear of russian bomb, so we to spy on them and on ourselves to make sure we were not giving away things to them and once you have set up that opera at -- apparatus it takes on a life of i

. >>> the first vietnam veteran to serve in congress is in intensive care tonight.erson says that the congressman is suffering from complications following the gallbladder surgery last week. the 77-year-old republican is from pennsylvania. and he is serving his 19th year in cobb. i believe he's a democrat. >>> remember when ground hog day is just one little fellow being pulled out of pennsylvania? well today, we counted at least nine case of animals being counted on the forecast of the weather. let's get to the original. the good old feel. thousands of people are gathering and gobblers, don't you love that name? the gobblers knob this morning to find out the famous rodent that would saddle the verdict. well, he did. that means they are predicting another six weeks of winter. but then the controversy begins. this is staten island, chuck and his forecast, not quite in the agreement with them. you see when they came out of the winter home, they did not see the shadow. they grabbed that winter box. >>> things were not so smoothly in georgia with that leaked. he's probab

but they, for 30 years, since vietnam, went through waterboarding as a training technique. nobody called it torture then. and we certainly weren't talking about a terrorist who cut somebody's head off and helped design the attack on the world trade center that killed other 3,000 people. c.i.a. director general michael aiden said on fox news sunday that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us, the united states of america, safer. it really did work. and the thing that bothers me, instead of using enhanced interrogation techniques to go after terrorists to find out what's going on, we're instead bringing them from guantanamo to new york city. they've stopped that now because it's going to cost $250 million at least and the may cror of the city said he doesn't want that -- and the mayor of the city said he doesn't want that to to go on. but we were going to bring these terrorists who did these terrible things, cutting off people's heads and hanging them from overhangs in fallujah, we were going to bring them to new york and we're providing them with legal

president has seen fit to use nuclear weapons even in the midst of the two protracted wars korea and vietnam. so, i am one of those folks who subscribe to the idea that given the united states overwhelming conventional military superiority in the 21st century and given the catastrophic effects of the use of a single weapon and the globalized 21st century age there is no possible circumstance that justifies work requires the use of nuclear weapons to deal with a bond nuclear threat and as george outlined their useless in deterring or responding to nuclear terrorism which is extremely hard to understand where a terrorist may have acquired such material to build a bomb. so it's -- and second we also have to consider another 21st reality which is that the continued existence of a large number of nuclear weapons particularly tactical bombs increase the risk even if it's a low-risk terrorists may acquire nuclear weapons at some point. for those reasons and others it's important in my view and a father's when president obama will sell the nuclear review in less than a month that the npr should narr

bush went into iraq, he should have remembered what happened in korea and then in vietnam. and i will conclude by saying, the lesson, the current lesson that president obama finks about, knows about and i know this for a fact, because to brag little bit i had dinner at the white house with him and eight other historians and some of his aides and we were raised with him this issue. he is mindful of that. he knows about it. i hope he does the right thing. his administration is on the line the way harry truman's was after he went across that parallel. jim. >> thanks. this is going to be an interesting contrast because know i'm going to take to the last years of the cold war. my book is called "the rebellion of ronald reagan: a history of the end of the cold war," and it is a tough book for people in different ways on different sides of the political spectrum, both liberals and conservatives. it is tough for conservatives because really the thrust of the book after looking through the archives and the evidence, is that reagan really didn't win the cold war, not in the way that

>> you know i think probably the anti-vietnam war movement was what awakened me.sn't old enough to worry about the draft that it was all around and... >> was he for the war? >> yes, absolutely. still defended it until the day he died, you know. >> was he for iraq? >> yes. he thought george bush was -- he was a little uncomfortable with george bush. my dad was more of a eisenhower republican than a neocon, but he was a republican. >> so age 15 and then what about the writing thing. when did you start to write? >> oh yes, we were talking about writing. i started trying to write for publication when i was 12, when i left home, when i was 16 i have 56 rejection slips on my wall. i wall papered my bedroom with projection slips and so i've been writing my whole life. >> when was the first time something was published in a real publication that meant something? >> you know i've never told anybody this, i probably shouldn't but what the heck. it was when i was 16 and i was virgin and i wrote a short porn story for a men's magazine that they paid me a $100 for. >> and publ

. >> host: lbj, a vietnam war? it continue to be funded. nixon?n vietnam right before a brief negotiation here we are. it is watergate. but then the curve of presidential power by congress in here presidents for all these years have pushed the envelope to foreign domestic policy over the edge. it is a two bit burglary for political information that curbs the president's foreign policy powers. how does it get from there to there? it is good to talk about because it is not guaranteed bad people will not be elected, the constitution helps us with the

throughout his career, alexander haig fought many battles, but from west point to torre ya and vietnam and nato, this military man will be most remembered for the battles he fought in the political arena. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead tonight as our broadcast continues this saturday night from vancouver, a dramatic rescue on the high seas when a majestic tall ship filled with students sinks. later, the american medal winner whose already beaten the odds at these olympic games, getting ready to lace up his skates again. symptoms kept coming ba. ...kept coming back... ...or that i could help prevent them in the first place. the problem was that my controller medicine... ...was treating only 1 main cause of asthma symptoms. but there are 2. airway constriction. and inflammation. unlike most controllers, advair treats both main causes. advair treats both main causes. and that helps prevent symptoms in the first place. (announcer) advair contains salmeterol. salmerol may increase the chance of asthma-related death. so advair is not for asthma that's well controlled

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the problem is that we had a vietnam that are raised that all. host: a couple more coming up.indianapolis, were indiana senator evan bayh is announcing his retirement from the u.s. senate. he is the top senator to retire from the body -- the 10th senator to retire from the body. >> thank you very much, and thank you all for joining us today. i know how busy you are. i am very grateful you are taking the time to be with us. i would like to begin by acknowledging some people whom i owe a great debt of gratitude to the first, my wife, susan, who for 25 years has stood by my side with love and support. so much i've been privileged to accomplish. as my father told me the day we were married, "son, you definitely married up." [applause] second, my wonderful boy is, who i love so much and for whom i am so proud. being a father is the most important, i will ever have. next, my staff members, many of whom are assembled in the room today, both past and present. they've worked so hard and sacrificed so much for the people of our state. there is not one that could not have made more money

he is also the first vietnam vet to serve as a congressman. >>> new at 11:00, the fredericks county department need your help. these two men robbed a bank earlier today. they say the pair showed a weapon during the crime and then left in a tan passenger car. nobody was hurt. >>> what started as a minor fender bender ended up with two men drunk along the road hit by a drunk driver. two men had a minor collision so they moved over and stepped on to the showeder. according to police, a person driving an suv slammed into both of them and a 30-year-old and 34-year-old were killed. >> someone got drunk and got behind a wheel of a car and took two innocent lives and took my husband away. >> one was a jiffy lube manager. he had three children. the oldest had just had her third children. rosario was a computer tech nicks. the alleged -- technician. the alleged drunken drive's name has not been released. >>> al qaeda is expected to attack the united states in the next three to six months. that comes in the annual assessment of the terrorist threat provided to congress today. the cia says the report does

i am a vietnam veteran and wasç a captain in vietnam. right now is from lawsuits as opposed to actually practicing medicine nowadays. most of the expense when you walk in is basically taken up by a testing just to cover the doctor in case he is drawn into court. there are so many people out there trying to get supported by the doctor for life or this or that. until we have some sort of reform, we're not going to see any lower rates in the country right now. host: let me get your reaction as to what the insurance companies are saying. they say the weak economy and the relenting rise and the cost of medicare make it increasingly difficult for companies to avoid substantial rate increases, even at those increases provide fresh fodder for democrats seeking to pass the now stalled health care legislation in congress. if they are losing money, they need to raise prices. their reasoning here is that it is costing them more. caller: what happens is that medicare and medicaid does not it is not pay the amounts that covers the cost of the procedur

caller: good morning, i am a vietnam veteran and not opposed to war.tack. and since the soviet union, although that's not politically correct, but i still consider it the enemy of the united states, and red china, they have treaties with iran. and in a great position to attack the united states. they will probably accuse the united states of condeering the middle east oil reserves which in reality and what they want and use that to attack the united states. and we will have this one world government established after the dust settles because the united states will be hit the strongest. host: what did you think of the theory? guest: i disagree with it on many levels. but the question is what does this tension between united states and iran eventually lead to? of course çthe military option is left on the table. no one wants to see another war. not only because çwe are stretched already in çóç afghanistan and iraq. iran çwould be different with afghanistan and iraq. we are talking about a population that is three times larger than iraq, and with an i

csis grew throughout the 1960's as the vietnam conflict grew incrementally. half a million men with body counts, incrementalism, light at the end of tunnel, burke was beside himself with his strategy, national security visor walt came over and we had the young president here and he said, the areas just over the horizon. we're about to break off here in the takeout. that was two weeks before attack. we had an after action on todd. there is a three-star general back from vietnam that came@ @ b and the ultimatum he wrote then i'm retiring in another year. we've got to make things really interesting again. that word interesting is the key to burke's personality. whenever he disagreed, with his superiors or his predecessors, his arguments were interesting and captured his opponent into what he was saying. he attracted them to what he was singing he made them think anew. this became his unusual quality of persuasion, which ultimately became the key to great leadership. burke was a magnet. i arleigh burke's funeral to face and a packed and apple is chapel in a very

bombed vietnam right before peace ago shenzhen's. no consent by congress.ere we are and it's watergate. and you could tell me if i'm wrong, but to me it's the unprecedented curve of presidential power in the history of our country by congress. >> guest: i think that's right. >> host: and hear president for all these years have pushed the envelope as far as foreign policy, domestic policy, on over the edge and whatever theory they wanted to create. and it is a two bit burglary for a political information. that curbs the president's foreign policy. i mean, don't you just find that, how do you get from their to there? >> guest: it is an amazing thing, because first of all, nixon -- it's good to talk about him because the constitution doesn't guarantee that that people won't be elected or that bad decisions won't get me. the constitution helps channels the decision-making process but we still, can't guarantee perfection. and so nixon comes to office. the problem with nixon is that he justified these things and wiretapping, his political enemies breaking two bit

i have written a couple of books on vietnam we solve this problem -- books on vietnam.we solve this problem where they did not go up to the people to get them motivated to stay for the long haul. that ultimately came back to haunt us because people did not understand my we were there, they did not see the need for sacrifice. hopefully, we will see more comments coming from the white house in terms of explaining our commitment and rounding people around the cause. host: louisiana. teddy on the independent line. caller: you have not gotten in right in eight years, and he won five more? you have not gotten anything right. 9/11, you say? what are you going to do when you find out that seven of the alleged hijackers from 9/11 were interviewed on bbc and our allies. what are you going to do when i saw the testimony, on c-span, the christmas day bomber was allowed by our intelligence agencies to get on that airplane. did they know he had a bomb on him when our government allowed him to get on the airplane? host: what about his sentiment. you said you agree with the president o

i've written a couple of books on vietnam and we saw this problem in vietnam where lyndon johnson did not go out and spend much time trying to explain the war to the people and try to get them motivated to stay there for the long haul and they ultimately came back to haunt because i think a lot of people didn't fully a understand why we were there. they didn't see the need for sacrifice, so hopefully we will see more comments coming out from the white house and explaining our commitment and rallying people around the cause. >> host: louisianan, teddy, independent life and. >> caller: you haven't got eight years and you haven't got it right. so what are you doing there? okay what are you doing there? 9/11, okay, 9/11. what are you going to find out? what are you going to do when you find out seven of the hijackers or alleged hijackers of 9/11 were interviewed on bbc tv after 9/11. what are you going to do when i sought testimony on c-span that the christmas day bomber was allowed by our government intelligence agencies to get on that plan? the question remains did they know he had a bo

and up in vietnam?e battle that ended french colonial rule in indochina. sunday night on c-span. >> with your wildest imagination if you were writing fiction you could not have made this up. >> the death of american virtue -- clinton versus starr, he is interviewed by former special counsel to president clinton. çó>> "washington journal" continues. host: we are joined by mark schmitt of "the american prospect," executive editor. you have an article in the january/february publication that talks about the machinery in progress and looking at the president, focusing solely on the president. more broadly -- after a year of a new president and congress, how things look to you? guest: i think it is not quite what a little -- some of us a little more liberal or progressive expected. one of the points i made in that article is there is a tendency to put it all on obama. we come to this great drama of the individual. of course, he is a fascinating individual. but i think it is important to look at all of the in

the pennsylvania democrat was a marine corps officer in vietnam, and was known as a democratic hawk. but in november of 2005, he demanded president bush withdraw u.s. troops from iraq. >> this is a flawed policy, wrapped in an illusion! and the american public knows it. and lashing out at critics doesn't help a bit. you've got to change the policy. that's what's going to help the american people. we need to change direction. >> sreenivasan: murtha had been in the house since 1974, and was scrutinized a number of times over ethical questions. he was 77 years old. the nation's capital and the mid-atlantic region were still snowbound today in the wake of the weekend blizzard. the snow closed down government, schools, and roads, and forecasters predicted even more snow soon. across the region people labored to dig out n someplaces up to three feet of snow. nearly 100,000 power customers were still in the dark. and utility companies warned it could be days before electricity is fully restored. in washington alone federal agencies that employ nearly 230,000 people were closed as many roads

vietnam what on his presidency -- would haunt his presidency.ge the way we fight our wars. many citizens are exempt from the sacrifice required when we sent troops abroad one argument was that it made easier to quit wars and deployed troops -- most americans are not scared of their children will be sent abroad. it was a profound change after 1973. host: outside of the vietnam, what were richard nixon bostick biggest accomplishments on national security -- richard nixon's biggest accomplishments on a national security and foreign policy? guest: detente. it culminated in something called salt in 1972, and the famous trip to china in 1972. detente -- easing relations in the cold war -- was key to his reelection in 1972, and if watergate had not happened, it could have made him a transformative president. host: how did that play with the more conservative wing of the republican party? guest: they were furious. ronald reagan was absolutely livid with richard nixon, because it seemed to be betrayed everything he stood for when he was president. he had