well, by the time you'd gone through that process -- >> north vietnamese. >> north vietnamese.s too late. you're dead. so what happens in extreme adrenaline modes is that the wiring changes so that it no longer goes through the frontal cortex. you hear the sound. it goes immediately to the amygdala, which is fight/flight/freeze. there's no thought anymore. you just turn toward the sound and fire. and after you've gotten into that position, you are likely to survive way more than someone who hasn't. the trouble is you can't turn it back. because you're now rewired. and that's why it's so difficult for combat veterans. so you get surprised like that. you get -- you hit the cupboard. there's no thought. "i wonder what happened?" i just hit the cupboard. the cupboard was destroyed before i finally started thinking again. i wasn't thinking. and i mean, it's sort of funny. but it's pathetic at the same time. i remember a guy came up behind me in an intersection. he honked his horn. because i was slow off the mark. i was trying -- i had my little girl with me at the time. sophie, one

that also did service against the north vietnamese you cannot get the full view of the vietnam war without reading the regional perspectives and at the time in the united states is a focus on the exclusively american perspective while ignoring the vietnamese perspective but cambodian there are many of their national perspectives we should consider. i think about allies as well with united states have been foreign allies and through steadying interaction and what were the elements to agree and disagree will help us to understand iraq war afghanistan -- of guinness dan. it is works like this that would help. >>host: "in buddha's company" thai soldiers in the vietnam war." . . day professor at the naval academy. thank you for your time. >>host: you may recognize him from a former book and he is back with a new book on the potomac river. where does it start and end? >> it starts in fairfax near west virginia a tiny little circle and it then that point* look out when the river is 12 miles wide and in between there is history. it is where our nation in europe. it also has the nation's capital. >

while historians wrote countless studies on american leaders, vietnamese counterparts, especially those in the north, received shockingly little attention. how do we know so much about the american side and so little about the vietnamese? it just so happens i entered graduate school when arian kyes from the former and present communist world opened doors. i attempted what previous historians could not, to tell the story in hanoi's eyes. i wanted to answer questions that eluded previous score lars. why was the struggle an international conflict, and how did they manage to defeat the strongest superpower the world had ever seen? talk about being in the right place at the right time. although it was difficult for overseas vietnamese to return to the country in the 1980s when i started researching in the late 1990s, things were different. nonetheless, i faced discrimination. as is the case with most societies around the world, it was difficult for me, as a young vietnamese american woman to be taken as a serious scholar of the war in vietnam. this was a weighty topic that only older men dared to tackle

thought -- thai soldiers who fought in south vietnam did service fighting in laos against the north vietnamese, and against laotian communists. so i think you can't get a full view of the vietnam war without reading some of these regional perspectives. i think at times the united states, we tend to not only privilege an american position, but almost a focus on an exclusively american perspective of the vietnam war while ignoring vietnamese perspective, and thai, laos, cambodians, other perspectives we should consider. i also think about allies as well, that these -- the united states is always going to have foreign allies in these conflicts, and through studying our historical interaction with them, what worked, what didn't work, what were the elements where we agreed and disagreed. that will help us understand what we're doing in iraq or afghanistan or other conflicts. so, i think if you want a complete picture of the vietnam war, it's works like this that will help. >> host: "in buddha's company"" the name of the book. richard ruth professor at naval academy is the author. thank you for your

had been a prisoner of war, air force academy graduate, a prisoner of war for 8 years of the north vietnamese. he was dying of pan creatic cancer. he called me and said, why didn't you call me to be this in ad? we said, we knew you were really, really sick. he flew himself at his own expense, up there, was in the ad, he die aid month later. that's how strongly all of us felt, what he defense unbelievable, in '71, '72. it was unbelievable what he did to our own troops in the war in iraq, to make him it is secretary of defense or the secretary of state would be a disaster for our national security. it really would be a total forfeiture of the loyalty that we owe the troops in the field. >> sean: we will continue to follow the story. i know the left is having a collective meltdown at this moment. too bad they don't like to hear john kerries in his own words, it's a stark reminder for the american people. thank you for being with us. coming up, brent bozel with this week's media mash. and today's jobless claims bring more sad news,s obama economy and what you could look forward to the next four y

i did come across documents that the north vietnamese leaders were saying we hope humphrey wins and we should try to help him win. nixon, we would get terrible terms under nixon, and they realized that too late to launch -- trying to help humphrey, and instead the u.s. allies ..n saigon were much here calculating and worked to help nixon win, and he won be a very razor-thin victory. >> thank you very much for your good work. i have a question about the intelligence reports, because before the united states goes into a war with any country, they have to go to the d based on intelligence report. so my question is, is there any politics like on the intelligence, from the intelligence, or they get -- just didn't get it right? >> we just found out ha >> we just found out recently in the national security archives, some thing like two years, if you look at the goal of tonkin documents, like the attack never happened. this gave lbj the blank check to wage war in vietnam. he knew north vietnamese could not carry out the second attack and so again you can see so many similarities with what happ

in the gulf of tonkin crisis in august of 1964 when johnson retaliated by bombing north vietnamese installations but that lasted only two days. during the campaign he acted as they were the moderate vietnam, which is easy to do since goldwater was very much of an issue. so you cannot read it in january january 65. the situation is the same, but on february 7 is arrayed by vietcong in the northern part of the country and south vietnam. some americans are killed in their beds early in the morning and he uses this as a pretext to retaliate with amin of north vietnam. that bombing becomes something no as rolling thunder within a month and were off and running. agent orange in the whole day. amin starts in early 1965. in march of 1965 because general westmoreland in vietnam is saying the americans around the airbases from which these raids take place on with it on the protection. they are being attacked by vietcong. you have to send troops over. so johnson sends a marine in early march on the same day, so that's the beginning of it. and then there is another huge escalation in july of 1965. so you go

cavorted with the north vietnamese and wins the l.a.y award, maybe john kerry could be next year's winner, maybe not george bush but maybe john kerry. or maybe the nobel prize board who gave president obama the peace prize, they can all hang out together. her greatest regret wasn't that, though, greg. she said her greatest regret was not that picture. it was never sleeping with che guevara. >> bob: kerry is a highly decorated war hero. i don't know why you pick on a guy like that. he won those medals when you were sitting at home and not in vietnam. >> eric: i wasn't alive. >> greg: but you should have fought. >> bob: you were 7 in '75? >> eric: whatever. >> bob: don't want to give it up. >> greg: i have a theory as you age, people tend to forget how bad you were when you are young because you gape phony respect. somehow that age makes you more full of wisdom when you were a jerk most of your life. >> dana: look at bob. >> greg: that was mean. >> dana: that was a joke, bob. [ laughter ] >> greg: look at that. look at that. >> dana: i wa

i have not forgotten the years he spent in a north vietnamese prison camp.bout susan rice and these things, this is a man who picked sarah palin to be possibly one heartbeat away from the presidency of the united states. can't have it both ways, even if you're john mccain. >> dan rather, it's always such a pleasure to have you here. i don't know why you honor us with your presence, but i'm glad you're here sir. >> i'm always glad to be here. thanks a lot. take care. >> thank you. >>> you know the expression, vote with your wallet? this election, some donors got back more on their investment than others. way more. you've heard a lot about the people who wasted their money? what's next is the people who really did not. that's coming up. the common wisdom is that that is completely impossible because of the political power of the national rifle association. the nra doesn't want any gun laws and so we can't have any gun law, they're too powerful, they control it. does that common wisdom change at all once you know that this is the truth about the nra right now?

occurred was during the gulf tonkin crisis in august 64 when johnson retaliated by bombing the north vietnamese but that lasted for only two days. during the campaign he acted as if he were the reasonable moderate in vietnam which was easy to do since goldwater was very much a hawk on the issue. he's inaugurated in january of '65. the situation is the same but there is a raid by viet cong in the northern part of the country with south vietnam so the americans are killed in their beds early in the morning and he uses this as a pretext to retaliate the bombing of the north viet nam and that bombing then escalates and becomes something known as royal rolling thunder within a month and we are up and running. agent orange, the whole bit. that bombing starts in early 1965. in march of 1965, because general westmoreland and vietnam is saying that the americans around the air base for which these are taking place on north vietnam, the protection they are being attacked by viet cong you have to send troops over so johnson send some submarines and early march on the same day bloody sunday. that is the be

allegedly occurred was the gulf of tonkin crisis in august of 1964 when johnson retaliate by bombing north vietnamese installations but that leased only -- lasted only two days, and then during the campaign he acted as if he were the reasonable moderate on vietnam, which was easy to do since goldwater was very much of hawk on the issue and wanted to escalate. so he is anything -- inaugurated in january of 1965. on february 7th there's a raid by viet cong in the northern part of the country of south vietnam, and some americans are killed in their beds, and early in the morning, and he uses this as a pretext to retaliate with bombing of north vietnam. and that bombing then escalates, becomes a rolling thunder within a month, and we're off and running. agent orange, the whole bit. that bombing starts in early 1965. in march of 1965, because general westmoreland in vietnam is saying that the americans around the air bases from which these raids are taking place on north vietnam, need protection. they're being attacked by viet cong. you have to send troops over. so, johnson sends in some marines in early

point of view because he was threatening new alliances with the french and maybe even with the north vietnamesewhich was a nightmare from the american perspective. but the american response was also quite imperfect. there were many different branches of government interested. the pentagon was sending generals over every few months for reports, and those reports were really not very good. they weren't accurate. they were advising stepped-up military presence, which turned out not to be the right answer. his political reports weren't great either. and then his new ambassador, who was his friend and also his former political rival, henry cabot lodge -- >> a republican. >> -- a republican whom he defeated in 1952 for senate was very involved in activity that was latent before he got there to work toward a new regime. >> let's listen to this. one the interesting things for me was hearing the fact that george ball was for the coup, who turned out to be the undersecretary of state, and lyndon johnson was against the war. >>exactly. >> it's a minute and 38. >> on november 4, 1963. over the weekend the

i have not forgotten the years he spent in a north vietnamese prison camp.a man who picked sarah palin to be possibly one heartbeat away from the presidency of the united states. can't have it both ways, even if you're john mccain. >> dan rather, it's always such a pleasure to have you here. i don't know why you honor us with your presence, but i'm glad you're here sir. >> i'm always glad to be here. thanks a lot. take care. >> thank you. >>> you know the expression, vote with your wallet? this election, some donors got back more on their investment than others. way more. you've heard a lot about the people who wasted their money? what's next is the people who really did not. that's coming up. eat good fats. avoid bad. don't go over 2000... 1200 calories a day. carbs are bad. carbs are good. the story keeps changing. so i'm not listening... to anyone but myself. i know better nutrition when i see it: great grains. great grains cereal starts whole and stays whole. see the seam? more processed flakes look nothing like natural grains. you can't argue with nutri

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working desperately to bring a negotiated end to the vietnam war he finally got both the north and the south vietnamese to agree to terms of peace and by late september there was only a meeting in paris to seal the deal and then the cia brought l.b.j. a wiretap they'd intercepted between the nixon for president campaign and the office of president of south vietnam million two nixon basically told them that if they refused to go to the peace talks or at least refused to go along with the peace agreement that l.b.j. had worked out with them the nixon would give them a much better deal after the election l.b.j. was furious this was trees and because he could listen to the cia phone intercepts he knew that richard nixon was at the heart of it so he called the senior republican in the united states senate everett dirksen one of the most honorable men to hold a senate leadership position in generations and he told ever dirksen what was going on take a listen. i don't act good at a price shock america back spoke candidate bush playing with a source right. i don't know are good but it's very good but this kind

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north carolina. he was a officer platoon leader in the vietnam war. and he had contacted me a number of years ago because i had some contacts in vietnam vietnamese i had been working with, he had taken a documents and a book from the body of an vietnamese soldier he killed during the war. and wanted to see if he could find a family and return those documents to this them. >> why. he had gone through decades of ptsd, not only because he killed that man, he had a rough war, he killed many people he had seen many of his own men killed, went through a lot of the pat earns that people tend to go through with post-traumatic stress, an adrenaline junkie. he wrecked card, he -- cars, had had a hard time forming relationships. he got married kind of late and his wife was a army brat and seen he was going through the flashbacks, et. cetera, and he remembered that he had said things to his mother and she put him in attic. he blocked the book out of his mind for thirty years, his mother had his letters she had also taken the dairy he had sent and put this in the attic. he went through the letters at the suggestion of his wife and found the book again. it brought