and nick ut, who was born in vietnam. [applause] >> he joined ap in saigon at the age of 14 years old. this was after his brother, who is also an accomplished ap photographer was killed during the war. nick is best known for the iconic photo he took of a nine-year-old running naked and badly burned from a misdirected south vietnamese air raid. he won a pulitzer prize for that photo. many of the photos in the book were taken by nick. it is an impressive and exciting panel of journalists, whose experience total decades and are collected in some small part in this wonderful book. help me give a warm welcome to the photographers. [applause] nick: we are going to run through some pictures here and then have a conversation and then we will open it up some questions for everybody. >> you cannot see the end of the date there. nick: ok. [applause] [applause] nick: clearly an extraordinary set of images from the book, which is what we are gathered here today to talk about this evening. i thought it might be useful to put this work i

vietnam today. we will pretend that is a company you. many in the movement could not afford to treat the vietnam war as the single issue that they would work on. many communities solve the war as connected to poverty, racism, and other issues going on here. in the civil rights it was very difficult for people to just isolate the war as their only issue. you will see that there are connections the need to be made today to connect all people to the movement for peace and justice. the other view that is not here for -- for reasons that you will understand but i think we can include in the conversation by the refugee perspective. as people we don't choose the size of the war that we are in often. as i told helena, now that the book is out, it teaches the lessons and legacy of the flow antiwar movement. with this i will hand it over to john. [applause] john: you want about 10 minutes, right? ok. well, thank you all for coming this morning. thank you for c-span. i go through periods of addiction with c-span. i ought not to get caught up, but in any ca

army in vietnam had been essentially destroyed. led with the vietnamese, we were getting killed. and there was no end to it. so you've got what amounted to a state of individual mutiny in the u.s. army. >> senseless. just walking down the road. >> i'm not going to walk down it. i'll walk down the trail. >> no. we're going to move out and they're going to be left behind. or i'm going to take the point. they can follow if they want to. it's that simple. we've got a job to do. we're going to do it. >> we are just going to refuse to do it. you may be in jail, but you won't be dead. >> you are supposedly withdrawing, right? i figure since we're going home in the long run, why don't we take it easy? don't go out and look for trouble. maybe just sit down. if they come to us, we fight. but going out looking for trouble for trouble's sake is just wasting more lives. it's absurd. i don't know. >> the people coming over here are a lot different than they used to be. like world war ii people or the old vietnam people. this is the woodstock gene

it's really all downhill from here. >>> my oldest friend in vietnam. guide, to escort, and to report on me back in 2000 when i first came to this country. lin, how are you, brother? >> my brother. >> good to see you. his responsibilities to his employers have never been an impediment to our friendship. we meet where you pick your own seafood out of the tank, and you cook it yourself. you really do look exactly the same. you look good. >> yeah? >> oh, yeah. >> you look the same. no trace of time on your face. >> my hair is white, i have lines on my face. i look completely different in 2000. >> people told me the seafood is from the lagoon over here. it is one of the biggest ones in southeast asia. >> i'm going for some eel. seasoned with lemongrass, green chile and pepper and drizzled with house pepper sauce, grill over charcoal and dig in. >> i have the picture with you. >> oh, you have some old photos. oh, look at me, come on. i look like my young son here. look at that, i look 30 years younger. >> my son. ming. >> he's now 17. >> oh, my god, he's goi

it's only found in laos and vietnam. t's not just about the saola, although the saola is kind of the star of the show. it's the rarest, it's the most charismatic, it's the species that is in the most trouble, we think. reporter: that's why people in the region are being persuaded to hunt as little as possible. a lang lap's family get money from the government, about 30 dollars for three months. they use it to breed fish and buy rice to grow as a crop. a lang lap: it's not hard to cultivate rice, and as a rice farmer, i don't spend so much time away from home. but i can't earn nearly as much as by hunting. reporter: how can you convince people to protect animals? the wwf staff visit villages and explain using simple games. the aim here is to avoid traps while blindfolded. it's hoped vietnam's biodiversity will attract tourists to the region, which would benefit the villagers. the mysterious saola is now known outside vietnam as well. >> more than anything, illegal hunting and destruction of the forests threaten our saola.

in u.s. policy towards vietnam. steven scully: an interesting part is the normalized relations we now have with vietnam. amanda demmer: yes. this is something that i think most americans are not familiar with. they know that relations with cuba were not normalized until very recently but after the war, policymakers extended the embargo that had formally been on the north to the entire country and also refused to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the new, united vietnam, the socialist republic of vietnam. and so for really 20 years, in a formal sense, there are no diplomatic ties. steven scully: there are different ways, one of the biggest after the fall of saigon but also in the years that followed, coming to america. talk about that. amanda demmer: as the communist forces are making advances in the anon, -- vietnam, u.s. officials see the fall of saigon coming. and so the infrastructure is laid to try to secure the evacuation of close american allies that would really face significant reprisals if they have s

from the bush/quayle campaign after the questions were raised about dan quayle avoiding service in vietnamnterpunch ended up going horribly wrong when it turned out one of the people who lloyd bentsen's son served alongside in the texas air national guard while busy not going to vietnam, one of the other people in that unit was vice president bush's son george w. same unit. he also somehow miraculously found himself with a coveted spot in the air national guard unit in texas along with the sons of other prominent families, rather than in a jungle in southeast asia. in that campaign, despite all that back and forth and lots more besides, ultimately poppy bush and dan quayle won that election. they lost the next one to bill clinton who had his own controversies around his own decisions around the vietnam service or lack thereof. bill clinton went on to serve for two terms as president. by the time the republican party was ready to take the white house back again, the republican candidate was the next time around the aforementioned george w. bush, poppy bush's son. the story of his service, h

. >> this is too exhilerating for you, if you can do this type of kayaking in vietnam. >> that's impressive. >> he's operating the paddles with his feet, holding an umbrella in one hand and a camera on the other hand. >> this is awesome, look at that. >> he probably has the best legs in vietnam too. >> they make it look so easy. >>> a crime that your eyes will not believe. >> he shimmies up this pole and comes down with something. >> the unexplained best that will leave you puzzled. >>> plus -- he takes selfies to a different level. >> he takes cardboard and draws out different shapes. >> the simple and beautiful art that will take y breath away. >> i'm speechless. ellin'? no tellin' how much i'm gellin'. you gellin'? i'm like magellan, i'm so gellin'. quit yellin' we're gellin'. riigghhttt. dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles are so soft they make any shoe feel outrageously comfortable. are you gellin'? dr. scholl's. every coconut has a dream. to come out of its shell. to show all the world its true, inner beauty. and then, in an ironic twist, get covered up by chocolate and almonds. almond

in 1993 and 95 against current john rooff. you can see all of the mayoral candidate profiles on our website kwwl dot com. a vietnam-era helicopter is getting a fresh paint of coat this week. the cobra chopper overlooking dubuque's veteran's memorial plaza being repainted to look like one actually flown in the war. kwwl's brad hanson getting a chance to talk to the woman who's been doing the painting this week. and brad, this has been a very personal project for this woman. jennifer luedtke lost her dad when she was just six to cancer caused by agent organe from vietnam. so this project has been a great chance for her to honor him alongside every other veteran. the project based on this photo of wayne burk and the first chopper he flew in vietnam. he was shot down in that one, but his second one is now permanentley on display in dubuque. luedtke spent a total of 18 hours working on this paint job. she says it was a great way to remember her dad. painter) "i felt so connected to him it's not even funny. lots of tears while trying to paint at the same time and making sure that you can make it as accurate as possible

. >>> vietnam is another country in dispute with china in the south china sea. and next week vietnam will host chinese president xi jinping for talks. china's vice foreign minister lu zhenmin said that the talks will cover the south china sea. >> tnslator: there is a difference in understanding between china and vietnam over the south china sea issue. both countries recognize each other as an important partner and are working hard to resolve the issue concerning the waters through dialogue. >> china's foreign ministry said xi will visit vietnam on november 5th and will leave for singapore the following day. he's scheduled to meet the head of vietnam's communist party and president. and will give a speech at vietnam's parliament. china said xi's visit will deepen political exchanges and advance cooperation in infrastructure development. nhk's correspondent in beijing says xi's visit is designed to mollify the impact of the territorial dispute by providing economic and political cooperation with vietnam. >>> in the chaotic days after world war ii ended, a bloody in

if you're able to cut the 30% car tariff and malaysia and the 70% car tariff in vietnam, you can sell more cars. that is the point here. you can create significant opportunity for american workers making those cars. that has been the goal of this particular agreement and that is the case that we will make to the senators and members of congress that are representing states with significant manufacturing presences. that is the case we will make, but ultimately, individual members of congress will have to make up their own mind. >> the european union trade minister spoke about the ttp.

the united states was in the vietnam war. frustrateds quite and disillusioned at what he perceived as an abdication of american leadership in the cold war. he worried about the decline of american. what that would mean for iran. he was quite hopeful that a man nike nexen could -- like nixo could resurrect american leadership. their meeting in tehran is quite extraordinary. advisers told him not to meet with them, they were worried he would be seen as taking sides in american domestic policy. what if you part humphrey or another democratic candidate won the election? will it be the consequences for the u.s.-iranian relationship? he insisted that he would meet nixon, his friend. they have a wide-ranging discussion for two hours, discussing everything from africa to vietnam. you can imagine these grand geopolitical thinkers, well-versed and well-informed, very good on substance, discussing issues. it is a very revealing moment on, ithe shah says to nix am tired of the harvard boys telling me how to run my country. the kennedyg ab

candid opinion of the bombing of vietnam, scrawled across a report from his national security adviser, henry kissinger: we have had ten years of total control of the air in laos and vietnam. the result -- zilch. a top-secret document discovered fact by reporter bob woodward. >> what quite frankly i think changes the historical understanding of vietnam s that nixon, the commander-in-chief himself, realized the failure. >> reporter: according to woodward's research, nixon had already ordered the military to drop nearly three million tons of bombs and would order another million dropped in the year after the zilch memo. >> it takes the concept of military leadership by a head. >> reporter: the document was given to woodward by former nixon aid alexander butterfield, who took it with him when he left the white house. you may remember butterfield as the witness who electrified the water gate hearings by revealing the existence of the secret white house tapes. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. to resign when the tapes revealed he had

in previous administrations, we americanized the war and be in on -- in vietnam. in this prime minister said, we -izing the search for peace. host: what does this mean broadly in war politics in that investors in -- administration? roham: i can almost hear the shah saying those words, he would tell nixon, we do not want to fight until the last american. ae doctrine was part of comprehensive strategy, it was one half of the strategy. the goal of the administration was to redirect american resources, and attention away from what they perceived as a needless engagement, unnecessary commitments, towards the issues that mattered, by which they meant relations between great powers, china, the soviet union, the united states. how to achieve that? the u.s. would have to pick and choose where in the world it confronted soviet adversaries, rather than allowing the soviet union to determine where battles fought. far -- this is it difficult to do come in even the most obscure conflict suddenly takes on an important significance, global significance. the result -- resolved the

, claiming that john kerry didn't deserve his medals, he had somehow faked his apparent heroism in vietnam, once that happened, it was bound to be next that george w. bush's contrasting experience from a that time period when he was serving under somewhat mistier yaw circumstances in what was called the champagne unit of the texas air national guard, after the whole swiftboating thing it was bound to happen this aspect of george w. bush's life would become focus and a lot of aggressive reporting in that election in 2004. >> now president bush's own record of service in the national guard is tonight once again under a microscope. some have requested whether a young george bush failed to report for a time. >> the key question whether then lieutenant bush showed up for required duty between may of 1972 and may of 1973. that's when political opponents like the democratic party chairman terry mcauliffe accuse the president of being, quote, awol. the white house has never been able to produce a fellow guardman. and while there's record showing he served, his superiors don't recall him showing up

rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, she will be active against the war in vietnam, she will be active against south african apartheid. you are showing a picture, one of my favorites in the books, of an older roast a parks protesting outside the south african embassy. she will continue to the end of her life saying the struggle for racism is over. and she will kind of be kind of resolved to keep fighting. and yet i think the way rosa parks is taught is it's taught as a problem we solved in the past when the actual rosa parks said there's much more work to be done. >> host: how did you do your research on this book? where were the papers? >> guest: i had to do a lot of digging. i did, i went to all sorts of around kentuckys, i did all -- archives, i did all sorts of oral history interviews. part of her pape beers were held up -- papers were held up in a dispute over her estate. they languished in new york for about a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation, bought them and recently gave them to the library of congress. and in february they opene

based on this photo of wayne burk and the first chopper he flew in vietnam. he was shot down in that one, bu his seond one is no on display in dubuque. the painter spent a total of 18 hours worrng on this proroct, she says it was a great way to remember her dad. painter) "i felt so connected to him it's not even funny. lots as possible because it means something to that pilot that ywu get this the way they saw it and done it to begin with." shshused oil paint for the project, which she says will last for 15 to 20 years. the pilot of this chopper, burk, was actually shot down a a otal of four times during the vietnam war. he'll be in dubuque to speak at the veteran's day celebration next month. it's coming up on today in iowa... uni football needs a win today! we will have a preview of what they need to do.. in just a bit. addicted to cheese...yes it's a real thing. find out why we have a hard time saying no to some delicious dairy..in just a bit. you're watching kwwl, we will be the republicans finally admit it. >>"republican kevin mccarthy saying ...the comm

in vietnam, he is there in 1963, john f. kennedy was still president.a, he goes there as a private citizen. he sees firsthand what ethnic cleansing looks like. he does that again in 2008, toan in 2007, understand that. when he got into the government, he saw those restrictions firsthand. he wanted to go to refugee camps and food markets and schools and he wanted to talk to people and he felt the altitude was a little high for a lot of the conversations he had as a government official. charlie: tell me about the secret diary. david: remarkable. here he is, we have the letters to my mother, which are beautiful. he is writing for prosperity -- four posterity. in the second act, we have bosnia. in the third act, we had him on the show, different clips, you got a sense of what he was saying. .ow frustrated he was you can see some of the tensions coming to a head with him and people in the white house. he goes to the theater and talks about how brilliant south pacific is at lincoln center. charlie: there is also this. he wanted to create his own definition of

back to the united states and also setting up saudi arabia and iran as the guardians of the gulf in post vietnam kind of realignment. a lot of people when people think about blow back from the middle east they look at the 1980s, the cia, the mujahedin, afghanistan, in a lot of ways that infrastructure was put in place by kissinger. you don't want to find one person responsible for the impasse of catastrophe that the middle east is that kissinger bears more responsibilities that he gets criticized for lots of things but he gets a pass on what he did in the middle east. he started using pakistan to go into afghanistan and destabilized afghanistan, that was beginning in some ways of political islam. i never found -- that was around the same time he was doing the same thing not with political islam but south africa, and olin and mozambique, using proxy states to destabilize potential enemies so kissinger put into place a lot of the infrastructure in the middle east the we are trying to disentangle including arms sales, dependence on arms sales and saudi arabia. i think of it like this. kissinger oft

when i was a young man, i strongly opposed the war in vietnam. t the brave men like jim who fought in the war, but the policy which got us involveden that war. that was my view then. i am not a pacifist. anderson, i supported the war in afghanistan. i supported president clinton's effort to deal with ethnic cleansing in kosovo, i support air strikes in syria, what the president is trying to do. yes, i happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort that we have got to exercise di policemen see. i am prepared to take this country into war if that is necessary. >> sequester terry clinton are you going to be testifying before congress next week about your e-mails for eight months you haven't been able to put it behind you. dismissed it. joked about it. called it a mistake. what does that say about your ability to handle crisis as president? >> i have taken responsibility. i said it was a mistake. what i did was allowed by the state department. it wasn't the best choice. i have been as transparent as i know to be. turn

when i was a young man, i strongly opposed the war in vietnam. not the brave men like jim who fought in the war, but the that war. that was my view then. i am not a pacifist. anderson, i supported the war in afghanistan. i supported president clinton's effort to deal with ethnic cleansing in kosovo, i support air strikes in syria, what the president is trying to do. yes, i happen to believe from the bottom of my heart that war should be the last resort that we have got to exercise diplomacy. i am prepared to take this country into war if that is necessary. >> secretary clinton, you are going to be testifying before congress next week about your e-mails for eight months you haven't been able to put it behind you. dismissed it. joked about it. called it a mistake. what does that say about your ability to handle crisis as president? what i did was allowed by the state department. it wasn't the best choice. i have been as transparent as i know to be. e-mails. asking that they be made public. and you are right. i am going to be testifying. i have been

. >> dad who's served in world war ii, in vietnam now myself and my nephew, i do think it is appropriate that is what we're doing. >> you were these people? to repair the nicknames from mom and dad they were incredible it just isn't what they could do for us bordet's hermann sr. and, jr. and also the august before the family and the example that they set for the west family and that is what i try to water today. >> host: what type of work did they do? >> we were lower and middle-income we grew up in atlanta fans free europe where martin the 30 years from. but after they move to a land said he was a nursing assistant at the veterans hospital my mother was not in the military issue was a civilian worker with the district headquarters in atlanta. >> host: what got you into the military? >> with the data to serve san sending them to hear stories and older brother served as a marine infantry meant and i will never forget the time at easter he said backup replica of a dress uniform for me to wear to church and i was so proud. the day when older brother and dad sat down with me they wanted to b

a decorated veteran, he was accused of using torture tactics he learned in vietnam in creating a culture of abuse to force confessions. that era is over now and a fast forward to a lipping fall out. another victim of his brutal regime has finally been freed. throughout his time in prison he insisted he was innocent and gave his confession under torture but still had to serve the two dozen years. >>> next: a mighty roar. florida's fight against the lion fish. how this under waterut booy became a mens. a a mens. >> the president keeps forces in afghanistan and we look at the afghans who served and how we repaid their sacrifice. that's friday on america tonight. >> lots of snow birds head south at this time of year, of course, but one creature that made florida's golden shores its home is deemed a vicious threat and a threat to other specious ease and to those who try to stop it. the trail of a killer. >> reporter: it's hard to believe a fish this beautiful, this fragile looking could be a men ace. but the lion fish is just that. >> they don't fear anything. >> reporter: he has made hundred

his brother was in vietnam. he is hearing all these stories about what is going on over there.ie is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially he did not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. ♪ yeah, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to 3u9 out "what's going on," barry tells marvin, okay, if you're right, i'll learn something. if i'm right, you will learn something. of course, as barry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, they put you in one category. they say, he is a soul artist. that's all they expect for you to sing. that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder negotiated his creative freedom. and he used every bit of it. ♪ every superstition ♪ writing'

reports of ethical and economic tax, the in south vietnam. recurring soviet pressures and west berlin after without that had been settled. iraqical instability in and syria, labour party gains in great britain, one of our main allies. it takes only the briefest stretch of our restorable imaginations to appreciate that this was the new reality the face lbj, and the realization that these were not just academic interests. these are things he faces as being responsible for leadership of the free world. there is much rich material in here for historians. let me shift now and offer a couple of completing thoughts as a recovering policymaker. interaction with the pdb often shaped the policy agenda for those working for him on the staff. as you picked up, the pdb has such a privileged and close l document that only a small handful of white house after the very senior levels have access to it. the rest of us, directors and senior directors and some dmsa to pdb would be episodic and profit by the president's reactions to a particular topic. i suppose i

they put them on a wall in a giant room, and she won this competition, and everyone who died in the vietnam war, their name is there. it is in order of their death. it is the most touching place in d.c. every night, people go into rubbings of the names. it is a very touching place. the veterans did not like it. they said it looked like a stain on the earth, a black marker, a giant tombstone, so they said we want a statue of soldiers, so they put this statue near it, looking at it, so the memorial went in in 1982 -- this statue went in in 1984, all paid by the u.s. government. they intentionally made they what consider someone white, hispanic, and african-american to portray the diversity of the military, and that is a beautiful sculpture. i cannot say anything about it. i love the sculpture, but the women said, "what about us?" women died. 11,000 nurses were in vietnam, and we got nothing. over a quarter of a million women served. well, they did not want to give a statue for women. it became a big fight, and then 10 years later, 11 years later, we get this sculpture by glenna goodacre, and

he's currently in vietnam editing more video. >> how absolutely cool is that, to say i've been to more than 50 countries and i'm going to more? >> you can read 50 books about thailand but you can only really the same sort of approach of this guy. it's an inspiration to everyone watching. >>> if you love cheese, stinky, delicious cheese, you will understand this boy's heartache. >> it's not stinky enough! >> it's not stinky enough? >> he wants the stinkiest of stingiest. >> did you smell it? [ crying ] >> no. >> mom is trying to pass off white cabot cheddar. >> just because they're young it doesn't mean they don't know what they like. he's three years old and he's already a little barber. >> he's three years old, after all. >> that's why he shouldn't the have daddy's clippers. >> looks good. >>> parents are having a giggle at their child's expense because she's trying to figure out siri. i think we all relate to that. >> siri's name is christine. >> my name is anna christine. >> she's giving all the information. >> i'm not sure i understand. >> siri don't understand. >> not a darned thi

including the purple heart and bronze star for his service in vietnam. swan was originally declared killed in action after his jeep hit a mine... throwing him 600-feet down a mountain. swan survived the fall... and spent months trying to get back to his unit. he was eventually located by the vietnamese army and taken to a hospital where he rejoined the u-s military. its taken three months of counting but the totals are in... .the john deere classic was a record breaker.... i actually went back and reviewed and reviewed and kind of did my own little audit because it was a substantial increase. her numbers told the same story.. the golf tournament helped raise 8- point-7 million dollars for charity. that's a 40-percent increase compared to last year. the big winners... the nearly 5- hundred charities the money will help support. every year we receive well over $100,000 and the real beneficiaries are the visually and hearing impaired children and adults who get served. mark you calendars... next year's john deere classic begins august eighth. a little boy's

and you know what i learned in vietnam was pretty simple. hich too many of my friends died, and died, i believed, under circumstances that might have been averted had different choices been made by people in positions of responsibility. and i vowed that if i was ever one of those people in a position of responsibility, i would do everything in my power to make sure that young men and women in america were never sent to war unless it was a last resort. (applause) >> stephen: we're going to take a little break. you can stick around. i would like to have more because it turns out there are other things happening in the middle east as well that are worth talking about. when we return, we'll continue speaking with secretary of state john kerry. join us. i struggle with bipolar depression, and it's hard. ♪ i miss out on life's little moments. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed latuda. there are many forms of depression. latuda is fda approved to treat bipolar depression, which is different from other types of depression. in clinical studies

india and china were engaged in a fierce border war. the vietnam conflict, especially the presence of north vietnamese troops in laos was a persistent concern. civil wars were raging in yemen and the congo. countries that tragically have had more than their fair share of fighting over the years. warsaw pact countries launched unannounced military exercises in eastern europe, and the east germans resumed work on extending the wall along their board were west germany. the fact is america has faced an unending series of national security challenges ever since we emerged from the end of the second world war and emerged as the world's preeminent global power. having assumed the duties and obligations that go along with plead leading the free world, our country's most pressing policy need was not only to counter relentless soviet military and clandestine threat, but to obtain timely, accurate and insightful information on our adversaries' actions and intentions. so it took the united states 171 years before it finally did what every other great power had

was involved in, vietnam, as a case study of how not to get involved in these kinds of situations.ars that putin may be making the same mistakes in syria the u.s. made in vietnam several years ago. to use that time-worn adage, time will tell. >> i hear you. thank you, doug. at the pentagon. pat goodell, sounds like the president wants to divorce himself from the area and putin might have the upper hand in the short term but it will be just short term. >> well, i fear won't bev short-term. -- won't be short-term. our president lives in a fantasy world. like the wizard of oz. everything is illusory, including our training the $100 million man. we did some airstrikes. the russians are showing you how you do it when you want to do it. for 40 years the foreign policy of the country has been to keep russia out of the middle east and now they moved troops and planes and everything else in and it's another disaster for americans, and by the way, we're not protecting the people we're supposed to protect. it's once again -- we have seen this so many places where we have done this, where or w

experience these soldiers suffered here at andersonville, in vietnam, in korea, cambodia and in so manyt themselves. teaches the army much about our enemy and teaching the world much about our nation's values. what we