when charles de gaulle said don't go to vietnam. we know the terrain. missile be seem badly as an army of occupation and told kennedy you will sink step by step into a quagmire and predicted go broke last two years. so what did we do? relaunched french goods and poured wind down the drain. conversive we should take of the boys and normandie to bring them home because it was no wonder if it resting place. we said he was anti-american and there were demonstrations around the world against the vietnam as a wave of anti-americans. but we ignored for an opinion, we said the problem is they are anti-american and we marched off into the two foreign policy debacles of the 20th-century. there is a problem there. rob nerve wracking mara 30 years later spoke of his regret we have not been able to listen that it was a failure of imagination to realize the french were the best informed westerners on in vietnam. we did not take them seriously because we assumed they had in for us. but i went to the records records, the french archives what his advisers were telling h

mcnamara secretary of defense 30 years later spoke of his regret we could not listen to charles de gaulle it was a failure of imagination to realize the french were the best informed and we did not taken seriously because we assume they had it in for us. i went to the records of the event to look at what the advisers were telling him favor not saying those americans who have no culture but they said they analyzed the intelligence they were getting, a 70,000 french citizens commissar a vietnamese exiles they had good information they tried to share with us that we could not hear it because of the confusing concept. >> host: are there times in history where the entire nation in type feeling of roman empire? >> that is the right question to ask. in the era of the golden age british officials would talk about anglophobia to explain why they encountered resistance. and the explanation was when people rise up for criticize the problem is they don't like our literature or our values we have a phobia for the russian empire they don't understand and they don't like tolstoy. would redoing when we a

done all the official biographies of winston churchill, and they've recently done a biography of de gaulleknowing they were a scientific publisher and were now doing trade books, it seemed ideal for me. so i contacted them without mentioning my relative at all -- it was no influence at all in this -- and they were interested. c-span: is it an american company? >> guest: oh, yes. yes, and i think it's from the 19th century. c-span: and then you have your dedication. and who are these folks? >> guest: my wife, martine, who came to every archive. we worked together. every word of the book, she went over and often criticized, and i rewrote frequently from her point of view. danielle, my daughter who lives in leesburg and works in washington, dc. she's the president of pogo, the project on government oversight it's a watchdog group that investigates fraud and abuse in government and in big corporations. my grandson and my granddaughter, alex and emma. c-span: and where are they? >> guest: my daughter and my grandchildren live in leesburg. my wife is in an adjoining room. c-span: where did you m

in the path, you did not have to pay meters apart after 6:00 at night as kron4 as philippe de gaulleeets as far south as mayor pose a street as far west as seven street and as far east as the embarcadero, parking around at&t park when out take an even bigger bite out of your wallets. not even days monday through saturdays, and your parking in this area from 6 to 10 at night will now cost 25¢ an hour. on the bad days at that price skyrocket to as much as $7 an hour. this means san francisco giant games and events like the world baseball classic, which will be played at at&t park mid- month. salmon is the municipal transportation agency says the changes will make more parking spots are available and help reduce congestion bik and. drivers are not buying that. >> and how this is gonna be a bigger pay and the but, you already have to pay for parking it's bad enough already. >> i live down the peninsula, it makes it hard. parking it is hard to find as it is, with the prices going up at is concerning the a little bit about coming up. >> we have no photographs of the two santa cruz police o