we've been doing this they were is the addition of what becomes modern guerrilla warfare from mao tse-tung, chinese communist leader, famous for uniting china. now, mao from fighting the japanese and then fighting the nationalists in the chinese civil war, he derived his own particular theory of guerrilla struggle. he's very good at blending and taking and modifying their ideas. but he's also very good at developing his own in the process. he famously writes a small book called "on guerrilla war." in 1938 he writes "on protracted war." this was basically his scheme or his outline for how the chinese communists could take control of china, how to defeat the nationalists and also defeat the japanese as well. and his model of these three stages here that we'll talk about here in just a moment, it becomes the model for a lot of other insurgencies, particularly communist insurgencies in other parts of the world. and it also becomes for good or ill, it becomes the way we often evaluate insurgencies to see how far they've developed. again, can you see that's good or not, you can argue that, but i

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the title of the book is from his last conversation in 1976 with mao tse tung, when mao said is peace the only goal that america wants? is that it? is that the goal? my father said no. we have to go beyond peace. we have to build a more just world. et cetera. that was the title of the book. and he predicted in that book that china would be a power house and, of course, it is today. but i think the important thing is that one bond i feel with the johnson family is that vietnam was such a tortorous time for our country. i admired lyndon johnson and his courage and leadership. he was trying to find a way to end that war. and a way that he was in negotiations, et cetera. i remember that i wrote in my diary the day before the election, i said, you know, if daddy is elected president i just fear that the nightmare of trying to resolve the war in vietnam is going to be almost -- and that's what these two presidents have in common. >> there was a very interesting letter. i spoke to ralph many times when i came here to research. he was lyndon johnson's advisor. there's a very interesting lette

mao tse-tung never made person of the year. when "time" decided to acknowledge the american woman in 1975, they had some significant people, billie jean king and others, but they somehow in their list of folks on the cover or pictures of people on the cover overlooked betty fredan and gloria steinem. this is a pretty establishment, up east sort of people. and so i wonder about nominating someone. the person i'm going to nominate, however, achieved probably the first thing he did in 1862 of great consequence was to frame some legislation that transformed a modern industrial nation, would-be industrial, would-be nation into a modern nation. framed in legislation. this person also near the end of 1862 laid some claim to be a significant emancipator of slaves. and so the person i'm nominating, you all have figured out by now, this creator of a modern nation, this emancipator of slaves, was robert edward lee. pause for applause. okay. let me suggest some of the context here in which lee functioned. because through the first year of

now, mao tse-tung, they talked to mao and the chinese. mao is very supportive of their doing this. and he believed just like ho did that the u.s. would be defeated here and that the u.s. would be forced to withdraw. now, the plan for doing this is pro-pronged. one, military offenses in the rural area, some of it they did early to try and draw off american troops, but they'd also have uprisings in urban areas by other vc units. if this didn't produce a victory, they would hit more times, they would have follow-on operations. these operations would wear undo the enemy, and they'd get americans to surrender or american defeat or a negotiated settlement. now, the first phase of this begins in october of 1967. and they have limited uprisings along the cambodian border. attacks are bloody. they don't really achieve very much. in january of 1968, this offensive really kicks off. they use about 80,000 troops. they attack 36 of 44 provincial capitals, 64 of the 242 district capitals. again, it's all over the country. most of the attackers are vc. 2500 people. and there's several thousand ot

writers, philosophers and thinkers at the time and then i ended up writing my dissertation about mao tse-tung, so very i'm much in the contemporary era. so i've kind of done a lot of things in taiwan to shanghai where i taught at east china normal university and later in hong kong, where i'm going again as a full writer. >> okay that's good. how long did it take you to get through grad school? >> that's right, i did it - it's a lot to absorb but i was - actually it was nixon's visit in 1972/73 that opened up in a sense china to the u.s. they saw it as opening china outward to the broader world and it intrigued me and i said this is going to be big and we need more people to know what's going on between our two societies. >> absolutely and as we are - you were here in the first part of the class and of course where we are in beliefs and believers is we're coming to the end of looking at what we call the ethical dimension which has to do with proper patterns of action looking for the good life and looking towards the social dimension. we've gone through some notes here and we've had a chance to

marx, engels, lennon as did mao tse-tung. another mentions it effects a modern curtain. if this is how it symbolically strikes people, could the cylindrical columns also be seen as missile silos? they said the metal curtains are reminiscent is of internment. one told me quote/unquote the chain-link fences reminded her of the camps. the proposed metal curtains are to provide a screen that would partially obscure the linden baines johnson department of education. we have been concerned, and others would agree that this could be seen as a symbolic affront to one of eisenhower's contemporaries, the majority leader of the senate during his presidency. we do not think the design team thought of these things in advance. frankly, nor did we for a while. but the public criticism does underscore the importance of context with respect to eisenhower's life and times. in addition, we're concerned that the metal scrims will cause ongoing maintenance. any high wind, leaves and trash could easily be caught in the metal gaps, requiring constant upkeep. the same can be said of interactive

and ho made a good effort to cultivate a special relationship with mao tse-tung, and he usually consulted the chinese about every major decision having to do with the war. now, the chinese, they didn't want to see the u.s. establish in south vietnam either. they looked at vietnam in many respects like they did korea. to them, south korea was a place for american bases. well, north korea -- excuse me, south vietnam was in their mind as well. it's like taiwan where the americans, maybe they could build bases. they didn't like that. in mao's view, the chinese should help the north vietnamese as much as they possibly could. and china became heavily involved in doing so. they helped build the north vietnamese army in the 1950s. massive amounts of military aid. during rolling thunder, the american am booing campaign of north vietnam in the late '60s, the chinese gave lots of help to the north vietnamese. for example, this were 80,000 chinese workers that were building roads and railroads in north vietnam during rolling thunder. and this was pivotal because the north, this chinese help is pivota