mr. hasting.'d like to ask you this, before he died, president kennedy intended to have 1,000 troops withdrawn from south vietnam and then, of course, he was killed and that directive was not carried out. do you take that as some sort of a sign that he would not have gotten into the quagmire that lbj did and secondly, if you were lbj, what would you have done to end that war in a way which you would have thought would have been satisfactory and -- >> thank you, and i will tell you max hastings, you two minutes to answer that very large question. >> with kennedy, we can never know, i personally think kennedy would have got out of vietnam because all his thinking was directed toward reelection campaign in '64 and he repeatedly said, only so many concessions i can make for the colonies in one year in hope of reelection. but a long day's march between saying he wouldn't have gotten out of south vietnam and we can never know is the answer. i do not think he would have gotten out. as far as for lbj, i d

mr. hastings.nk you for participating in the day. here's an 82nd airborne jumped out -- also the german army when hitler was invading czechoslovakia, was going to stage a to and they would if britain and france supported them but they didn't. you think this would have made a big difference if it had happened and why didn't it happen also, the british journalist said after the war's uprising 1944, churchill became as much an appeaser to stalin as chamberlain had been to hitler. i'd like to know what you think about. >> thank you, we are going to leave it there, that is a lot of information. >> that is quite a mouthful. it's a difficult question whether there was a realistic aspect of the german army before the war. i think the best historian is probably, probably the best account of it. it was no doubt he was opposed to hitler but the german army most support him and i think it's debatable whether there was enough support before the invasion to overthrow but my favorite historian, he says the night

mr. hastings.the end of world i war i about the various parties they had earlier but coming out of world war i, woodrow wilson started and i think it was maybe a french politician said even the good lord, the ten commandments which is pretty good and maybe a britishch said about the end of the war and decided there were 20 million too many germans so not have the treaty to click. >> what is your conclusion? >> just a little bit of a tender in the same spirit about the british, i think perhaps laura gray and other characters decided to butter up our president and contribute to the myth, i believe mason's was his idea all by himself perhaps. >> mike and make psyched california. >> i could keep you here all night if you give me a sleeping bag. i think the short side was never a good way, not a clichÉ among some level one say it was a disaster. it was never going to be an easy way to call and ending after work with the three w empire and enormous legacy but they did screw up. they have the worst worst