your 100 miles off the coast of north vietnam on the uss coral see. february 9. all those character traits, all that confidence, that's who you are. this is bob shumaker on february 11, 2 days later. being captured by the north vietnamese in a flooded field somewhere in north vietnam. in 15 seconds, bob shumaker went from being in complete control of his world, completely sure that nobody in the entire country of north vietnam could shoot him and his f8 consider down. there's no way. that's what happened. he gets hit. he was going to try to say mayday, mayday and evasive got out the syllable may and realized it'd go ahead and punch out he would never finish his medication discipline would've been in the ground. he popped out, ejected under 1000 feet. he thinks his chute opened at about 35 feet, maybe 50 feet. in training he learned to do multipoint landing. you disperse the impact of landing out several different body parts. you roll. is a visited a one point landing. right on his rear end. he fractured his back and there he was in north vietnam without his aircra

captured by the north vietnamese in a flooded field somewhere in north vietnam. in 15 seconds of shoemaker went from incomplete control of his world that nobody in the entire country could shoot him with his crusaders down. no way. that is what happened. he is a hitch but he basically got out the sellable day and realized if he did not get out he would not finish the communication and. he ejected under 1,000 feet the shoot opened at 35 feet maybe 50 and in training you learn to do the multi point planting to get the impact out with several different body parts and will he basically said he did no 1.landing. there he was in north vietnam without his aircraft, without weapons without his aircraft carrier or all the things that made him the world's best fighter pilot. thinking about his situation in the first thought that came to his head was not what should i do next or how do i get out of this but a life-insurance salesman offered to sell life-insurance. he wish he would buy more. he was taken captive february levin, 1965. the war was just beginning and we were th

, that north vietnam would not have taken south vietnam. now, i know most historians listening to me say, bing, you're wrong. but we'll never be able to resolve -- it's a counterfactual, but we'll never be able to resolve it because we did cut our aid. and that's what worries me about afghanistan. >> host: how did you get into the writing business? >> guest: i, i think be you're, if you're a writer it's going to show up. because you feel compelled at some particular point. and it's, you read, then you want to express yourself. it's not like i ever sat down to be a writer. my goodness gracious, never. if i knew you could make a living that way. but i kept coming back to it and back to it. >> host: how many battles have you covered as an author? >> guest: oh, wow. define a battle, where people are shooting each other? >> host: i'm thinking fallujah. i'm thinking you've been if iraq, you've within in afghanistan, you've been in vietnam. >> guest: oh, you're talking a couple hundred. there are patterns to any war, and when i'm out there, i don'

, north vietnam would not have taken south vietnam. most historians listening to me say i am wrong but we will never be able to resolve, it is counterfactual. we will never resolve it because we did cut our aid and that worries me about afghanistan. >> host: how did you get into the writing business? >> if you are a writer is going to show up because you feel compelled at some particular point and you read and you want to express yourself. not like you ever sit down to be a writer. goodness gracious, never. you could never make a living that way but i kept coming the last 2 and back to let. >> host: how many battles have you covered as an author? >> host: >> guest: the final battle, hart senate office building shooting at each other? >> host: you have been in iraq and afghanistan and vietnam. >> guest: 800. there are patterns to any war. generally i didn't wear armor out there. i relied on moving fast and ducking. after a while you can see patterns in war and you know what is going on and it differed tremendously. in viet nam when you

he used that to start bombing in north vietnam. he started bombing hanoi that day. well, it turns out that the head of the cia was in the white house and heard that decision. but head of the cia knew that the cia had information that there was no attack. but johnson when to have and made the decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnam. now, i thought maybe we should have bonded myself, but he has the power. this is nickel. you don't -- policymakers depend on intelligence in practically every case. i don't think that there is any problem. intelligence has improved to the point that it is credible now, thank goodness. i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action. the early directors of the cia resisted taking over the covert action. that is true in the office of policy coordination responsible for covert action. placed outside the cia. that was in the early days and it was not clear exactly how the cia would be organized and operated. turns out to you agree it the cia was initially skeptical of covert action? i don't

attack in the gulf but johnson went ahead and made a decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnamhe has the power, so it's his nickel. policymakers depend on the intelligence in practically every case. i don't think there is any problem with him being ignored anymore. they've proven to the point that it's credible now, think that ms. -- thank goodness. i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action in that the early directors of the cia resisted taking over the covert action, and that is true in the office of policy coordination responsible for the covert action was outside of the cia. that was in the early days when it wasn't clear exactly how they would be organized and operated. it turns out to do you agree that the cia was initially skeptical of covert action. the cia was manned by covert operations experts. dennis fitzgerald -- and i know those people, they were covert action specialists. they know how to do it and they succeeded with it until they got to the bay of pigs. as ait's a kind of things diffe. after they settle down if you look a

many of them were citizens of north vietnam who had been run south because they were catholic -- i mean, literally run out of their homes because they were catholic -- and they were fighting for their country, they were fighting for their freedom, they were fighting for freedom of their homeland -- all those things that supposedly we americans believe in. that's what they were fighting for. it wasn't to support a "corrupt regime" in saigon that they were fighting. that's not what these people were there for. they were genuine patriots and i had great respect and admiration for them, so i didn't like it when other americans who didn't even know what they were talking about for the most part, who didn't know many south vietnamese or knew one or two, all of a sudden talked in those terms about them because, frankly, i was one of them at the time. i was as much a part of the vietnamese airborne unit as any other south vietnamese was in that organization. c-span: col. trung? >> guest: yes. amazing man. absolutely one of the best combat leaders i have ever seen anywhere and certainly the most

north vietnam is not going to tell us one way or the other. we will try to find it for you but we ask that you be quiet. don't talk to anybody about this. just keep quiet. don't talk to the press. don't tell anybody. you don't have to. we will take your -- we'll take care of the. 11955, you're a military wife, your do what you're told to do. you accept this. you trust the government. well, through something genius communications which you read about in the book you learn that the treatment for the pows isn't very good but as a matter of fact, through secret communiquÉ you learn your husband is in the hands of people that are experts in torture and he's inlaid eyes for 16 hours a day. you're government is still not doing anything about it. so these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. they would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, o

boats in the tonkin but he went ahead and made the decision ignoring the intelligence to bomb north vietnam. now i thought maybe we should have bombed it, i felt. but he has the power, so it is his nickel. now, policymakers depend on the intelligence in practically every case. i don't think that there's any problem with them being ignored anymore. intelligence has improved to the point that it credible now. thank goodness. >> i have to turn it over. this is a long one. this question deals with covert action and the early directors of the cia resist the taking over covert action. that is true in the office of the policy coordination responsible for covert action was initially placed outside of the cia. that was in the early days when it wasn't clear exactly how the cia would be organized and operated. it turns out do you agree that the cia was initially skeptical of the covert action? i don't agree with that at all for the simple reason that the cia was manned by covert operations experts. dennis fitzgerald come and i named those people. they were covert action specialists. specialists. they

in north vietnam, and therefore, we had to go to war.our own government, all of these people, when we got these documents, we realized that there had not been an attack. i forget this exchange that we had, but when i got these documents, i was at the l.a. times. i went to tom johnson, a marvelous guy, i have great respect for him. he was our publisher. i went to him, and i said, you were in the white house. you were with lyndon johnson. did you know this? bill moyers was in this white house. i'm not talking about the devil's out there. i am not saying they knew every detail. but going along to get along, not challenging, not becoming a whistleblower, when there had to be many people -- those two that i mentioned, they really knew. -- i don't know that they really knew. but there were plenty of people. when i finally interviewed about it, they said, how did you get that? well, the government released it. it just came out. i was thinking that myself, but they never told us. your basic question is, what is the meaning of this democratic exp

we were given the fact that an american ship had been fired upon on the high seas by the north vietnam and, there are, we had to go to war. our own government, our president, our secretary of defense, all of these people when we got these documents, we realized knew in realtime that there had not been an attack. and i forget the particular exchange you and i had, but i remember when i got these documents i was at the l.a. times. i went down to tom johnson who was our publisher, a marvelous guy. i have great respect for him. but i went down to tom johnson, and i said you were in the white house. you were with lyndon johnson. did you know this? you know? bill moyers was in that white house. i'm not talking about the devils out there. i'm not saying they all knew every detail. but going along to get along. not challenging it, not becoming a whistleblower when there had to be many people -- and i don't know whether those two that i mentioned, they really knew -- but there certainly were plenty of people. when i finally interviewed all these people, they scratched their head and said how'd

states to stop the red menace but unsurprisingly communism didn't take over the world even after north vietnam maintained communist rule and the domino effect anti-communist rhetoric the use of the pretext to invade vietnam turned out to be one shy and sham and even though tens of thousands of american lives were lost in vain that is not prevented the military industrial complex from ruthlessly embarking on similar catastrophic and perilous adventures based on known falsehoods take iraq for example or fabricated w m d's were used as a pretext to occupy the country for over a decade and just like vietnam countless civilians have needlessly lost their lives in another mr active war the pointless nature of these bloody conflicts creates a wall in despair for returning veterans according to iraq and afghanistan veterans of america a vet kills him or herself. every sixty five minutes that means that one thousand eight hundred ninety two soldiers have already taken their own lives in just the first three months of this year but it turns out that the u.s. has learned at least one thing from its faile

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vietnam, mr. locke and the southwest. taiwan is in the north which is the cork in the bottle so to speak for the south china sea. it is about the size of the greater caribbean and in fact, just as the caribbean is called the american mediterranean, i called the asian mediterrane%called the soe asian mediterranean in terms of its centrality to a shed. south china sea as the antechamber. the indian ocean for the global energy interstate. of the oil and natural gas in the middle east comes by supertanker across the indian ocean through the straits of malacca, send duke, honda and other stray sinner through the south china sea in route to the burgeoning middle-class fleshpots at japan, south korea and the emerging middle classes of coastal china. and it's not just oil tankers. the south china sea handles much of the commercial traffic in the world because if the word has an economic economic geographical organizing principle, it's a shed. if the asia-pacific with two of the three worlds largest economies, china and japan. china and japan and south

vietnam war memorial, there's another memorial. this one honors our veterans of the korean war. after world war ii, korea was divided into two countries -- north korea and south korea. in 1950, communist north koreans invaded their southern neighbors. u.s. president harry truman immediately sent troops to help south korea. now its remembered as a war. back then it was called a police action. >> it's best and more accurate to call it a korean conflict. congress never declared it a war. technically, we are still in an armistice, and technically that conflict is still under way. >> whatever you choose to call it, the fighting raged for three long years, much of it in the bitter cold. at the korean war veterans memorial, 19 bronze statues represent the different military services that took part in the conflict. >> they're slightly larger than life-size to depict the hazards, the tough conditions that american soldiers experienced during the korean conflict. >> the memorial has another striking feature -- a massive wall of black granite. look closely and you'll see etched images. you'll also see your reflection in its polished surface. >> so, there

north korea reveals kim jong-un's childhood photos. these never-before-seen pics of a young kim were showed at a concert to raging applause. >>> an american in vietnameath. state media there says that the man was convicted of heroin trafficking. the 41-year-old allegedly tried to carry more than two pounds of heroin onto a plane in june. a network that tracks nuclear tests is giving us some new information about explosions in space. according to documents released by the b-612explosions. four of those released more energy than the atomic bomb that leveled hiroshima. >>> the nypd recently asking followers to share pictures of them with new york cops. take a look. the result not exactly what they had in mind perhaps. >>> so what if food actually rained from the sky? maybe we could end world hunger, some might say. in slow motion, cue the dramatic music, comedian steve cardinal had an entire day's worth of food rain on his head. that's a lot of pasta. this was to raise money for action against hunger. broadcast on youtube. the contributions help to make therapeutic food kits. he doesn't eat very healthfully. that's what he eats in one day? >> that was

and of that we have vietnam and asean and japan and south korea and north korea and the whole asia-pacific, everyone. .. >> for the last two decades has shn that china has no ability to observe the rule of law in many aspects including the ipr, the wto, the manipulation of currency, no reciprocal -- [inaudible] the protection of its own market and many other problems. that's different between communism and democracy. >> thank you very much. >> so i'm asking you -- >> which of us -- >> all of you, how to move toward so that china can observe the rule of law, so we can develop a better trust, and we can have a more stable and peace ful regional and global development especially in the southeast china sea and -- >> ma'am, this is a lot of questions. >> thank you. >> just one, the rule of law. >> thank you. whether china will become a democracy, that reminds me of a book that francisco cook yam ma wrote -- fukuyama with the end of the cold war. basically, what he said in the book is democracy prevails with the collapse of the former soviet union. but what we saw today was, you know, so many ch

north under state control, so it's important to work with partners, and we have to have the capability ourselves to -- >> if i remember correctly you made your first reputation in terms of analysis to the vietnam war. and part of what came out of vietnam war is hearts and minds. >> right, right. >> rose: that seems to me to still be relevant to modern watch if in fact it's a counter-insurgency that you're fighting. >> that's right. >> rose: bought you depend on them for, among other things, intelligence-- i.e., information. >> right, and what we see, what is common, i think, to many of these conflictses-- and, of course, all of them have unique dynamics associated with them-- but what's common i think in syria, what's common with the conflict in yemen. what you see in northern nigeria, what you see in libya today. what you saw in mali. what you see in many other places -- >> that's most of the hot spots except ukraine. >> right. and what you see is you see these transnational terrorist organizations who take advantage of local competitions, political competitions for power, sources and survival and portray themselves as patrons and protectors of one of the aggrieved parties and that's how they

and of that we have vietnam and asean and japan and south korea and north korea and the whole asia-pacific everyone. ..

south china sea between vietnam and malaysia, that whole area that proved to be not an area they really wanted to search. then they went to the southern indian ocean, moved it up north and now back east. so really four major search areas. >> well, we don't even know, wolf, really, what the altitude swings were. if, in fact, were any altitude swings. >> a lot of reports it went up to 45,000, down to 12,000, 35,000. >> right. i mean, and this all has to do now with fuel consumption and distance it would have traveled. there's so much we still don't know. >> and presumably, i can only assume -- and i'll ask you, peter, you were involved in a lot of these investigations. they have information that they're not sharing, whether it's sensitive information, submarines may have collected, other information, tom, from interrogations they're not sharing, because this is now as they say, a criminal investigation. does that, by the way, rule out mechanical? if they say this is a criminal investigation? >> well, it could be a crime to tamper with the airplane and sabotage it. so it could be both still. >> you agree? >> i do. but i think they're looking at the cockpit. and i think

vietnam. thank you and i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. miss foxx: last week was the 44th earth day. since the first earth day in 1970, much progress has been made in cleaning our water, cleaning our air and preserving the beauty of this great nation. it's my privilege to represent one of the most beautiful places on this planet. north carolina's highlands are majestic. you'll find one of the tallest peaks in the blue ridge mountain the scenic blue ridge parkway passes by the side of grandfather mountain. i feel it's my duty to help protect these treasures and i consider myself a conservationist. it's unfortunate, though, that the tremendous success of the environmental musme has head some -- led some self-appointed environmentalists to resort to ever more extreme goals and behavior. maintaining a safe, clean, beautiful, natural world for -- for ourselves, our children,