he then going to take saigon. in their stripped down in the breadbasket but i'm just going to encircle them and take them the same way. get these americans out of here. i don't want to start another war. i will ever have to. he hated us. but my orders are don't start another war. so before the warrant of -- the morning of april 29, the ambassador mark had ordered jim keane to split his msg detachment. he said i need extra people out at the airport. is a defense next to the airport, adjacent to the airport. is where we had run everything during the vietnam war. westmoreland was stationed there. all the big generals were stationed there. it was still the same building but it just advisors. and he said i need men out because he forgot to a helicopter evacuation, it's got to be from the dl, this defense attack shape office adjacent to the airport. so he said i can't put my commit. i would have 55 people. i can't put my command. there's something about the msgs, the only branch of the marine corps that takes the orders

the other thing to be said is that no one in a saigon calls ho chi minh city ho chi minh city. everybody calls it saigon, so that effort to sort of real name and use his memory has never stopped. >> what's the photograph on the front of your book vietnam war? >> guest: the photograph is one of many american bombings and what were known as free fighters owns in the central part of the vietnam. one of the strategies that both of the americans and the vietnamese employee is an effort and particularly central vietnam to just clear the wide swaths of areas. the idea was to clear them, then the national liberation and civilians would not be given to operate as easily as they had. they will be more easily identified and captured or killed. the other idea where juan stila to clear so no one could be in the region so anybody who was, the assumption was they were guilty essentially but that's where the image comes from. >> where do you teach at the university? >> i teaching heard about vietnam and i also teach 20th century international history particularly u.s.

the only thing to be said is that no one in saigon calls ho chi minh city ho chi minh city.everybody calls it saigon, so that effort to sort of renaming and use his memory has never stuck. >> what is the

we are involved with pearls burgers and miss saigon. more than just providing the architectural services, this is action understanding the roots of what is going on in the neighborhood. the san francisco police department's substation is one of our projects and was mentioned before, we talked a lot with steve about the importance of that and stabilizing and providing a presence along sixth street. i think the economics of business development and making sure that people have the opportunity to participate as critical to any of happen along the market street corridor, the other program we have had, there is one that focuses on south the market and the pressure we had a contract with the stabilization fund that provided training for 15 residents to get placed on the construction job. construction is not the easiest job to be placed on and that is not the only equation in the work force. this did give us an obscenity to have a special compensation. what i would bring is the linkage between community based organizations, which we have linka

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little saigon. glass of wine, arts and crafts.behalf of the apa heritage celebration committee, congratulations to all our recipients this evening, thank you for taking part. thank you to the volunteers of the planning committee, supporting organizations, and last but not least, the sponsors who made this celebration possible. great troubles, everyone. see you next year. -- great tavels, -- great travels, everyone. see you next year. >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the pl

little saigon. glass of wine, arts and crafts.behalf of the apa heritage celebration committee, congratulations to all our recipients this evening, thank you for taking part. thank you to the volunteers of the planning committee, supporting organizations, and last but not least, the sponsors who made this celebration possible. great troubles, everyone. see you next year. -- great tavels, -- great travels, everyone. see you next year. i'm robert chief and i'm the park's supervisor in the parks in the sunset district. i've been working here for 3 years. we are 60-70 street below street level. the 64 acre park. the park is divided into 2 sections we are in the stern area. when you get over to pine lake meadow and pine lake, pine lake is considered a natural area. in 1847, the green family came out here, back then this was kind of an empty canyon and sand dun area. they claimed this property. in 1892. george green who's a second generation built the truckdaro club house. there was a hotel then. it was said this was the place to go if

when saigon fell in 1975, he escaped by choppering on to a u.s. warship and settled in the u.s.e as a liquor store owner in california. he was 80 years old. >>> up next, it is not your parents' workplace anymore, but where do you draw the line when summer arrives in a decidedly new era. >>> we're going to close here tonight with something of a generational divide. an example of what happens as new generations come up and enter the workforce and the workplace. if you need evidence that we're a more casual country now, start with flip-flops, say, instead of sensible shoes. there now has been a study of how folks dress at work. and how what used to be beach wear a generation ago goes over these days at the office. our report from nbc's jane wells in los angeles. >> reporter: the american workplace has become a fashion crime scene. anything goes. >> it is almost as if business casual, we have forgotten the business portion and went straight to casual. >> reporter: behaving badly at work isn't new. >> you guys want coffee? >> reporter: but dressing badly is. >> hello. >> reporter: we

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it was nixon's dealings with these with saigon to get them to sabotage the peace talks in paris that they had heard the way for nixon to eke out a victory but also continued the war for four more years and from twenty from an american soldiers died now this is essentially repeated in one thousand eighty it now appears with the with some of the same characters working for the republicans who felt well we got away with in sixty eight we can do something similar in one nine hundred eighty we can sabotage that sitting democratic president and that seems to have worked and reagan's treason just like nixon's treason worked perfectly the iran hostage crisis continued and torpedoed jimmy carter's reelection hopes and the same day reagan took the oath of office almost to the minute the american hostages in iran were released and for that reagan began selling the iranians weapons and spare parts in one thousand nine hundred one and continued until he was busted for it in one thousand nine hundred six or the iran contra scandal after reagan bush sr was elected but like jerry ford bush was reall

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[laughter] hanoi is my place and saigon we fizzled through that but this is a night to celebrate their book. debbie and marvin. i have gone through ridiculously searching for errors. [laughter] but so far i have read the book twice they said it is not necessary for me to memorize it. [laughter] but i find the overdue contribution to literature to vietnam. is the 800-pound gorilla always in the oval office when the president has some make a decision about "war and peace." it does not go away. the gripping impact on america. we know those years who were around in those days. so to catch up bell haunting legacy may it stay there insanity and wisdom and present -- prudence before we embark on a curious inventors. thank you. [applause] >> if you're bernie and a niece ignore my question is successfully as you did it will be a long evening. [laughter] no, no, no. you cannot have many second chances. that is it this story is told of winston churchill at a dinner which he clearly did not enjoy returning to his hostess to say about the desert, madam, this pudding has no theme. debbie, what is th

. >> in 1975 after the fall of saigon, lee and her family flaed vietnam, appearing in this paper. after ending up in a california refugee village with nothing. hedren became a mentor to lee and 19 other women with poor english skills but wanted to work. one thing caught their eye. >> one day we look at her nail and said tippi your nail look butte oofl they loved my finger nails. i thought i'm going bring my man yu curist. she gave them a lesson, they'd practice on each other and on me. >> an idea was hatched. hedren convince aid beauty school to train them for free. they got licensed and tarted doing business. some of the families opened their own salons, building their american dream one coat at a time. >> when other vietnamese would enter the country, they learned about this manicuring business. and it's become huge. >> today, 40% of manicurists in the u.s. are vietnamese-americans. in california it's 80%. pam nguyen runs advanced beauty college. >> we attribute a lot to the actress tippi hedren. she's been called the god mother of the vietnamese american nail industry. it creat

, the whole house of cards came falling down because congress wouldn't let the government support saigon because the local parties weren't able to defend themselves and so forth. i think essentially, if the obama administration can tiptoe out of the ground combat in afghanistan while continuing to support the regime in kabul and continuing to bash the enemies and so forth, essentially you could get extrication even as essentially the war continues. that strikes me as the least bad option at this point. >> is that realistic? >> in your piece you say that the problem is we shouldn't be talking about withdrawal, that we should be doing it. indeed that's what nixon did, he withdrew but under cover of offensive fire. in an optimal world, that's right. but you're leaving out, a, the domestic audience and, above all, the audience of karzai. obama is trapped. he has to make absolutely clear he's pulling out to let karzai know that we're serious, we are not going to stay and back his regime forever. he either has to be willing to cut a deal to fight corruption in his own country. wherever, we are

oh, just before i go in the jungle i got two days in saigon and there's a girl sitting there going, $5t my intention to point out individuals. but actually look at a system that allowed this and continues it allow it. that's what they call these girls, whores of war. it's been going on for decades. >> face it, the war is over. these human trafficking victims are following international missions all over the world and it's that money facilitating this entire organization. >> as we fund the global -- >> that's right. >> peacekeeping business, the money that we're funding is being then used to fund the consumption of women bip the people that are there. >> that's right. >> i wish i did not understand it. i wish you hadn't communicated it quite so effectively. i say that jokingly. you bear and extraordinary story and i thank you for sharing

. >> reporter: in 1975 after the fall of saigon, li and her family fled vietnam and appeared in thisal paper. after appearing at a california refugee village with nothing. hedren, involved in the refugee crisis at the time, became a mentor to li and 19 other women with poor english skills, but who wanted to work. one thing caught their eye. >> one day, we look at her nail, we said your nail look so beautiful. >> they loved my fingernails, so i thought i'm going to bring my manicurist. she came up once a week and gave them a lesson. they would all practice on each other. they would practice on me. >> reporter: an idea was hatched. hedren convinced a beauty school to train them for free. li and the others got licensed and started doing business. some of those families opened their own salons, building their american dream one coat at a time. >> when other vietnamese would enter the country, they learned about this manicuring business and it's become huge. >> reporter: today, 40% of manicurists in the u.s. are vietnamese americans. in california, it's 80%. tam runs advance beauty colleg

i want to preface that by saying i remember visiting a couple years ago in saigon and the american war of aggression museum and watching the propaganda films being played at kikuchi tunnels prior to being able to tour them. >> well, it's an interesting case. back this spring in vietnam i was meeting with a friend of my historian who is now the president of the university and also sits on the city council. and he was telling me that the city that fact war remnants museum to linger serve the useful purpose. this is the way he put it, that is sent -- it is very delicate, but it is. they not effective two racey said. if you've been there you can get a sense of identity so, but also more importantly for vietnamese schoolchildren which is in fact a major audience for that at presidential palace are preserved. and yet he said we don't know what i have to replace it. we don't exactly know what i was sort of stories we think might be most effective to tell about the war. but there is something to do the same that was about a relationship back to america. here in the museum, it's very striking s

. >> reporter: in 1975 after the fall of saigon, lee and her family fled vietnam an appeared in a localer after ending up at a california refugee village with nothing. hedron involved in the crisis at the time became a mentor to lee and 19 other women with poor english skills but wanted to work. one thing caught their eye. >> one day, we look at the nail. we said, the nails look so beautiful. >> they loved my fingernails. i thought, i'm going to bring the manicurist. she came up once a week and gave them a lesson. they would practice on each other, on me. >> reporter: an idea was hatched. hedren convinced a beauty school to train them for free. they were licensed and started to doing business. they opened salons building an american dream one coat at a time. >> when other vietnamese would enter the country, they learned about this manicuring business and it's become huge. >> reporter: today, 40% of manicurists in the u.s. are vietnamese americans, in california it's 80%. tam win runs a college to vietnamese students. >> we contribute to tippi hedren and called the god mother of the indu