he spent an extensive time in vietnam and saigon and talks about how it is the domestic institutions that matter and the french aren't doing enough to build up local institutions. it is ten years before he is inaugurated. case after case you see this. what the president does before he comes to office tells you an awful lot. >> professor saunders, in sin years if you're right of follow up and you put president clinton, george w. bush, and president obama on here, how will you find that some evidence? to governors, one of senator for a couple of years and then a state legislator as well. >> trickier when they don't have a long paper trail. these three made easy for me. they wrote a lot down and lots of letters. not the age of e-mail. assuming we can get a hold of an e-mail i would look at that. you have to take seriously what they say even though they don't necessarily have a lot of experience. we have, for example, bill clinton challenging george h. w. bush during the campaign for coddling dictators and so forth. and you see a lot of evidence of differences. policy in somalia. george

trying 20 build local institutions to connect the population closely to the central government in saigon, and he's really honing honing in on rebuilding in the 1906s. it doesn't work well, but i'm not trying to explain whether it works, but the model the president chooses, which even if it doesn't work, has profound consequences of the qai the intervention plays out in the ground. >> host: why is it important to know which model? >> guest: well, even if the president changes his mind and changes the model midstream or it doesn't work, you may see years of struggle on the ground or a failed war. it's important to understand why the president goes in with a particular model of intervention. it's also important because presidents don't choose them in vacuums and make decisions in office that have consequences for how prepared they are to undertake interventions. they make staffing decisions, appoint people in the department of defense and department of state and national security council and all over the bureaucracy. they make budgetary decisions, decisions about the institutions 20 create

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orange county, california famously has its own little saigon. but new york city, new york city is the only city in america, i think, that can pull off simultaneously having a chinatown, also a little italy, also a little saigon, also a koreatown, also a little pakistan, a little tokyo, a little panama, a little albania, a little you name it. new york city is not only diverse in its population, new york city is international in a way that no other city in the world, let alone this country is. but still, when the united nations general assembly convenes in new york city, even in a city like new york, you feel it. and you feel it not just because of all the traffic that it causes but because there is a sudden international influx of world leaders and their entourages and their issues. even the protests change. new york city always has protests. but it's only when the u.n. is in session that we have something like this, an anti-iran, russia, china, syria protest being led by activists from egypt, iran, palestine, syria, tunisia, and yemen. in terms

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decision became known, vietnamese students and bloggers organized unprecedented protests in hanoi and in saigon against china's violations of vietnam's sovereignty in the eastern sea. the vietnamese security police were ordered to end the public demonstrations regarding the issue of the islands and detained over 40 activists who were involved in this protest. since early august of this year, at least 13 young patriots have been arrested by police and the ministry of public security in vietnam, and several of these activists are prom nentbloggers such as the -- prominent bloggers such as the congregation of the most holy redeemer for this same issue. as a co-sponsor of house resolution 352, i call for framework in accordance to the united nations convention on the law of the sea for a peaceful concurrent resolution to this conflict. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california rise? without objection. mrs. capps: madam speaker, as i traveled through my district t

was on a helicopter when his aircraft took fire from viet cong in a hamlet about 90 miles north of saigon. the helicopter lifted off for safety, but left chuck with four other men and just two guns between them to huddle against the ground as mortar shells exploded 15 feet awade and small-arm fires whizzed overhead. well, they came back and they rescued them and the story went on. he was fearless. chuck, when he came to the senate, he really took on the culture of the senate. he didn't like a lot of what he saw. and i'm looking, as he speak now, at pages. he thought there was no reason why girls could not be senate pages, just as easily as boys. but that was the custom then. girls were not deemed to be able to do that. there was an attitude here in the senate then that the opportunity of being a page was suited for boys. and during the debate, interestingly, some senators worried about girl pages not being able to carry copies of the "congressional record" to the senate desks. he cosponsored the equal rights amendment and spent the better part th of his career arguing tt women should have

was on a helicopter when his aircraft took fire from viet cong in a hamlet about 90 miles north of saigon. the helicopter lifted off for safety, but left chuck with four other men and just two guns between them to huddle against the ground as mortar shells exploded 15 feet awade and small-arm fires whizzed overhead. well, they came back and they rescued them and the story went on. he was fearless. chuck, when he came to the senate, he really took on the culture of the senate. he didn't like a lot of what he saw. and i'm looking, as he speak now, at pages. he thought there was no reason why girls could not be senate pages, just as easily as boys. but that was the custom then. girls were not deemed to be able to do that. there was an attitude here in the senate then that the opportunity of being a page was suited for boys. and during the debate, interestingly, some senators worried about girl pages not being able to carry copies of the "congressional record" to the senate desks. he cosponsored the equal rights amendment and spent the better part th of his career arguing tt women should have