there was a life after the fall of saigon.o tell us about those particular days, a last group of witness correspondents, kevin delaney, george es pa, pill plant, ron necessary sen, will you join us please? >>> what does it tell us, please? another irishman out of control. i think that. >> the vietcong peace negotiators had just been housed there in saigon for the first time. i want to negotiators had been housed there for the first time. and i want to thank richard pyle for his terrific moral support on this occasion. and i couldn't have been man handled properly without him. so i want to thank him. i hope you'll catch those side burns by the way. eat your heart out, brady anderson. i'm also thankful that both pyle and myself are very politically correct in our tail erma standard uniforms of that day. i was not a correspondent at that time, i was a bureau chief. and our job was to send correspondents and camera crews every day down a lot of dangerous highways. let me share one other vivid memory with you. i went back during th

so there was a life after the fall of saigon.o tell us about those particular days, a last group of witness correspondents, kevin delaney, george esper, bill plante, ron nessen, will you join us please? ♪ >> hi, i'm kevin delaney. you better hold that slide for just a moment, if you would. what does it tell us, anyway? yet another irishman out of control. and i think that -- the saigon police -- we better pity them at this point. the fact is that they didn't want us to go into that hotel, neither richard pyle or any of the other standing there with us. the vietcong, so-called virks etcong peace negotiators had just been housed there in saigon for the first time. i want to formally thank richard pyle for his terrific moral support on this occasion and i couldn't have been manhandled properly without him, so i want to thank him. i hope you'll catch those sideburns, by the way. eat your heart out, brady anderson. i'm also thankful that both pyl and myself are both very politically correct in our tailored men's correspondent uniforms

we took out some maps and they showed us the attack routes they had followed into saigon. they took out their wallets and pulled out some family photos and talked about how long they had not seen their loved ones. and it struck me then that they were no different really than the other vietnamese, the south vietnamese, nor for that matter, the americans. all of whom had been killing each other. they all carried snapshots of missed wives and children and mothers and fathers and they felt the same loneliness. that's how the war ended for me vietnam was our finest hour, a story that was the defining event of our lives and our profession. what a pity so many of our beloved friends died there. for many of us, covering wars will be the biggest thing we do in our lives. our central experience. and it will assure us lasting membership in one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. so we gather here this fall evening to look back over our finest hours, to recapture the excitement and camaraderie of those times to see things the way they were, to review our lives, and to celebrate

in saigon at the war with my reporting colleagues.not in saigon at the war with my reporting colleagues. but after five tours, my role had changed. i was the white house press secretary to president ford. so the end for me began in march 1975 when president ford went to palm springs, california for his annual easter golfing vacation. every day on the first tee and on the 18th green, he was bombarded with questions from reporters who had seen tv pictures of the south vietnamese army dissolving soldier, shoving women and children out of the way to scramble aboard evacuation planes and ships. and president ford dispatched his army chief of staff to assess the situation. and he also sent his irrepressible photographer, david kennerly, whom many of you know, he had spent 2 1/2 years in vietnam for a time. and president ford knew that david would give him a plain english appraisal of what was happening. and he did. david came back and said the generals are bull shitting you. meanwhile the networks had asked the white house to help evacuate hair american and vietnamese staffers as you heard ab

back in saigon you wore a modified safari suit which we called a walking suit.t was usually tan in color. well, in time to combat the boredom, we all had our little pick dill lows about that. i began ordering them in different colors. i had a blue one, green, gray, brown, even white when i showed up at ambassador bunker's house in the white one, they told me to come around to the back because they thought i was a waiter. we had different styles. long sleeves, no pockets, nehru color and the like. one day i dressed up in my black suit which my roommate, john cantwell, an australian told me i looked damn close to wearing black pajamas. but you see, i wanted to be cool because i was going out to meet my wife whom i had convinced to come in to saigon, even though the city was under rocket attack. i also put on black elephant hide boots, black shoulder holster and black shades. i carried a matching black elephant hide briefcase which was, of course, empty, but impressive nonetheless. and as i approached the entrance to the air base, two gis intercepted me. hey, man,

you come back to saigon and here are the official reports. the official report was maybe twice the number of communists and you knew that happened. as if you are writing as i was for the newspaper of record he would quote with the government said and then the next paragraph would be observers on the scene, however, said undercut that claim. >> was your editor in new york -- >> never had trouble. >> in the beginning didn't some reporters have trouble with that? >> in the beginning, yes. there was a difference i think in the beginning in new york they were still thinking that the government was telling the truth and they were not aware of the problems that halberstam worse so aware of and if the embassy was relying on just faulty information. so, occasionally he would get a correspondent dropping in from in the case of marguerite higgins, and she tended to accept uncritically with the embassy was telling and they would file stories that were at such odds with halberstam and milled around the local reporters there all the time got a lot of heat,

tonight i'd like to pay homage to the man who enriched the lives of a lot of cbs people in saigon and around the world. captain julian calendar, a man whose job was so secret, we never could spell it out in stories or expense accounts. he's merged in 1968 or thereabouts in our office of the caravele where we were discussing ways to avoid losing money on the expense account. how about charging for two days when you cross the international dateline. that led to talk on different calenders and eventually captain julian calendar was born. it was a great source. he could not be taken to a restaurant because he couldn't be seen in public. talk about spooks, huh? he had to be entertained lavishly in private quarters where no receipts were available. first, we had to get him on the board, right? when saigon bureau chief david miller went to tokyo, i cabled him, but not directly, through new york. advising him that we had entertained the captain in the usual fashion last night, and he was now on route to tokyo on another secret mission. i suggested miller treat him properly. captain calendar r

saigon. but we didn't have an opportunity to do that. but we had good troops. and they were good american soldiers. and they were vicious fighting men. and i admired them very much. but i think they took a bum rap and i hope this effort helps show the public a little bit that we had some hard -- some tremendous young men on our side. >> mm-hmm. okay. 100 years from now someone's going to be watching this, listening to this. what do you want to tell them about battles of the ia drang valley? what do you want to tell them about the men there, about yourself? >> i would hope that somebody finds a solution other than war. but i don't believe they will. i'll tell you a quick story about my grandson when he was in -- he's my fishing buddy, and he's now a schoolteacher. he went to college, and scholarship, and playing baseball and all that. but he teaches. and when he was about 9 years old, he and i are going up the road fishing in my truck, and out of the blue sky he says grandpa, did they fight wars on weekends? i says, yes. and we drove on around a couple more curv

we had the fall of saigon in 1975 and we do not have an intervening event for the next ten years. what happens? soviet union collapses. >> i think that is strangely -- the way that wes was interviewed about this. he was asked. we saw him at a funeral not long ago. i guess it was 2003. he asked what do you make of the fact that you commanded american horses. we had the terrible set back in southeast asia. and soviet union chas collapsed around the globe. the west has won what do you make of that? he says well, i guess it's the walk of the yankees or something. i just don't know. i think the answer is that this was a very tiff cult period. it was a transition period in america. i think sit palpable in the speeches. we are really passing through. they are assuming great responsibilities without enemies and challenges. they are ambiguous responsibilities that you are seeing. so i think that we had difficulties. i think it is impossible. >> 678% of children are in all black schools. when he left office, 8%. the way he did it was that he quietly engaged southern officials. instead of sa

members of the public, supplemental analysis was done regarding the impact on the tenderloin little saigon area. this analysis, which is included in the document, looked at an additional intersection in and around the tenor line, and a summary of this analysis is presented in the document, 124, and as discussed, it was found it would not have substantial traffic, pedestrian, or bicycle impact in the tenderloin area. nor does it affect the significant environmental impacts or affect the draft eir findings. in addition to the traffic analysis, we also conducted a trip distribution sensitivity analysis. as described in the document, on certain pages, which increased by 64% the proportion of overall project trips going through the south of market and tenderloin areas. even with the distribution, the majority of the projects were assigned to south of market and the tenderloin area, and most of these intersections continue to operate at the same levels of service with impact similar to those discussed in the draft eir. the sensitivity analysis therefore did not affect about tuition of the signif

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i thank you, and i hope you can incurs the mayor to saigon to this. >> any other member of the publicike to comment? >> i want to express my appreciation for the supervisors for supporting this ordinance. we don't want to wait for something to happen and then we try to rally together to do it. this is about prevention of racial profiling and people really getting attacked on stereotyping. that is why that member of the community is working with young people. and also after 9/11, hopefully the mayor will not veto it and will support this and continue to work towards helping us have a better community. i appreciate the fact that the fbi wants to make sure that our nation is safe. a lot of times, they overlap on the laws and rules that we have. we want to make sure it is about san francisco had not connected to any other cities. i would really appreciate that. >> in the afternoon, supervisors. i am here on the council of american islamic relations. i want to say that we support this compromise legislation. we thank the supervisor for continuing to take aledo. it has been a long-time comi

against people, the high explosives are not only aimed at men who bear arms, the american embassy in saigon itself becomes a grim battleground scene as vietnam terrorists single it out for a bomb attack. it is all part of the carefully planned and continuing campaign of terror against both american and south vietnamese civilians. increasingly now, americans are functioning directly in the fight for freedom in this far foreign corner of the earth. the risks are real, just as the stakes for which they are taken are real. but americans risk and sometimes give all that they have half a world away from home because they know that once again half a world away has become our front door. if freedom is to survive in any american hometown, it must be preserved in such places as south vietnam, and as president johnson has pointed out, it is up to us. >> most of the non-communist nations of asia cannot by themselves and alone resist the growing might and the grasping ambition of asian communism. >> because this is true, we intend to convince the communists that we cannot be defeated by force of arms. o

we had the fall of saigon in 1975. we did not have an intervening event anywhere involving the united states for the next ten years. what happens? soviet union collapses. not one intervening event. we did things right. in that period. vietnam, what does vietnam mean? does it mean that america lost a war, or does it mean that the united states is such a dynamic country that they sustained an effort on behalf of a minority in southeast asia. 8,000 miles away. mounting a logistical effort that no other country in the world could conceive of. what lesson did countries around the world derive observing the united states in this period. i think what they saw was an extraordinary effort. and i think that is strangely -- william westmoreland was interviewed about this. he was asked about this 12 years ago. commander of vietnam. we saw him at a funeral not long ago. i guess bob hope, 2003. and he was asked about what do you make of the fact that you commanded american forces in vietnam, and we had this terrible setback in south

i'm talking about two trips to hawaii, saigon, trip to guam, napa valley and several other places. is that correct? >> that is correct, unfortunately. >> that is -- all right. mr. tangherlini, the -- you talk about a total, i guess, of 11 regions, if you count washington. and this was seven, eight, nine -- or eight, nine, ten and 11, i guess. are you aware of in the other areas, any other ongoing investigations that you would feel comfortable talking about? do you know of any others that are taking place, other regions other than this? is this an isolated case for right now? >> so let me just, if you don't mind, reiterate it's seven, eight, nine, ten. region 11 is the national capital region. >> i see. that's fine. >> but as far as ongoing investigations, i think it's actually better if the inspector general speaks to that. >> okay. that's fine. >> senator, yes, there are ongoing investigations. some involving other regions. >> okay. and were they stimulated because of this problem coming up? or were they already under investigation? >> some were stimulated because of this. i would

i'm talking about two trips to hawaii, a trip to saigon, a trip to guam, a trip to napa valley and several other places. that correct? that. >> is correct, unfortunately. senator. >> all right. the -- mr. tangherlini, there are a total i guess of 11 regions if you count washington. and this was 7 -- or 8, 9, 10, or 11, i guess. are you aware of in the other areas, in the other ongoing investigations that you would feel comfortable talking about, do you know of any others that are taking place of other regions other than this? is this an isolated case for right now. >> so let me just, if you don't mind, let me reiterate that it's 7, 8, 9, 10. region 11 is actually the national regional, d.c. >> oh, i see. >> as far as the ongoing investigations, i think it's better if the inspector general speaks to that. >> okay. that's fine. >> senator, yes, there are ongoing investigations. some involving other regions. >> okay. and were they stimulated because of this problem coming up, or were they already under investigation? >> some were stimulated because of this. i'd have to check on exactly how ma

and we'd go back to saigon and we'd write the story and all hell would break loose from the military headquarters, we were told how displeased general hearkens was by our reporting. these advisers in the field who were telling us the truth were part of -- when i wrote my book, i saw their reports. he just ignored them, ignored the reports of his own people. general, we have terrible problems, we're losing the war. schreiver didn't do that. he overcame the technological problems inherent in building these missiles was because he was willing to listen, always listening. and he'd tell his people, don't -- he did not hold progress briefings like harkins did. there was always progress. schreiver hold the opposite. he told his people, look, give me the bad news. i can stand the bad news. i will not fire you for giving me the bad news. i will fire you if you don't give me the bad news, and they'd have a monthly briefing they called black saturday which was -- in which you talked about your problem. because his attitude was if we solve the problem, success will take care of itself. >> come t

showing american soldiers smiling and posing with the corpses of afghans who are said to have been so saigon it's the white house maintains it's just another isolated incident let's and he will accept it strongly disagree this is what happens when an occupation last for ten years and is manifestly failing i imagine that the morale of the troops is that rock bottom they have absolutely no idea what they're doing there they know that the populations in their home countries whether it's this country or the united states are overwhelmingly against the war and this is bound to produce a situation where the occupation becomes more brutal before james they they know that they're on the run they know that the business of training the afghans to take over is actually resulting in a situation where afghan armed forces are increasingly shooting members of the occupying forces so i think that this is a generation of what was already at these are stressed occupation and what the situation will be like when they've gone is this that whatever the difficulties whatever the problems whatever the military sit

he covered the fall of saigon in 1975. phil is the author of a work sufficient including "crossers" which you will be talking about today in into man o' wars including a rumor of war, highly respected book about his service in vietnam and more works of nonfiction. he divides his time between connecticut and arizona and "crossers" is a novel about the border. he tells me is just back from france where "crossers" is in french and i'm dying to ask bill, what is the name of your book in french? >> it's all -- is called clandestine. i probably mispronounced it. >> has book has been called a blistering novel about brutality and beauty of life along the the arizona mexico border. i'm going to direct my first question to phil since he lives down in cochise county. >> santa cruz county. >> santa cruz county, okay, but down in the southeastern part appears on it. in march of 2010, robert printz was murdered on his ranch in cochise county. law-enforcement officials immediately suggested it might have been killed by a drug smuggler an

originally i was supposed to go to saigon, but the vice-president was killed in a commercial plane crash. there were a number of personnel changes. with the dust settled instead of going to say, was sent to paris as the roving correspondent. what that really meant was that in those days unless it was the vietnam almost any other place of the world and probably the least. but even in paris communications said or almost like the dark ages compared to today. most of mike into changes were with the telegrams to read these to take from trough to 24 hours for an exchange. and there were some tense a valid phone calls, but there were the radio type. had to be booked many hours in advance. very unreliable. as a matter of fact that could cost as much as $100 for regular call. then when i was working in the middle east in the 1860's to be cases are even more primitive than that. it we used all the telegrams which reveal that america because there were no long distance calls. solyndra satellites. that situation would actually shape my first big scoop and historic story. during the 1967 middle east

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the japanese had 50,000 troops in saigon vietnam something from french indochina to the philippines or singapore was an easy thing and fdr and general marshall have had the war department warned the bases to go on high alert. the problem is if i had an hour i could go over what happened at pearl harbor. it's a perfect storm of mistakes and everyone there believes they were in command of the win command with the attitude of it doesn't matter any way because we are really not going to be attacked so why bother and that is a very bad way to do it and other commanders had done that but it was 1932 were 34 or 36 and your commander in hawaii, you could have that attitude and you were fine and you could spend two years out in hawaii and not do a whole lot and who cares but in december of 1941, it was a very poor way to run things. i don't think fdr directly knew would be pearl harbor but he knew an attack was coming, and what i blame him for most is pearl harbor because he had given 1900 anti-aircraft guns to other countries and he given away hundreds of fighter planes and i will give the com

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i'm talking about two trips to hawaii, saigon, trip to guam, napa valley and several other places. correct? >> that is correct, unfortunately. >> that is -- all right. mr. tangherlini, the -- you talk about a total, i guess, of 11 regions, if you count washington. and this was seven, eight, nine -- or eight, nine, ten and 11, i guess. are you aware of in the other areas, any other ongoing investigations that you would feel comfortable talking about? do you know of any others that are taking place, other regions other than this? is this an isolated case for right now? >> so let me just, if you don't mind, reiterate it's seven, eight, nine, ten. region 11 is the national capital region. >> i see. that's fine. >> but as far as ongoing investigations, i think it's actually better if the inspector general speaks to that. >> okay. that's fine. >> senator, yes, there are ongoing investigations. some involving other regions. >> okay. and were they stimulated because of this problem coming up? or were they already under investigation? >> some were stimulated because of this. i would have to

the japanese had 50,000 troops in saigon vietnam something from french indochina to the philippines or singapore was an easy thing and fdr and general marshall have had the war department warned the bases to go on high alert. the problem is if i had an hour i could go over what happened at pearl harbor. it's a perfect storm of mistakes and everyone there believes they were in command of the win command with the attitude of it doesn't matter any way because we are really not going to be attacked so why bother and that is a very bad way to do it and other commanders had done that but it was 1932 were 34 or 36 and your commander in hawaii, you could have that attitude and you were fine and you could spend two years out in hawaii and not do a whole lot and who cares but in december of 1941, it was a very poor way to run things. i don't think fdr directly knew would be pearl harbor but he knew an attack was coming, and what i blame him for most is pearl harbor because he had given 1900 anti-aircraft guns to other countries and he given away hundreds of fighter planes and i will give the com

so i would be interested in their reactions and particularly their in saigon what we should be doingto leverage the enormous influence i think we have in iraq and then i will open up to questions after that. seabeck would anybody like to take a shot at that. >> well, you know, i mean i guess it means it depends what you mean by we have influence and virtue of the fact that we are meeting. the ambassador of the united states to meet anybody he wants to meet with from the president on down. that's not the issue and anybody for that matter the question is what is the policy that is being advocated in those meetings? what i see happening in iraq to think in terms of u.s. policy a think there is an 80% solution the conservatives came up with in the bush administration, and the question that i was asked by somebody who works on these issues at the time inside the white house in 2010 is, and i am quoting, how can we call what? so the question is sure he that influence as the ambassador said you don't need 150,000 troops when you have 150,000 troops iraq will run the place but to have influe

i'm talking about two trips to hawaii, saigon, trip to guam, napa valley and several other places.at correct? >> that is correct, unfortunately. >> that is -- all right. mr. tangherlini, the -- you talk about a total, i guess, of 11 regions, if you count washington. and this was seven, eight, nine -- or eight, nine, ten and 11, i guess. are you aware of in the other areas, any other ongoing investigations that you would feel comfortable talking about? do you know of any others that are taking place, other regions other than this? is this an isolated case for right now? >> so let me just, if you don't mind, reiterate it's seven, eight, nine, ten. region 11 is the national capital region. >> i see. that's fine. >> but as far as ongoing investigations, i think it's actually better if the inspector general speaks to that. >> okay. that's fine. >> senator, yes, there are ongoing investigations. some involving other regions. >> okay. and were they stimulated because of this problem coming up? or were they already under investigation? >> some were stimulated because of this. i would have

he covered the fall of saigon in 1975.phil is the author of a work sufficient including "crossers" which you will be talking about today in into man o' wars including a rumor of war, highly respected book about his service in vietnam and more works of nonfiction. he divides his time between connecticut and arizona and "crossers" is a novel about the border. he tells me is just back from france where "crossers" is in french and i'm dying to ask bill, what is the name of your book in french? >> it's all -- is called clandestine. i probably mispronounced it. >> has book has been called a blistering novel about brutality and beauty of life along the the arizona mexico border. i'm going to direct my first question to phil since he lives down in cochise county. >> santa cruz county. >> santa cruz county, okay, but down in the southeastern part appears on it. in march of 2010, robert printz was murdered on his ranch in cochise county. law-enforcement officials immediately suggested it might have been killed by a drug smuggler and

the japanese had 50,000 troops in saigon vietnam something from french indochina to the philippines or singapore was an easy thing and fdr and general marshall have had the war department warned the bases to go on high alert. the problem is if i had an hour i could go over what happened at pearl harbor. it's a perfect storm of mistakes and everyone there believes they were in command of the win command with the attitude of it doesn't matter any way because we are really not going to be attacked so why bother and that is a very bad way to do it and other commanders had done that but it was 1932 were 34 or 36 and your commander in hawaii, you could have that attitude and you were fine and you could spend two years out in hawaii and not do a whole lot and who cares but in december of 1941, it was a very poor way to run things. i don't think fdr directly knew would be pearl harbor but he knew an attack was coming, and what i blame him for most is pearl harbor because he had given 1900 anti-aircraft guns to other countries and he given away hundreds of fighter planes and i will give the com

he covered the fall of saigon in 1975.phil is the author of a work sufficient including "crossers" which you will be talking about today in into man o' wars including a rumor of war, highly respected book about his service in vietnam and more works of nonfiction. he divides his time between connecticut and arizona and "crossers" is a novel about the border. he tells me is just back from france where "crossers" is in french and i'm dying to ask bill, what is the name of your book in french? >> it's all -- is called clandestine. i probably mispronounced it. >> has book has been called a blistering novel about brutality and beauty of life along the the arizona mexico border. i'm going to direct my first question to phil since he lives down in cochise county. >> santa cruz county. >> santa cruz county, okay, but down in the southeastern part appears on it. in march of 2010, robert printz was murdered on his ranch in cochise county. law-enforcement officials immediately suggested it might have been killed by a drug smuggler and

i'm talking about two trips to hawaii, saigon, trip to guam, napa valley and several other places. is that correct? >> that is correct, unfortunately. >> that is -- all right. mr. tangherlini, the -- you talk about a total, i guess, of 11 regions, if you count washington. and this was seven, eight, nine -- or eight, nine, ten and 11, i guess. are you aware of in the other areas, any other ongoing investigations that you would feel comfortable talking about? do you know of any others that are taking place, other regions other than this? is this an isolated case for right now? >> so let me just, if you don't mind, reiterate it's seven, eight, nine, ten. region 11 is the national capital region. >> i see. that's fine. >> but as far as ongoing investigations, i think it's actually better if the inspector general speaks to that. >> okay. that's fine. >> senator, yes, there are ongoing investigations. some involving other regions. >> okay. and were they stimulated because of this problem coming up? or were they already under investigation? >> some were stimulated because of this. i would