here in little saigon, we have tried the vietnamese food as well to represent the real saigon. hopefully to make it better and better every day and bring more people here. that is what i want to say, thanks for the help from this city, the supervisors. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. thank you, mohammed nuru. >> awe. [laughter] >> good luck. thank you. >> said it is to follow a in a little bit on what the mayor said, a turtle tower will be expanding. please look for us but we will expand to three doors down here. about 2013, there will not be any problem waiting in the rain are in the sun. we will have a perfect coverage and shelter. thank you for everybody's support. this place means a lot to us. now that we are a part of the community and a prominent merchant for little saigon, we hope we will develop more jobs and provide more services to everybody. thank you. [applause] >> kathy is a product of our public schools here in san francisco and not only speak us in delicia -- english but speaks vietnamese, cantonese, and spanish. she will probably be taking my place. t

it was in saigon, and the american ambassador gave up his bedroom. but that was the only time they had air-conditioning that whole tripe. >> yeah. >> bill? >> can i carry on with liberia? we advanced liberia, and with ten men and one lady. and the lady is here. mary shields, who worked with us. >> and she was on the trip? >> on the advance. mary lou, can you stand up? >> she was in charge. do you want to tell a quick story, mary lou? >> no. well, anyway, the eisenhower is playing, and we had ten men and one woman. and the one woman was mary lou. which is quite interesting. and we did drop an engine there. but getting into liberia. of course, he invited president nixon, of course. president nixon couldn't go. so he sent his best. >> i want to stay on one more thing from the vice presidential years. we have great pictures to go with that. can you talk to us about where the nixon motorcade was attacked. >> that's the centerpiece of the whole vice presidential years. it was a trip that the vice president really didn't want to do. but the state department

people took eddie adams a picture of the police executing a viet cong in the streets of saigon a nine hundred sixty eight nick but another a.p. photographer take your picture of a young girl with the clothes burned off by napalm running down a country road these were very negative images. in the us media turned away from. reporting. from then on independent journalism was regarded as a collateral and a. after the terrorist attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one the bush administration took a chance on trying to control the media and manipulate american public opinion. i think the bush administration absolutely manipulated. the media in america at the time in hindsight of course their justification for the war were more spurious and best and it just they were they were falsehoods one of the things that was most disturbing about the nuclear issue was that. in november the inspectors went into iraq to look at whether there were weapons of mass destruction or programs for the. model darted put out reports that they were unable to find any trace and while it was not possible on

. >> reporter: the children here are just happy that the woman once known as the angel of saigon hasead her wings in afghanistan. nbc news, kabul. >>> that is our broadcast for a friday night and this week. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we'll look for you right back here on monday night. in the meantime please have a good weekend. in the meantime please have a good weekend. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com in the bay area. we'll have the latest on the investigation. >>> also struggling to make ends meet. a new report on poverty in silicon valley. >>> thank you for joining us, i'm diane dwyer. >> the silicon valley remains one of the affluent areas in the country, ceos, ipos making millions. new numbers out this week show the area and the state as a whole is still struggling. david david. >> you don't have to walk the streets of silicon valley, but as you mentioned, poverty and people struggling to keep their homes. >> reporter: they started arriving overnight, braving the elements for what might be an

thank you for joining us here in little saigon. my name is naomi kelly, city administrator for this city and county of san francisco. about three months ago, i had the honor of being on a san bruno avenue with mayor lee when he announced invest in neighborhoods initiative, a program to strategically deployed city resources in our neighborhood commercial corridors more effectively. since then, mayor lee, jennifer from the director of the mayor's office of economic and workforce development, and myself launched the invest in a neighborhood working group, and part of that working group is a committee of representatives of key city departments to my community and business leaders, and technical experts to provide feedback and recommendations that have guided the development of the invest in a neighborhood program model. as you know, in san francisco, we have many programs, many departments, many neighborhood nonprofits that all such our neighborhood commercial corridors. in the past, that we may not have all been on the same page. the

it was in saigon, and the american ambassador gave up his bedroom. but that was the only time they had air-conditioning that whole tripe. >> yeah. >> bill? >> can i carry on with liberia? we advanced liberia, and with ten men and one lady. and the lady is here. mary shields, who worked with us. >> and she was on the trip? >>

maybe one thing you could do, you could find those guys out there in saigon that got rid of old ziem. who was assassinated. and get that gang to send a communique' to us, asking us to leave. and he said, maybe, if our so-called allies are asking us to leave -- i don't know how you get that done. he went on at some time about it. dr. beschloss can give more on this. but lyndon johnson understood perfectly everything i knew about vietnam. everything fullbright knew. everything mike mansfield knew. but he didn't know how, as a sitting president of the united states, to get out of there without looking like we, he was the first president to surrender. in a war. and he was very proud of america, he was proud of our country. and he had great feeling. he was very proud of the united states government. not like these crazy extreme right-wingers that are assailing the federal government day and night on television, wherever they can be heard. he loved, lyndon johnson loved the united states government. he loved the senate, he loved the house of representatives under sam rayburn. he admired the

. >> reporter: the children here are just happy that the woman once known as the angel of saigon hasd her wings in afghanistan. nbc news, kabul. >>> that is our broadcast for a friday night and this week. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we'll look for you right back here on monday night. in the meantime please have a good weekend. in the meantime please have a good weekend. good night.

it was in saigon and the american ambassador gave up his bedroom. but that was the only time they had air conditioning that whole trip. >> bill? >> can i carry on with liberia? we advanced liberia with ten men and one lady. and the lady is here, mary lou shields, who worked with us in protocol. >> she was on the trip? >> on the advance. mary lou, can you stand up? >> she was in charge. [ applause ] >> don't you want to tell that quick story, mary lou? >> no, i'm not going to tell that story. >> anyway, as jack mentioned, we went on the eisenhowers' plane and we had ten men and one woman, and the woman was mary lou, which is quite interesting, and we did drop an engine there. but getting to liberia, president tolbert, it was the inauguration, and of course he invited president nixon. president nixon couldn't go so he sent mrs. nixon. >> bill, if i could, before we get to that story, i want to stay on one more thing on the vice presidential years. we have some great pictures that are going to go with that and i don't want to spoil it. i want to just a

want to jump right now to saigon, june 1963. this is disturbing.re seeing is an iconic image, a monk burning himself alive. he was protesting government persecution of buddhists. now it captured the world's attention nearly 60 years ago but the practice dates back to the late 4th century. fast forward today in tibet, it's become what my guest calls an epidemic. since march more than 40 men have set themselves on fire to protest china's occupation of tibet. cnn contributor is joining us to talk about it. i mean, you know, even just seeing these pictures, it is so horrific. it is so disturbing to realize that people are driven to do this to themselves. you write a piece and you talk directly about the dalai lama, you say he could stop this. he could actually stop this but he's remained neutral. you say if the dolalai lama wer to speak out against the deaths they would stop. in a real sense, their blood is on his hands. can you explain that? >> well, first of all, i think it's important to say that, you know, the blood is also on the hand of the chine

when saigon fell, robbie, colonel rutledge with the first to go in and save him. can you imagine after five years going back in that box to go back gate to pick up by vietnamese soldier? they did that and did the right thing. it takes a person with a lot of integrity to do that. robbie has a lot of integrity. they were on the border and ready to go. brent scowcroft heard about this and sent a raider a car to pick up 19 family members and took them to the airport to fly them back to the states. he is here in the united states today. we did not leave our men behind. that is because of robbie. it will be placed in a proper place in the leadership paul to remind her this man is and is outstanding leadership. [applause] i would like to tell you another story. there is a big statue for lance. thank you for being with us tonight. he graduated in 1965. he won the congressional medal of honor. he began a pilot training. he was assigned to the 366th fighter win as an f-4 phantom pilot. he was tasked with a bombing mission over north vietnam. his plane was engulfed in flames

there is real hope, but of course as you also pointed out just a few years later after the fall of saigon, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people are dying in vietnam. it goes to a different kind of peace, where there is a unified feed non. on a peaceful situation at all. you can look at the price that almost everyone can make in the prize. >> host: i was impressed by some to delete diplomat, ca events they. i was in college or graduate school. he said for 12 years in vietnam buries the terrible war. bombs rained down on every city, town, village in south vietnam and no one budged. no one but sure in that time. it took the coming of peace if you will, the wrong kind of peace descend six or 700,000 out of the south china seas on bits of word or tire or anything that might slow to risk piracy and dehydration. at peace ticky-tacky said. i remember that concentrated my mind a bit when i heard that, but it took peace to send those, almost a million and the south china sea, fleeing in terror. why is that better than war necessarily? >> guest: is one of the interesting thing that doe