area wasrom this transported by boat to road which led to saigon and other cities north of the delta.er and road traffic was frequently intercepted by the viet cong. they terrorized farmers if they were uncooperative. the first battalion was assigned the mission of clearing the area southeast. postructing a self-defense at the junction of the canals. order,ceipt of the captain johnston formulated a plan selecting a position which would command both canals and afford the best route for reinforcements. johnstoning imprest convincing him that advising could work both ways. the plan included preparation of material and movement from the sugar mill area so the entire battalion would proceed downriver to the construction site. companies would remain. as the men split them through, johnston saw -- split bamboo, johnston saw he had one of victory. they were using machetes instead of bayonets. as they prepared to move downriver, men of the battalion were concerned about something. it was not the prospect of backbreaking work and 120 degree heat. their version of chinese new year was two weeks

portion of the only usable road for transport of personnel, sugar, and supplies between the mill and saigonad -- the road led through viet cong-infested territories. however, despite the presence of the first battalion, word was received one morning that the road had been cut during the night. captain johnston hurried to the scene where it was reported that theviet cong were still in area. battalion troops arrived a few minutes later. the battalion commander was at regimental high court is now johnston had learned that khan's workload was such that he could not always be available. the second company tried to intercept the guerrillas but only succeeded in driving them into the jungle. by this time, johnson considered himself a member of a battalion and was aware that the officers and men like to hear him say " we will do this for our battalion." he recommended a course of action remembering that an advisor never commands, only suggests. still inviet cong range,, a 30 caliber machine gun was brought into use. a 60 millimeter mortar crew set up their weapon and began firing. suspects were rou

they take their own mother to come back from saigon to break up a daughter who then goes to the united states and marries the french guy anyway. >> they are still alive, correct? >> i believe so. i tried to reach out to her with letters but they have been unanswered. her husband has published a couple of memoirs and they have been published by a press in canada or perhaps self-publish. >> is one of the things that's remarkable about your book and her story. you mentioned her looks. she is a really striking figure. it's hard to characterize her but this image on the cover really says it all. you all probably can't see it from a distance but she knows how to handle a pistol and especially with the beehive haircut. it's a nice look. >> she did at the fashion thing. it has a high color and of man term color and madame nhu was one of the first to say if you got it flaunt it. she cut the neck down so you could see her caller bone and at the time this was really risquÉ. her brother-in-law says, don't you think that's a little too flashy and she said something like it's not your neck that stic

the national security agency was intercepting cables from the south vietnamese embassy to saigon.e cia had a bug in the president of south vietnam's office, and -- >> imagine that. >> what a surprise. >> when i said it a few years ago, there would be a few gasps. now we know. and lyndon johnson had the fbi put a wiretap on the phone in the south vietnamese embassy. november 2nd, three days before the 1968 election, and chennault calls up the ambassador of south vietnam, says i've got a message from my boss, not further identified. hold on, we're going to win. so johnson knows that the republicans are interfering with this peace talks, but he doesn't have the goods on nixon. he calls the senate minority leader everett dirksen. goes into a tirade. sort of implies he has the goods on nixon. the next day he talks to nixon and nixon kind of gives him an evasive assurances that he would never do that. and make a long story short, nixon never really knew how much the federal government had collected with regard to the sabotage on the bombing hall. j. edgar hoover at his meeting with nixo

. >> monday, november 4th, 1963, over the weekend, the coup in saigon took place.eel that we must bear a good deal of responsibility for it. i should not have given my consent to it without a round table conference. i was shocked by the death of diem. the way he was killed made it particularly abhorrent. >> when that assassination took place, we owned it. it actually started that early in the '60s, in the kennedy administration. >> when kennedy came into office in january of 1961, you had on the order of about 600 u.s. military advisors in south vietnam. by the time he left on that fateful trip to dallas in november 1963, there were more than 16,000. [ applause ] >> john kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed, that america must move forward. >> i think johnson genuinely felt that continuity in the government after this terrible event was essential to retaining the confidence of the american people. >> and now the ideas and the ideals which he so nobly represented must and will be translated into effective action. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] during the cadillac

but the connections between the family in saigon and the kennedy family in washington come is really,it's uncanny. on paper they look like they should've gotten along great. catholic dems, both governments run by a lot of family members, and very anti-communist. so they should have really gotten along well, but as it turned out they didn't, and jacqueline kennedy was a real critic of madame nhu. she thought madame nhu was just sort of pushy, what did she call her? she called her everything that jack found unattractive, when sort oppressed, she boasted about her own marriage to president kennedy saying they had this marriage which -- so what is that? who knows, sort of submissive and madame nhu is anything but submissive. .. starring the power of full comments iconic canadian asian woman. or she's a very submissive kind of geisha girls. so there's these two ways asian women have been portrayed. and so, when women rise to certain level of politic

saigon under fire. >> the enemy in vietnam diminished the myth military strength controls that country american embassy is under siege and terror squads charged in during the night. >> the defensive was an enormous game changer. there were shooting up the american embassy. they had hit dozens of cities all over vietnam. it was a tremendous shock. >> we have known the communist have planned an offensive. we do not think the military operations will be at all materially effected. >> he was unable to be honest with the american people because he was unwilling to simply say this is an unwinnable wall. >> cronkite reel one, take four. >> these ruins are in saigon, capitol and largest city of south vietnam. >> it was the first time walter showed any bias in his public broadcast. >> it's increasingly clear to this report that the only rational way out will be to negotiate, not as victims but as honorable people that lived up to the pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. >> after walter cronkite, johnson's popularity sinks. >> to most ordinary citizens, it's obvious the war ha

saigon under fire. >> the enemy in vietnam has demolished the myth that a live military strength controlscountry. >> the american embassy is under siege. inside are the vietcong terror squads that charged in during the night. >> the tet offensive was an enormous game changer. they were shooting up the american embassy. they had hit dozens of cities all over vietnam. it was a tremendous shock. >> we have known for several months now that the communist planned a massive, winter-spring offensive. we do not think that our military operations are going to be at all materially affected. >> he was unable to be honest with the american people, because, of course, he was unwilling to simply say, this is an unwinnable war. >> cronkite's vietnam report, reel one, take four. >> these ruins are in saigon, capital of the largest city of south vietnam. >> when he went to vietnam during tet, it was the first time, and maybe the only time, that walter had shown any kind of bias in his public broadcast. >> it is increasingly clear to this report, that the only rational way out would be to negotiate, not as

c-span: chief of police in y chf saigon? guy >> guest: yes, national and come chief of ways.ere are c-span: there are a million pygmies people in the united states. - is this- hard? >> guest: almost 2 million. c-span: really? >> guest: yes. c-span: it was hard for you, wasn't hard for you to do what you have to do in this country? ay, >> guest: no, maybe because i a. chrn that way. and when i become the commander in chief, you can ask them and i still talk about people in this. and then everything is actually different.he and from me the position has been a part of it. so when i come here i feel no different. and no difference at all, and mt it's like, okay, they don't botherid me. say c-span: you say if you are different, i have some respectiy and interestou in new and if yo" average, i'm not interested. >> guest: yes. [laughter] c-span: what you mean by that ht ifant if you are different, i have some respect and interest in you. if you y are average, i am not>. interested. >> guest: anyone, this is not the problem. but if

madam nhu was worried saigon was becoming a party. there were pizza stands and, you know, girly bars, all of that stuff starting in the '50s, and she said no, we have to take this seriously. she outlawed dancing along with prostitution, she outlaw hand holding and kissing. she outlawed underwire bras, but she wore them. the best was her sister had been married off young like madam nhu had, and she was married to a guy who worked for the ngo government, and they fell out of love, i guess, you know, it happened. she felt in love with a french guy, a big game hunter. madam nhu thought you can't leave a good upstanding vietnamese guy for a french guy. this is looking sort of colonial. when her sister tried to divorce her husband, she outlawed divorce. the story goes -- there's no records of this, but the story goes her sister slashed her wrist and running through the palace, and it take their own mother to come down to saigon to break out the daughter who then goes to the united states and marries the french guy anyway. >>> and they're st

since c-span: have you been back to n, hanoi or saigon and then?to go you ever intend to go back to .n >> guest: no, not intentionally. but desire and hope, yes. c-span: are you an american citizen? >> guest: not yet. >>hy?n: are you going to become one? >> guest: i think in the future perhaps. c-span: why?ushed >> guest: i don't know. my wife and son and family always pushed me to apply for american citizenship and theyyog say they you are old now and itt is about time and so i think ifl my mother country is vietnam, my so father country is america. so this is, there's nothing wrong with that.your book c-span: let me read what you said in your book on page 332.ce he said if americans knew how ty deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world.e alas, they have not learned enough yet.e a true american feels it is 100d welcome wherever he goes. almost the way that americans treat tr. other people, it almost guarantees that the world willia suffer a more terrible fate. i say this as a friend who understands and admires america, and one a

and for a few hours even occupying portions of the american embassy in saigon. has studiedbody who the tet offensive militarily has concluded that it ended up being a major military victory for the united states and south vietnamese allies, but the facts on the ground could not compare with the psychological effect of the tet offensive, which was to undermine the idea that the communists were out of gas, that they were on their last legs, and that the war was drawing to a close. march, the 1968, by popular challenges to president johnson's renomination within the democratic party by first the antiwar senator eugene mccarthy of minnesota and then senator robert f kennedy of new york, which ended up triggering the president's withdrawal from that election. mccarthy had been persuaded to run against johnson, to challenge johnson for the democratic nomination in the fall of 1967. he wasn't getting anywhere. the tet offensive and until the new hampshire primary which took place in mid-march of that year. if that is for me, i will call them back. in mid-march of that

the new ambassador was sent over to saigon goes with the understanding that he is there to go look for alternatives to the summit has been in power now. and it takes some, there's some false starts but, you know, some real alternatives have finally been identified. the brothers are killed in november 1, 1963, which many of you know that's just a few weeks before kennedy himself was assassinated. so madame nhu is a conspiracy figure in some of these who killed kennedy questions. many think it has something do with madame nhu, but i can assure you it doesn't. but it was a terrible, terrible time. and so kennedy seems really shocked that the brothers had been killed. by all accounts he gets up when he hears the news and he is visibly shaken, can't believe it, they killed the brothers. but he was the one who sort of gave the okay to go ahead and topple this allied country, this from the regime and overthrow the. for him to think they could've got any other way, a little naÏve. >> at the time she was on a tour of the united states. did she believe that if she came to the united states to co

really we should being thinking about the anniversary of april 1975, the last helicopters to leave saigon. this is the visible collapse of american power that is just as devastating as that tragic pull back and will have consequences as serious for the people of northern iraq as they did for the people of vietnam. >> those were sharp edge blast words. >>> it has been 40 years since the resignation of richard nixon. and the public's trust is reaching watergate lows. what's behind this cynicism? next. teh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. "easy like monday morning."s sundays are the warrior's day to unplug and recharge. what if this feeling could last all week? with centurylink as your trusted partner, it can. our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and dedicated support, your business ca

agricultural area and from the even more productive south was transported by boat to roads which led to saigonnd other cities. the first battalion had to clear the area south of the town. and of constructing a self-defense corps post at the junction of two canals near another village. they formulated a plan for the post to afford the boast route for reinforcements. the planning impressed johnston convincing him that planning could work both ways. he was getting many good ideas from his counter part. the plan included preparation of materials. and movement of the first and second companies from sugar mill area. two platoons would be left to secure the c.p. and lieutenant clement would remain with them. as the men split bamboo to transport down river, johnston saw he won a minor but significant victory. they were using machetes instead of bayonets. misuse of bayonets had apparently ended. as they prepared to move down river, men of the battalion were concerned about something and it wasn't the prospect of back breaking work in the 120 degree heat. t. tet, their version of chinese new year. at a

midway for the last ten years in vietnam was not you know being a platform for strafing civilians in saigon and hanoi but was basically a rescue ship you know helping widows and orphans get to america and that's the kind of story he's taking into his political career is his political aspiration as he begins running for president in one nine hundred seventy six is there a straight line from that to sean hannity and two thousand and three saying well my line of business straight lines and history well what was the sean hannity quote saying saying that those people who are out there protesting against the possibility of an iraq war are doing so because they hate america i shouldn't attributed just to hannity but you know this or a. parrot or is ation of the left is america haters isn't that is america haters i mean yeah i mean the people who are right about the war people who learned the lesson of vietnam because they looked hard at the facts and saw that you know you can't win a counterinsurgency war when you have to kind of you're trying to win the hearts and minds of the people while you're

if saigon fell before election day 1972, it would take his second term down with it. so he made a decision. he was going to continue the war to aid his own re-election campaign. >> 25,000 american soldiers died in the interim. they say no one died atwat w watergate. >> it is one much his latest offenses. >> wait a minute. >> maybe i misphrased that. >> the foreign policies are debatable. there's evidence on the tapes, you are right. to say he is -- his crimes were in a significant -- his significant crimes were in foreign policy, i think -- look, this was an assault on the constitution. this was go to the tapes again, nixon sits there and says, well, we will do this, we will break not just random citizens but the democrats, the big democratic contributors. he said, i want -- on that he got the secret service to bug the telephone of his renegade brother. could y you have argued to be president had you to have a renegade brother. that's no longer the case. >> you have a half brother out there somewhere. running around pretty good. >> okay. up. >> i can cut everybody off

if saigon fell before election day 1972, it would take his second term down with it.e made a decision. he was going to continue the war to aid his own re-election campaign. >> 25,000 american soldiers died in the interim. they say no one died at watergate. >> it is one much his latest offenses. >> wait a minute. >> maybe i misphrased that. >> the foreign policies are debatable. there's evidence on the tapes, you are right. to say he is -- his crimes were in a significant -- his significant crimes were in foreign policy, i think -- look, this was an assault on the constitution. this was go to the tapes again, nixon sits there and says, well, we will do this, we will break in here, we will get the irs -- not just random citizens but the democrats, the big democratic contributors. he said, i want -- on that he got the secret service to bug the telephone of his renegade brother. you could have argued to be president had you to have a renegade brother. that's no longer the case. >> you have a half brother out there somewhere. running around pretty good. >> okay. the modera

if saigon fell before election day 1972, it would take his second term down with it.e made a decision. he was going to continue the war to aid his own re-election campaign. >> 25,000 american soldiers died in the interim. they say no one died atwat w watergate. >> it is one much his latest offenses. >> wait a minute. >> maybe i misphrased that. >> the foreign policies are debatable. there's evidence on the tapes, you are right. to say he is -- his crimes were in a significant -- his significant crimes were in foreign policy, i think -- look, this was an assault on the constitution. this was go to the tapes again, nixon sits there and says, well, we will do this, we will break not just random citizens but the democrats, the big democratic contributors. he said, i want -- on that he got the secret service to bug the telephone of his renegade brother. could y you have argued to be president had you to have a renegade brother. that's no longer the case. >> you have a half brother out there somewhere. running around pretty good. >> okay. up. >> i can cut everybody off? i'm

military establishments in kurdistan probably as a backup for baghdad which they might see a repeat of saigon the way things are going to be today so that the country is disintegrating what we can do i least as journalists just keep reporting it accurately and honestly which is certainly not what the u.s. government is doing and not what much of the mainstream media is doing and keep giving the iraqis a voice and reminding people that the u.s. is implicitly involved in this and that the situation in iraq is hellish is that is today because it's directly the legacy of the u.s. and the invasion and occupation of that country crucial story to bring to light thank you for doing a staff reporter truthout dot org and author of beyond the green zone really appreciate your insight thank you. coming up on all the latest on the ground from gaza state. on marriage and the financial world. that's stopping cities and only taking the demand to try to get the economic but it's been like. lib right limousine liberal stricklin and i think the term limits live on our employers split their lives live. did you k

they would attack saigon. president ford gave a speech on april the tenth -- what am i talking about now? seventy-five. and he -- god, he was just bleeding for the congress to please give us the aid that we promised. and a lot of them walked out. they give speeches for the audience. april the tenth. april 17th in cambodia fell. a week later. april the 30th south vietnam. all of that was in april of 75. he pleaded. when south vietnam fell senator fulbright said the command i am being precise, i am no more concerned than i would be if arkansas lost a football in the texas wine. if arkansas loses a football into texas there are not 2 million who died in a genocide in cambodia and another million who stormed out of south vietnam. still a half million in the south china sea people that are still there from trying to scare him. and people who said peace now, they got it. they got it, all right. but they did not say anything about it. there are some marvelous people who did, who really did. one. at every entire vietn

province, and when they were ability to do that, they knew they had this thing won, they would attack saigon. president ford made a speech on april 10th of '75, and he -- god he was jest pleading for the congress to please give him the aid that we promised, and a lot of them walked out. that was -- april the 17th, cambodia fell, one week later. didn't say anything about it. there's some marvelous people who did, who really did -- who did. joan baez put in -- who was in every antivietnam demonstration of any merit, particularly in washington, d.c., tonight an ad out in all the numbs saying they made a concentration camp out south vietnam now that the north vietnamese have taken it over. she couldn't get a lot of hollywood celebrities she wanted to sign that. somebody who has given the rest of his life to this, because he feels so terrible about what he did during the war, in effect supporting the north vietnamese was jon voight. the guy is terrific. he'll just do anything to try to make up for it. there are those people unfortunately there are a lot of them who aren't -- who don't do that. th

way that had never attacked before including occupying portion of the american embassy and side of saigon. almost everyone who studied the ted offensive has concluded it into being a major military victory for the united states and the south vietnamese allies but the facts on the ground cannot compare with a psychological effect of the tet offensive which was undermining the idea that communists were out of gas and on the last leg and the warmth was drawing to a close. 1968, the popular challenges to president johnson's a renomination within the democratic party but first the antiwar senator, maccarthy and then senator robert f kennedy of new york which ended up triggering the president's withdrawal from that election. been persuaded to run against johnson, to challenge johnson for the democratic nomination and in the fall of 1967. he was not getting anywhere. offensive and until the new hampshire primary that took place in amid march of that year and if that is for me i will call them back. thehich maccarthy like close to but came so defeating him it was a psychological victory and a few

they would attack saigon. president ford made a speech in '75 and he was just pleading for the congress to please give them the aid that we promised. and a lot of them walked out, made speeches for the audience. that was april the 10th. april 17th, cambodia fell. april 30th, south vietnam fell. all of that within april of '75. he pleaded. when south vietnam fell, senator fullbright said, and i'm being precise, i am no more concerned than i would be if arkansas lost a football game to texas. when arkansas loses a football game to texas, there isn't 2 million who die in a genocide in cambodia and another million who stormed out of south vietnam. there's still a half million in the south china sea that are still there from trying to escape. and i always feel this way. people who said peace now, they got it all right. but they didn't say anything about it. there's some marvellous people who did, who did. joan bias was at every anti-vietnam demonstration of any merit, particularly in washington, d.c., took an ad ou

and the new ambassador that's sent over to saigon goes with the understanding that he's there to look for alternatives to this family that's been in power now for nine years. and it takes some -- there's some false starts, but some real alternatives have finally been identified. and the brothers are killed november 1st, 1963, which as many of you know, that's just a few weeks before kennedy himself was assassinated. so she's a conspiracy figure. but it was terrible timing. and so kennedy seemed really shocked that the brothers had been killed. by all accounts he gets up when he hears the news and can't believe they have killed the brothers, but he was the one that gave the okay to go ahead and topple this allied country, this friendly regime and overthrow them. for him to think they could have gotten out any other way is a little naive. >> she was on a tour of the united states and she believed if she came to the united states and convinced people that there was a grave threat if the government was not supported that communists would topple south vietnam pretty quickly. she came to th

those living in the area i do want to go to some video because unless you can see also are going in saigon on inside here they are giving breakfast and lunch and dinner way i took some of the number of people like a monster who said you know what we're still dealing with electric and gas water issues we cannot cut get this point that is why were showing up here already about 30,000 meals have been given out at this location in nappa also the red cross set up and let out >> : it has been really hard and of the sit still for 30 after 5:00, so afraid of another earthquake that allow that to happen on a scare from a family of scared for everyone in nappa i could not castillo's us up and as ed the employ because of the electric meth use it >> : this is really frustrating closet totally messed up a schedule + have close respect the stress disorder >> : and you're out here busy for them as well sit far out here close to 500 people filed claims since the earthquake. it's been busy time for everyone here and at one >> : our coverage on the earth quake aftermath than challenges facing valero as it t

he was not a crook, presided in secret over the nation's biggest political scandal, to the fall of saigon and america's first defeat in a war. add in a gas crisis with hour long lines to fill your tank, crumbling cities and an heiress turned terrorist, people felt they lived in a country they didn't know. it provided political soil for an optimist named ronald reagan. for more, i'm joined from chicago by author of the invisible bridge, the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan. >> i was a teenager living abroad back then. i remember thinking america was killing itself with self inflicted windows. you grew up after that period and when you were a teenager in the age of reagan and the 1980's, did you look back at the 1970's and feel america was fogg apart? >> it was far too abstract for me. i was fascinated with the 1960's. every day seemed to bring a new revolution and the 1980's seemed boring. i became obsessed with the 1960's and became a historian. it seemed in many ways that those attitudes had won, but in 1980, reagan gets elected and when you look back at the 1960's, it looks much mor

." >> in saigon today according to officials nothing actually happened. one thing that didn't happen is a bomb didn't explode 14 hours unofficially destroying jimmy's cafe. >> get him out of there! >> reporter: he mixed the phonetic and the funny. >> you do fossey, fossey, fossey and. >> reporter: with the deeply philosophical. >> the poet. the beauty. romance! love! these are what we stay alive for. >> reporter: he was a regular at the academy awards taking home an oscar in 1998, his only one for his role in "good will hunting." >> you don't know about real loss because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. i doubt you ever dare to love anybody that much. >> reporter: according to publicist, williams had been battling severe depression and going to rehab in 2006. >> i went to rehab in wine country. >> are you happy? were you unhappy before you went in? >> i was pretty much everything before i went in and now it's great just to have genuine emotions and being all right with that. >> reporter: his roles were as complex and a

they didn't want to fight for the government in saigon, the iraqis doesn't want to fight for maliki. >> lawrence korp, the former u.s. secretary of defense, and the senior fellow at the center for american progress. >> in bangladesh the families from the ferry sinkings say the government is not moving fast enough. navy rescues slowed. search teams cannot find the ferry, because they do not have the right equipment. more than 200 were aboard the ship when it capsized. the country's shipping measures says 125 people are presumed dead. >> in turkey a round of police officers have been arrested for spying on the prime minister. police compound in istanbul and 13 provinces were raided. 38 officers were contained for conducting wire taps. 30 others were awaiting trials for spying. part of the police force are behind a corruption scandal aimed at overthrowing the government. in lebanon, a 24 hour ceasefire has collapsed. lebanon has been trying to take back the city from fighters that came across the border from syria. the truce was supposed to give time at giving aid to the city. zeina kho

what was done this while the endless dead men were trained, the officer corps was appointed in the saigon and not very wisely. later when negroponte was the ambassador to iraq he worked rather hard at getting training for the iraqi generals and this was in part a reflection of his experience in the mom. but any event, what then transpired is the most traumatic episode and negroponte's career when the new administration came to power, kissinger proposed a bombing campaign which unlike previous campaigns would seriously attack the hanoi yard and include a blockade. much to kissinger's surprise, negroponte would oppose all of the bombing that had previously taken place on the ground but it had no effect except to alienate the south vietnamese and the support of the strategic bombing. on the theory that for the first time the united states was presenting in as an ex- essentil threats to the north vietnamese government. the war at that point ceased to be a guerrilla war and had become a conventional war of the north vietnamese needed supplies from china and the soviet union and what was being

the national security agency was intercepting cables from the south vietnamese embassy to saigon.ia had a bug in the president of south vietnam's office, and -- >> imagine that. >> what a surprise. >> when i said it a few years ago, there would be a few gasps. now we know. and lyndon johnson had the fbi put a wiretap on the phone in the south vietnamese embassy. november 2nd, three days before the 1968 election, and chennault calls up the ambassador of south vietnam and says, i have a message from my boss. hold on. we're going to win. so johnson knows that the republicans are interfering with this peace talks but he doesn't have the goods on nixon. he calls the senate minority leader everett dirksen. goes into a tirade. sort of implies he has the goods on nixon. the next day he talks to nixon and nixon kind of gives him an evasive assurances that he would never do that. and make a long story short, nixon never really knew how much the federal government had collected with regard to the sabotage on the bombing hall. j. edgar hoover at his meeting following the '68 election said to

after saigon fell, 55,000 lives lost in vain and our ally is basically collapsing.cans can barely get out with the shirt on their back. and the refugees are not being welcomed in america. people are talking about disease, people are saying they are going to take our jobs. it's really ugly. so what does ronald reagan do? he tells an uplifting story, the story of the lobes and fishes according to the gospels of the reader's digest. old ladies and children are being rescued, soldiers being given shirts of a their backs, a child is cured of pneumonia. you would think that the whole purpose in southeast asia in the '60s was to rescue children. >> and you talk about that governoring style from the nixon era. you write that nixon's aides were surprised to learn when they came in to the oval office that he was obsessed with protesters, you write, any protester, even the lone man who stretched out a ten had the foot banner across from the white house and how that led to illegal activities to wiretapping senator. kennedy. all of these things beginning with the paranoia of one