embassy in saigon. that jeep carried the military police quick reaction force that reacted to the attack on the embassy so that vehicle is sitting in our museum as a tangible reminder of army service during the tet offensive. it gives me great pleasure now to introduce our keynote speak they are evening. chuck hagel served as the 24th secretary of defense from february 2013 to february 20 is a and is the only vietnam veteran and first ever enlisted combat veteran to serve as our secretary of defense. secretary hagel also served two terms in the united states senate representing the state of nebraska. secretary hagel has also chaired the atlantic council, the u.s. vietnam war commemoration advisory committee and the vietnam veterans memorial fund corporate council. beginning in late 1967, secretary hagel and his brother tom served together in vietnam in the second battalion 37th infantry regiment. part of the ninth infantry division. the photo on the cover of staying the course depicts secretary hagel's

in other words, i wasn't concerned what's going on down in saigon. i wasn't too concerned with what was going on in my battalion. my battalion commander was 130 miles away by helicopter. so he didn't get up to see us too often. i really -- if you think, 24 years old, i didn't have a lot of adult supervision. but we were very fortunate. we did have a couple people killed and several injured while i was there, but that happens in those kinds of wars. when i left -- actually, i closed out my unit. in october of '70, they said you're going to shut down. by november 20th, we had everything brought in from that connecticut-sized terrain, and had everything turned in, which was difficult, because i had to turn my -- our people had to go through nha trang. we had to turn in all our equipment in qing an, which was quite a different place. that was all done in an khe. we had to do it in specific time lines. very challenging. i was fortunate when i left vietnam. i went to europe for 4 1/2 years. i was at nato. then i came to for the leavenworth. and resigned my

mission to vietnam for economic warfare in saigon from 1966 to 1967. after that, he was president of a private company that invests in equities and real estate. he was a columnist for the charlottesville observer from 1993 to 2000, and in addition to the miller center, where he was part of our presidents are go, he was also involved in the governor's commonwealth counsel for the state of virginia, as well as the society of cincinnati. it is quite an extraordinary career and we have been delighted to be able to produce the stephenson conference on a biennial basis. this has been a signature of our foreign policy research and programming for some time. with all of that having been said, i want to introduce the individual or one of the individuals, the leading individual behind today's conference. inis fittingly the professor the history department as well as being an accomplished professor here at the miller center, has been dean of the

my friends in paris told me that if you arrive in saigon around midnight and go to the third floor of the associated press. you only see a man who has a reputation for never sleeping and yet they still. force fast the famous a past fun hearns the man back then. so i came to him and said hello i want to go to the front tomorrow or i want to go to the fountain. in the set and he looked at me like this and said with his incredible german voice well basically nothing could be easier to come tomorrow at five am and i'll send you to the front. of. i don't do it didn't matter my whole life was decided at that moment. but these days i stood under the stairs and looked up at him and said but sir what kind of photos should i bring you so i can get the job as well. as you know he was still smiling at me and he said. they said let's save you that's easy the year of the rat insta day and the year of the ox beginnings you can't do that for me and you have the job. christine spend returned with this picture it appeared in the new york times and it was her breakthrough. spengler sleeps among photos o

my face in paris told me that if you arrive in saigon around midnight and go to the third floor of the associated press. you'll meet a man who has a reputation for never sleeping and yet i think that still lives shattered they don't. always fuss the famous a past fun i heard some man back then. he had the so i came to him and said hello sir i want to go to the front tomorrow or i want to go through the front . in the set and he looked at me like this and said with his incredible german voice well baby nothing could be easier nothing more coming tomorrow at five am and also new to the front that there isn't done well for. don't do it don't matter my whole life was decided at that moment. by the stage i stood under the stairs and looked up at him and said but sir what kind of photos should i bring you so i can get the job or job as you do it while he was still smiling at me and he said. they should save you that's easy the year of the rat instead and the year of the ox begins the catch is that for me and you have the job. christine spend returned with this picture it appeared in the new

-- of their tv's as the last or veggies are removed from saigon and they take over the south.n, gerald ford himself pitted aiken's the fellow by the name of jimmy carter. fellow by the name of jimmy carter another southerner. not just a southerner, but a southerner from george. -- from georgia. jimmy carter, this is the time in thee cover, had been united states navy. he was from plains, georgia, grew up on a farm. in the navy, he had been an engineer, done submarine duty, and when he gets back he decides that he has a responsibility to run for office. his early campaigns are notable. first, he runs for state office the 1960's then in he decides to make a run for the governorship of georgia and he is essentially defeated in the democratic primary by lester maddox. lester maddox runs a fairly cartercampaign, leaving on the outside as a moderate. ago, in 1970 when carter comes back running against carl sanders, it is carter who in the campaign takes the more extreme position. in fact, carter will drop off voters who had voted for wallace, nixon, and others. it looks as if he wil

it was the moment when general who was the chief of police of the saigon police department pulled out 38 revolver and held it up to the temple and shot him, bang. eddie adams of the a.p. took the picture. it was the next day all over the world and it was injected right into the center of the american brand and it made americans feel morally unclean. can it be that we who are the most idealistic people in the world can't be that we're actually evil? that was what it did. >> i'll be so glad to go home. i don't know. this is the worst area we've been in since i've been in vietnam. >> do you think it's worth it? >> i don't know. they say we're fighting for something. >>> 1,000 striking sanitation workers marched on memis city hall this afternoon and demand their grievances be heard. >> two sanitation workers were crushed in the back of a garbage truck. memphis policy did not allow them to seek shelter in a rainstorm because the white citizens in memphis did not want to see sanitation workers in their yards and that sort of thing. the rain was so terrible they got into the back of the barr

. >> anna, a fundraiser of nixon campaign is telling saigon stay away from peace talks and you'll getetter deal if nixon is elected. >> as my candidate joins me in this, neither he or i will say anything that destroys the chance to have peace. we want peace. >> i think it's -- for big people to be messing with the south vote that mezze ambassador. anybody keep measures to all the crowd they're just tied up for a few days. >> lbj feels confident to move forward. the mission that north vietnam has been met. so peace talks, they will happen. >> well in saigon november 1st, the president stands up and drops his major bombshell. >> translator: south vietnam cannot participate in the negotiations. >> i have no more things to tell you. >> embarrassment is commonly today among americans here in vietnam particularly those of us who has acquaintances. we find ourselves apologizing. >> once we heard the means were not aboard, i said let this play out, when the south vietnam thing breaks it's going to look like johnson didn't have all his ducts in a row and it's as applicable as it can be. >> i t

it was the moment when general who was the chief of police of the saigon police department pulled out up to the temple and shot him, bang. eddie adams of the a.p. took the picture. it was the next day all over the world and it was injected right into the center of the american brand and it made americans feel morally unclean. can it be that we who are the most idealistic people in the world can't be that we're actually evil? that was what it did. >> i'll be so glad to go home. i don't know. this is the worst area we've been in since i've been in vietnam. >> do you think it's worth it? >> i don't know. they say we're fighting for something. i don't know. as long as there is fear and curiosity. washing machine dying) appliance got you down? head to the sears memorial day event. up to 40 percent off appliances. 52% off this kenmore refrigerator. 50 percent off kenmore elite laundry pairs. find your new appliance at the sears memorial day event. wi'm really grateful that usaaq. was able to take care of my family while i was overseas serving. it was my very first car accident. we were hit

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immediately confronting him was vietnam, the communist tet offensive had not achieved its objective, the saigonnment was still in power and the cities though besieged had not fallen into viet cong hands, nevertheless there was widespread destruction throughout vietnam and the pacification program had received a setback. faced with the specific duty of strengthening the allied position in vietnam secretary clifford would also carry the traditional concern of defense secretaries, maintaining america's military posture globally. helping secretary delivered and his successors accomplish this aim would be a piece of new defense hardware that the president unveiled the next day. as part of a weekend inspection trip and brief vacation, the president traveled to the marietta, georgia, plant of lockheed aircraft company for the roll out of the c-5-a galaxy, biggest air ship ever built, with engines twice as powerful as any in existence, the c-5-a can do three times the work of the largest cargo plane the u.s. now operates. >> but more important of all are for the first time our fighting men will be able

communistsngs expected to happen did not happen be on that surprise of seeing people in saigon and capturing these provincial capitals, but they had to yield them all eventually. , the americans when they assess the impact of the offenses on their effort in the theyryside, they find were back to where they were two years ago, their attempts to build support in the countryside had been undermined because they could not provide for the security of those people. that is where you see a sense of, well, this is also a military defeat for the united they.have lost time they don't have any more. united states. they have lost time they don't have any more. the american public had turned against the war by autumn 1967. that is why lbj brought we must morlan back. william west moreland back. it was to address this, the that hadpublic opinion lost confidence in lbj and wanted the war to be over and the united states to get out. what you see is opinion goes back to that, that the public campaign listed the numbers and tet brought them back to say october or november, so it did not alter american opinion

robert mcnamara, clifford inherited the responsibilities, immediately confronting him was vietnam, the saigon government was still in power and the cities have not fallen into is he at into their hands. faced with a specific duty of strengthening the allied position in vietnam, secretary clifford would also carry the traditional concern of carrying the. there would be a new piece of defense hardware the president unveiled the next day. as part of a weekend inspection trip the president traveled to the lockheed company to look at the roll out of the biggest carr go plane the u.s. now operates. >> but more important of all, for the first time, our fighting men will be able to travel with their equipment to any spot on the globe where we might be forced to stand and they will travel rapidly and efficiently. so it's much more than a roll out of a great aircraft you're seeing here today. we are observing a long leap forward in the effective military might of america. . >> that same weekend the president flew to texas where he viewed the preparation for the concrest of outer space. he made a furthe

we were traveling we have a group of indonesian artists we ran around saigon looking for a model but we couldn't find any you know but in the hand. we found a couple of models in the in the brothel actually. who were willing to pose for us . i don't normally do female nudes. i don't have much of a choice. when you're drawing in the nude you know naturally the officers and comes into it you know. and here i think i tried to capture. that sense rather too but very quickly. although it's a fairly conservative country and i would have. one i have is what you would call the moral police you know if you're sure everyone behaves. you know i mean i've been drawing and painting newts for years and. have never bothered me. the female new use it's not anything new isn't it obvious it's been growing news the centuries it's just that here in this country people get a bit a bit sensitive. i would prefer drawing a female rather than me i said to see. what my eyes to see a nude man life in front of you was always. my children. they go to school. i know what to teach in school. but you need to look a

we were traveling with a group of indignation artists we ran around saigon looking for a model but we couldn't find any you know but in the hand. we found a couple of models and in a brothel actually. who are willing to pose for us. i don't normally do female nudes. i don't have much of a choice. when you're drawing in the nude you know naturally the offices and comes into it you know. and here i think i tried to capture. that sense reality but very quickly. english poets of fairly conservative country and we have. this is what you call the moral police you know ensure everyone behaves. you know i mean i've been drawing and painting nudes for years and. they've never bothered me. the female new use there's not anything new within it. is has been growing new centuries but it's just that here in this country people get a bit a bit sensitive. i would prefer drawing a female rather than male myself to see. that that's. not nice to see a new man live in for the view was. my children. they go to school. i know what school you know but they need to look at you know when to come home and leav

challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to d

guest: that photograph was taken in the chinese section of saigon. this was at the height of the here the viet, w cong had come into saigon, and they had taken over the u.s. embassy. they tried to. they got right to the edge. it was pretty rough. general on the left just had d in veryis guys kille heavy streetfighting around that area. they arrested this vc suspect. film of an nvc -- nbc this happening. this photograph is one of the most powerful pictures ever taken, obviously. they brought back i over, and -- general over, and luan shot him right there. he was a reviled character after that. he lived right across the way in arlington after the war. eddie was always torn by this photo. he said two lives were ruined that day, certainly the vc who was killed and the general who was subject to repulsion every day after that. war isthe cruelty of the what comes up in that photograph. there is a cold dispensing of life. is no feeling. this guy is on the opposite side. move on. there are three photographs taken by ap photographers. iwo jima photograph is t

where the vietcong had come into saigon and then taken over the embassy, the u.s. embassy, they tried to. they got right to the edge. and the general on the left, he had just had some of his guys killed in very heavy streetfighting around that area , and they arrested the suspect and there was an nbc film and eddie was out with an nbc crew in this photograph is one of the most powerful pictures ever taken obviously, and they brought that guy over in the general pulled out his gun and he shot him right then and there and, of course, he was reviled character after that. he lived across the way and eddie was always torn by this photograph because he said two lives were ruined that day. the general was subject to repulsion every day after that. >> but the cruelty of the war is what is summed up in the autograph. there is a cold dispensing of life and there is no feeling attached to this. this guy was on the opposite side, just kill him. and moveon. >> there pictures that stand out in my mind. the photograph of iwo jima shows the marines raising the flag the red white a

embassy saigon and what is now the u.s. consulate, ho chi minh city. this mpiece -- this piece was retrieved in 2003 as they were renovating the sidewalk and surrounding area. that particular sidewalk has a pretty interesting history for the u.s. embassy. alison: i know. i think that is why our collection is so fascinating, because at first glance it is just a piece of concrete. what does it mean? in 1968, in the thick of the conflict with vietnam, the north vietnamese lost in offensive on the vietnamese holiday of the new year. entirely unexpected. traditionally, this had been a day of truce. they blew a hole in the compound, the embassy. there was a wall surrounding it, and they planted a bomb in it and they blew a hole in it, and in this way, the vietnamese forces were actually able to enter the courtyard. this put american diplomats in extreme danger, but they were held in the courtyard and never actually made it inside the embassy. they were finally driven out by some helicopter reinforcements coming in, but the american diplomats inside were very

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these are large street signs that talk about how our president is a friend to saigon.t is happening. such a political journey to get here. president bill clinton signed the jerusalem embassy act but it never happened. they were supposed to do it in a demanding and by now it's happening with president trump and a lot of excitement today. live all day long as the ceremony kicks off in a couple hours. cheryl: thank you for that. finally now occurring for more on the u.s. embassy in jerusalem. former congresswoman and hayworth and policy analysts jonathan watts held. the opening of the embassy this week for fuzzy campaign promise for the president, but hayden's mideast tensions. does this mean the peace process is dead air? >> not at all. i've visited jerusalem with the congressional delegation in 2011 and i know that we spoke with the prime minister at that time. the support for the nation of israel in this country by this administration is particularly strong. in 1995 we decided to go to jerusalem and president trump is doing that much to his credit. this opens an opport

if they'd go back to a rare area, maybe saigon. never been in saigon. whether it was anything else. they would get ahold of free marijuana. they would start off on that. what better way the decrease the efficiency of a military unit that hawas stoned half the time. that's what happened. now if you're in the rear areas, i don't know about that. i was never in the damn rear area. i was never in an area where you have a wire when you went out there. you dug in at night and then you were worried you u had listening posts and ambushes and the worst thing that you could have is having a marine that was stoned or asleep because that meant that everyone in that platoon or company was in dapger of being killed. okay. come home. 68 million years ago. i think the marine corps and army had, we had a tremendous amount of peeople on drugs. the vietnam veterans still have the problems with drugs. started with marijuana and now it went to something big. you know we can go on and on and on. the forgotten generation. and the one thing that saved the marine corps and i say the army, was two things. th

after the fall of saigon in 1 he and his family fled to thenid stes he is the author of three books includg "the sympathizer," which won the pulitzer pri. he is also the editor of a new collection titled "the displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives." he teaches at the university of southern california. we are also joined by the chilean-american writer ariel dorfman, who has been described as one of the greatest latin american novelist. 45 years ago, he fled chil after a u.s.-backed coup displaced president salvador allende. dorfman had served as allende's cultural adviser from 1970 to 1973. allende died in the palace as the pinochet forces rose to power on that other september 11, 19 living in exile, he became one of gen. augusto pinochet's most vocal critics as well as a celebrated playwright and novelist. dorfman, who teaches at duke university, has just published a ," and adarwin's ghost new collection of essays, "homeland security eight my speech." he also contributed an essay to "the displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives." we will commute both to democracy now! it is a great

robert mcnamara, clifford inherited the responsibilities, immediately confronting him was vietnam, the saigon government was still in power and the cities have not fallen into is he at into their hands. faced with a specific duty of strengthening the allied position in vietnam, secretary clifford would also carry the traditional concern of carrying the. there would be a new piece of defense hardware the president unveiled the next day. as part of a weekend inspection trip the president traveled to the lockheed company to look at the roll out of the biggest carr go plane the u.s. now operates. >> but more important of all, for the first time, our fighting men will be able to travel with their equipment to any spot on the globe where we might be forced to stand and they will travel rapidly and efficiently. so it's much more than a roll out of a great aircraft you're seeing here today. we are observing a long leap forward in the effective military might of america. . >> that same weekend the president flew to texas where he viewed the preparation for the concrest of outer space. he made a furthe

it's a part of obligation saigon sunset. as a result, the officers apprehended 90s as the did drug suppliers and traffickers, 167 grams of cocaine for 760 grams of airlines, 450 grams of sentinel to preventabl -- fe. i want to thank you for what you've done and i understand every law enforcement officer that was any part of that area was a part of that. i just want to know is this typical that the fbi is doing around the country in terms of according to bu to bypass local resources to be able to catch these guys? thibecause literally, they are killing our people. >> this is a huge priority. one of the things i tried to do is not spend all my time inside the beltway. i've been trying to get out and i'm determined to get to all of the offices by the end of this year. i'm making good headway and every office i go to his incredible work being done by the men and women of the fbi on some of the same issues that you are talking about, and it never fails to give me an extra spring in my step. we couldn't do it without our partners.