than merely send advisors to, preclude a collapse of this pro-american anti-communist regime in in saigon? and so so ultimately in response to the escalation in response to to this this this existence of a of a of a state of war in in southern vietnam, lyndon johnson decide, deploy, combat troops begins with 3000 marines and it keeps going up from there. he deploys these combat troops to two southern vietnam and at the same time he initiates a sustained and bombing campaign against against the north. the idea being that the north to be punished for all the troubles in the south as far as johnson and his advisers are concerned whatever difficulties the americans are facing in the south are all the result of this collusion by by by hanoi, of this involvement hanoi. and as we established on on tuesday as it turns out. right, the insurgency in southern vietnam was actually begun by southerners against the wishes of of hanoi. so so so johnson's approach is to to fight the insurgents. the south with american military personnel and then to bomb the north for its support of of this state of war i

why were they tied down in saigon? because if you were a single reporter for a newspaper or a radio or some some anyway, your editor who had spent a lot of money get you there, wanted you to file a lot of copy and you couldn't wander around vietnam and and file two stories a week or. you you had to sort of stay where you could get a story every day or every other day and where was that was going to the 5:00 follies, the 5:00 follies, the and the american and the vietnamese handed out sheets of what happened. what they said happened during the war in the 24 hours, what units were doing and so on and you could put that together and could pleasure editor back home and file five or 600 words for for him to do so there was there weren't a lot of reporters, though there were hundreds of reporters accredited there weren't all that out in the field looking for the new york times had four reporters when i was there. so we had the luxury of being able to let people go out, spend time doing stories. and we one of the interesting

songs like bruce springsteen's born in the usa, billy joel's goodnight saigon, charlie daniels in saigon. so there's a there's a moment, and i think it overlaps with film that's happening of really of looking at the war and you're seeing you're seeing the second version of that story emerge. we don't hear too many women's voices on the rock side, certainly on the source, frieda payne, who many people might know from a really hit called band of gold, but she a hit with a song called bring the boys home. in 7172, which it's a big hit. again, are selling records they're they're on the radio. and as the war came to an end in this country, at least active hot part of the war. by 1973 to 75, that music, of course, died. i know that by like 1974, the top hit from that year was billie don't be a hero by o'donnell. so my agents, which is the definition of insipid but it was a that's about the only anti-war movie song there was. and by that time so i guess people just lost interest the subject was over and the field moved on. well you know protest, music as such is not as popular as we get into th

songs like bruce springsteen's born in the usa, billy joel's goodnight saigon, charlie daniels in saigon. so there's a there's a moment, and i think it overlaps with film that's happening of really of looking at the war and you're seeing you're seeing the second version of that story emerge. we don't hear too many women's voices on the rock side, certainly on the source, frieda payne, who many people might know from a really hit called band of gold, but she a hit with a song called bring the boys home. in 7172, which it's a big hit. again, are selling records they're they're on the radio. and as the war came to an end in this country, at least active hot part of the war. by 1973 to 75, that music, of course, died. i know that by like 1974, the top hit from that year was billie don't be a hero by o'donnell. so my agents, which is the definition of insipid but it was a that's about the only anti-war movie song there was. and by that time so i guess people just lost interest the subject was over and the field moved on. well you know protest, music as such is not as popular as we get into th

to this day, many of little saigon's sons are first generation vietnamese who fled communism to find freedom in this country. they brought with them a rich heritage, beautiful culture, and a proud history. they are small business owners, public servants, community leaders, educators, health care professionals, lawyers, journalist, parents, and everything in between. the vietnamese community in orange county is a shining example of a fundamental american truth, that no matter who you are or where you come from if you work hard and stay true to the principles of liberty and justice for all, you can achieve success for yourself and your family. southern california and america are stronger because of their contributions. i am proud to represent the vietnamese american living in california's 45th district, and i'm committed to ensuring that each of them can build and enjoy their own american dream. madam speaker, i rise today in celebration of filipino independence day. the history of filipino independence is a story of a people who remained committed to democratic values of self-determin

those two chocolates are only part of our little saigon box, which is our most popular box.o, this is available year round, and it's basically a four-course meal in the form of chocolate-- a vietnamese meal. so, the first course is a jasmine tea truffle and a vietnamese coffee truffle. and the second course is savory, so it's a pho spices chocolate. so, we take all the spices in pho, and it's paired with a sriracha truffle. and then the third course is dessert, and for us, we always have fruit, actually, so guava, lychee, passionfruit, and of course, durian. and then, the final course is cognac, because when we have family gatherings, of course, there's karaoke, and sometimes it can help people sing better, or make them think that they sing better. our parents had a nail salon, so every day after school we'd go there to help out, and this meant going across the street to the santa rosa plaza on our breaks and eating free chocolate samples every day. so, after having eaten hundreds of chocolates, i finally wanted to learn how to make the chocolates. so, i found a recipe in go

he said, you know, the faces that i saw in danang and saigon were the same that i saw quadrupling saipan and okinawa. young americans called upon to do things that the rest of their fellows citizens could never imagine and things that they did without complete. and i remember my mother yelling the kitchen, god bless bob. hope. in in those times as america forgot that her freedom was not guaranteed. pundits, professors and protesters, but by the souls and efforts of those 41 million americans who carried liberty on their shoulders. not only for this, but for the rest of the world. nixon never forgot. he never forgot those americans who sacrificed all who gave all in south vietnam, cambodia, laos. he signed legislation honoring veterans than any president in our history. he openly you the american warrior for what you did there honorably undertaken and honorably and and when he signed the largest numbers veterans the largest number of veterans bills one day any american. he said by you our veterans the gratitude and the that you deserve. we are not only doing the right thing, we are doing

of our asian neighborhoods in san francisco the old in the country here in our city and the little saigon and the currently vicinity and chinese in the richmond and sunset and portal we are here. and we know over the years have gone through challenging times whether that is the side and chinese he rra under the 1800s or rethis after the 1906 kathy we always come back one of the last things i do in the legislative was to work with folks here to bring one million dollars back to the community. and the reason at that time we wanted to do if we had our communities were struggling after the pandemic. and after the impacts of and italian hate but a year and a half later this was more importantly because we are evolving did good news things are moving toward receipt to the retail businesses are going our night life is coming back we have more to do and thank you, mayor, and thank the office of economic development for working with the community on programs and grants to revise and bring back the small businesses and residents and visitors together building community and building the town thank y

was there between these two things were four things, you know, the sort of general ease of life in saigon and and these horrors outside and so that that's when i started to worry about how to how to write about the whole thing. and it and i learned more about the context about the war and about the vietnamese who still was there. and so when i started writing this book, i still didn't quite know how i was going to be able to deal with. it's really paradox in some ways that wandered into this circumstance and found to be as complicated as you did, but you set out to write an extra ordinarily ambitious book and as a very young journalist on the ground, you recognize at the time you were beginning work the level of ambition that would be required to pull it off. i guess not. i wouldn't. well, it worked out, which is good. well, i thank john for for boosting it. very kind of him. well, thank you. so, fred, you have as a historian who has studied the vietnam a great deal from the distance of the aftermath of the war, can you tell you something about your own interest, this work, what drew you

joe: in san francisco's gritty tenderloin is a stretch of larkin street known as little saigon.will lead you to the kitchen of hello sandwich & noodle where hang noyen* and her family stoke the flames of traditional dishes from her native vietnam. pho, banh mi, sandwiches, and spring rolls are jusust some of the tastes of her country, but when new year's rolls around, you're likely to find noyen in her kitchen, making a version of a dish called jung, a type of sticky rice stuffed in leaves. hang noyen: i learn in my country. joe: n noyen's vietntnamese veversion of this specialty y s banana leaf. hang: yeah, i have thick rice, mung bean. we usese pork belly,y, yeah. lily lo: stick to the rice. joe: looking on us lily lo, a chinatown activist interested in jung. lily: that's all you have? hang: yeah, now i fold. joe: this is more than just a meal. there's an art to folding and tying the leaves so water dodoesn't get inin when you bob. lily: how long you been doing it? hangng: long time. one time, two time. lily: how long you cook it? hang: cook for 8 hours. lily: eight hours! joe

the government, our puppet government, was falling like dominoes, you might say, in saigon every other that we were going to win. but i was there as a cold warrior thinking that now that we have in �*65, while i was in the pentagon... mm. ..committed troops and, previous to that, bombing, we're in it. so i was trying to make something of it, and i certainly wanted to beat communists for once. i didn't think we'd win, but perhaps we could get something out of this that would be less than humiliation. but having seen what was happening in vietnam, having decided the war — as you just said to me — was a loser, i'm just interested to know why you sat on the pentagon papers for quite a while before ultimately leaking them to the newspapers in 1971. some people would say if you'd acted sooner, they might have had more impact on the war. 0h, absolutely. remember that i tried to put them out to the senate in the fall of �*69, and it was promised by senator fulbright, chairman of the foreign relations committee, that he would hold hearings. but he didn't. he didn't do it. in the end he didn't w

khe sanh fighting off them viet cong they're still there, he's all gone he had a woman he loved in saigon arms now ♪ ♪ down in the shadow of the penitentiary out by the gas fires of the refinery i'm 10 years burning down the road nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go ♪ ♪ born in the u.s.a. i was born in the u.s.a. now born in the u.s.a. i'm a long gone daddy in the u.s.a. now born in the u.s.a. born in the u.s.a. born in the u.s.a. i'm a cool rocking daddy in the u.s.a. now ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ driving down the street today i saw a sign for lemonade they were the cutest kids i'd ever seen in this front yard as they handed me my glass smiling and thinking to myself man, what a picture-perfect postcard this would make of america it's a high school prom it's a spreeng steen song -- springsteen song it's a ride in chevrolet kids selling lemonade it's in farms it's open arms one nation under god it's america ♪ ♪ later on when i got home i flipped the tv on i saw a little town that some big twister tore apart people came from miles around just to help their neighbors out and i was thinking to myself i

barbara was only 21-years-old when she was over in saigon during thena vietnam war. truck carrying explosives from the vietcong exploded in front of her at the u.s. embassy and killed her. she is the youngest person on the memorial wall and first female officer to die in the line of duty. president johnson sent her family a telegram a condolence letter and we now have that on display with a metal that was given to her family. they donated it to us just this past year thanks to her brother we were able to get these artifacts and have them on display at headquarters so something we are honored to have and we are glad we can show the sacrifice and heroism. >> so was the story known for a long time? was the classified story? are the guests classified over years? >> on the memorial wall you will notice that there are many names that are not actually in the book of honor and every year the director of the cia looks at the names and decides if any of them can be released. a few years ago we had two of the officers who were killed in the attacks in benghazi. their names were

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

barbara was only 21 years old when she was over in saigon during, the vietnam war, a truck carrying explosives from the vietcong exploded in front of her at the us embassy and killed her. she is the youngest on our memorial wall and the first female officer die in the line of duty. president johnson sent her family a telegram, a condolence letter, and we now have that on display, along with a posthumous medal that was given to her family. they donated to us just this past year, thanks to her brother. we were able to get these artifacts and have them on display here at headquarters. so it's something we're very honored to have. we're glad we can show the sacrifice and the heroism of barbara robbins. so it's the story of barbara robbins, been known for a long time, was at a classified story or deaths of cia officers declassified over years on our memorial wall you'll notice that there are many names that are not actually in the book of honor and every year the director of cia looks at those names and decides if any of them can be released a few years ago we had two of our officers who were kille

the time frank church is in the senate and he visits vietnam in 1962, it's pretty clear that the saigon government is the us military has supporting and abetting them. britain and france refused to help because there supposed to be a treaty. the geneva accords, that would have united vietnam through an election. ho chi minh probably would have won was incredibly popular. he was a communist communists were killing rival groups. so there was already a civil war brewing. think there was going to be blood? the united just made it worse. and that's so. frank church visits vietnam in 1962 and he notices things are not going well. when church arrived. in 1962, president kennedy, who he was, he very close to kennedy, had wanted him and some other senators to tour vietnam and he went and he was just shocked by the corruption and the incompetence of the south vietnamese regime. and reminded him completely of the chinese nationalist army and the chinese nationalists regime of chiang kai shek. and he went back to washington and began to slowly to turn against the war. he was, since he was so close

the time frank church is in the senate and he visits vietnam in 1962, it's pretty clear that the saigon government is the us military has supporting and abetting them. britain and france refused to help because there supposed to be a treaty. the geneva accords, that would have united vietnam through an election. ho chi minh probably would have won was incredibly popular. he was a communist communists were killing rival groups. so there was already a civil war brewing. think there was going to be blood? the united just made it worse. and that's so. frank church visits vietnam in 1962 and he notices things are not going well. when church arrived. in 1962, president kennedy, who he was, he very close to kennedy, had wanted him and some other senators to tour vietnam and he went and he was just shocked by the corruption and the incompetence of the south vietnamese regime. and reminded him completely of the chinese nationalist army and the chinese nationalists regime of chiang kai shek. and he went back to washington and began to slowly to turn against the war. he was, since he was so close

the time frank church is in the senate and he visits vietnam in 1962, it's pretty clear that the saigon government is the us military has supporting and abetting them. britain and france refused to help because there supposed to be a treaty. the geneva accords, that would have united vietnam through an election. ho chi minh probably would have won was incredibly popular. he was a communist communists were killing rival groups. so there was already a civil war brewing. think there was going to be blood? the united just made it worse. and that's so. frank church visits vietnam in 1962 and he notices things are not going well. when church arrived. in 1962, president kennedy, who he was, he very close to kennedy, had wanted him and some other senators to tour vietnam and he went and he was just shocked by the corruption and the incompetence of the south vietnamese regime. and reminded him completely of the chinese nationalist army and the chinese nationalists regime of chiang kai shek. and he went back to washington and began to slowly to turn against the war. he was, since he was so close