at that time vietnam was divided into north and south the us supported the government of south vietnam and military intervention intensified after nine hundred sixty five. but the us made strong resistance from guerrilla forces who used dense jungle as their base of operations. defoliants brain was begun in an effort to deny cover to the guerrillas by eliminating the jungle folly which. as the war escalated the spring of deval eons increased dramatically and much of the land in south vietnam was contaminated and left barren. the defoliant known as agent orange was made from the same chemical substances as herbicides used in the us but it was twenty five times more potent. agent orange also contained dioxin the most toxic chemical ever produced. dioxin remains in the environment for many decades and causes a variety of health problems. several million vietnamese and american soldiers who fought in vietnam were affected by agent orange. their children and grandchildren continue to suffer the affects. dioxin remains in the soil of vietnam today and the land has yet to recover. by my cabin

the dictator who ran south vietnam to say he would not be part of the deal to publicly say that and so the vietnam war dragged on for another over twenty thousand more deaths. american billion dollar via the means to easily and nixon was willing to do that just to win the election i just to his credit or whatever a week or so after the election he's he had his people get in touch with the head of south vietnam and say ok now you can do the deal like he could turn that on and off like a faucet in the south vietnamese had was like no you know so i mean what are the links he would go to to win an election are just stunning but so much of what we see today whenever you see someone making outrageous claims about their opponent you know they know that will get the media attention it will distract from their own in america. right and they keep saying if people want it well it's been proven he is well it works you know advertising works the more people hear a message in advertising the more it works and i'm always shocked when i see the obama america is a muslim and sure it's a lot of repub

north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates unite, and they do not like that. when i first come to prison, it will be a big thing if i went and sat with the blacks. it would be a big think if they caucasian sat with the asians. we only did that one time, where everybody got together, and we got what we wanted. when you unite, you can conquer. [applause] >> next question is for the commander. how can they community-based organization contact the task force for speaking engagements? >> if you call and ask to speak to jim miller. >> is there any effort to formalize the relationship with a community-based organization? >> right now, we do not have that effort in place. it is a good idea, it is something that we have talked about. it is important for us to understand what the cbos are doing. it is important for them to have specific training for their individuals. they should also have some guidelines and some criteria to evaluate their

north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates unite, and they do not like that. when i first come to prison, it will be a big thing if i went and sat with the blacks. it would be a big think if they caucasian sat with the asians. we only did that one time, where everybody got together, and we got what we wanted. when you unite, you can conquer. [applause] >> next question is for the commander. how can they community-based organization contact the task force for speaking engagements? >> if you call

agent orange" and other herbicides during the war to destroy enemy cover in the jungles of former south vietnam. "agent orange" contained dioxin.. which has been linked go cancer, birth defects and other disabilities. now, the u.s. is working to remove dioxin from a contaminated site at the former u.s. air base in danang. the project is expected to be completed in four years. the illinois national guard is the target of an email scam, intended for spouses of deployed service members. the fradulent email is sent directly to military spouses from someone claiming to be from the illinois national guard. it refers to a deployed service member by name, and asks their spouse to pay luggage fees in order for their loved one to be granted a temporary leave. anyone who feels they have been affected by this scam is asked to contact the fbi cyber crime website at fbi.gov. the top two leaders at susan g. common for the cure are leaving their positions ... nancy brinker, the breast cancer charity founder and ceo is moving to a new position to focus on fund-raising for common president elizabeth thompson is

he set himself on fire in the streets of saigon to protest the south vietnam government supported by united states. president kennedy reportedly said that he was shocked by the image and that it forced the white house in a reevaluation of the vietnam policy. malcolm brown the only foreign journalist there. he had parkinson's disease and died yesterday at the age of 81. >>> new rules finalize today by the obama administration nearly double the average fuel economy for cars by the year 2025. new standard will require new cars and trucks to average 54 and a half miles perfect gallon in 13 years. current mileage rule call for nearly 30 miles per hour. standard also include incentive for the production of electric and hybrid vehicle and model that run on natural gas. regulation which are in the work for several years now add those thousands for the cost of new car but in the long run drivers spend less on gasoline. >> in lake tahoe. california geological survey and team of scientist just finished testing some new technogy to the assess the risk of earthquake and land slides. they took a b

when i recently read about johnson talking to his -- i think ambassador of south vietnam henry, and saying i'm not going to do down in history as the first american president to lose a war. i mumble under my breath, that ship sailed. because james madison already lost a war, at least, sort of? which prompted me to think about winners and losers and ask a question. who won the ar of 1812 anyway? although it may seem one candidate is -- [inaudible] let me explain. in a dome-headed misreading what the neighbors were thinking, many americans before the war talked themselves in to think that the canadian would welcome an invading american force. it wasn't only jefferson the speaker assured madison that a malicioussha of kentucky are a loan exe i want to place canada at the feet. quite a lot incorrect as it happened. when it came to the american innovation they did not welcome them as liberators. and a three-pronged innovation of canada proved failure. in august of 1812, united states surrendered to a smaller force. it was at the -- [inaudible] in october same year, american forces was captured

when we returned, he ran the air force base, responsible for the thunder birds, and brought the south vietnamfighter pilot in prison with our men that vietnam used as a servant to embarrass him by having him do all the dirty work around the prison. the men called max, used that opportunity to smuggle food and medicine to men who were dying again and again and again. the highest priority of his agenda was to bring max over and honor him in the united states. he was brought over, honored in u.s. at 14 bases, and went back home. when saigon fell in 1975, robbie and curl rutledge, and captain norris were the first to go in to save him. they didn't forget max. can you imagine after five years in the hell going back in the box and all of that, to go back in to pick up a vietnam soldier? they did that. he did the right thing. it takes a person with a lot of integrity to do that, and he has a lot of integrity. they were in the white house, heard about this, and sent george peatree, one of the raiders, over in a car, picked up max, 19 family members, to go to the airport, flew him back in the states,

pre nearly 20 million gallons of agent orange and a quarter of the former south vietnam and border areas of cambodia and laos between 1962 and 1971. agent orange has been to cancer, diabetes, and birth defects among millions of vietnamese as well as american veterans. earlier today, the u.s. ambassador to vietnam kicked off a project to clean up the chemical at a major airport. >> this process uses high to the jurors to break down the contaminated soil and make it safe by vietnamese and u.s. standards of many men, women, and children who live and work in this area. the dioxin in the ground here is a legacy of the painful past we share, but the project we undertake today hand in hand with the vietnamese is, the secretary clinton said, a sign of the hopeful future we are building together. >> dow chemical is the american company that made agent orange. japan is marking the 67th anniversary today of the u.s. atomic bombing of the city of nagasaki. some 70,000 people were killed instantly and another 10,000 died in the aftermath of the august 9, 1945 attack, which flattened the city three da

going to be fighting for their interests and it can be china versus japan versus south korea versus philippines versus vietnam we don't need to relive the twentieth century in east asia george you want to jump in on that well if i could if i could this you know if i could disagree with that i really don't think that you can have a stable the world though with one power leading it's never been the case in the process and when the united nations was set up after world war two the idea was to have a consensus of the great powers hence the permanent members of the security council the moment the united states decides well we're going to work with the league of nations how did that work with the legal nations george. whether the league of nations didn't work because the leading powers in england and france were simply not strong enough to. impose their world order you have a germany and the soviet union were pretty much out of the league of nations and england and france by themselves and the united states was also out of it england france were really too weak to impose a world order but. if you don't have a leade

being the veteran small business champion of the year in 2006 he served in the central highland of south vietnam in 1969 and 1970 as a member of the u.s. army fourth infantry division and as a founding member of the vietnam veterans of mexico we are truly honored to have assistant secretary garcia with us today. the director of public health policy for health and human services. she is as primary oversight responsibility for coordinated and timely implementation of the public health prevention and health care work force policy provisions of the affordable care act, something you heard talked about a little bit here for the center of american progress. she has had the honor of working for some of the true great in the legislative business most notably senator durbin, who was here recently with a group of the dreamer's talking about the implementation of the dream that process. she has also worked for then a congressman hilda solis and barack obama during his time on the hill. she also has acc credentials which is important to a guy from charlottesville. she went to the university of north carolin

and that intention has already been felt south korea the philippines and vietnam have already held nato military exercises with several more countries in the region expected to have similar war games soon during a recent extensive tour of the asian pacific u.s. secretary of defense leon panetta said washington will relocate at least sixty percent of its naval fleet to the region by the end of the decade reason for such moves has been china's territorial disputes with the philippines in the south china sea but experts say that's only an excuse the us is now promising some kind of support for the armed forces modernization creating a so-called minimum credit credible defense posture but the end the end result would be more in favor of the us than in the philippines seeing that the us or so many economic and business interests in china it wants to keep china obedient to whatever dictates that you have in store for china so all the treaty allies from japan south korea australia the philippines you're being mobilized right now to encircle china and keep it subservient to us dictating interes