they argue that the bureau is not looking at the vietnam war simply within the boundaries of south vietnam and thus we need to look at the war more comprehensively and thus be able to get to the enemy sanctuaries in cambodia and laos to get to the ho chi minh trail and the main artery that hanoi is using to supply the south. so i think westmoreland is concerned about throughout his tenure in south vietnam and clearly, this relates to a problem of retreating enemy forces. so as i mentioned in my remarks we need to make sure that we realize that there are portions of south vietnam in which true attrition of the enemy, the enemy's forces made sense in the mosaic of south vietnam where different provinces and different districts looked different from one another. where the war is unfolding at different rates and in different way s. attrition in different areas, thus in the central highland which is is relatively less populated than other areas of south vietnam and where north vietnamese regular army units and regiments as early as late 1964 and 1965 are entering into south vietnam westmoreland

from a perspective of grant strategy that the vietnam in 19 -- the south vietnam in 1965, which seemso be so essential to american national security is not the south vietnam that is so important to national security in 1970. that south vietnam in 1970 does not matter as much to president nixon and to henry kissinger as it does to lyndon b. johnson in 1965. >> i also -- i also thought you ought to bring in the whole mccarthy anticommunist political situation in the united states. >> right. clearly i think that johnson in 1965 is, you know, mccarthyism certainly died out a bit by the time you get to the early 1960s. but i think certainly communism and the fear of the domino effect which is really kind of, is articulated by eisenhower in the mccarthy era, if you will. i think is still on johnson's mind. he doesn't want to lose south vietnam like truman lost china. like china was truman's to lose. but clearly, i think, johnson is thinking along those terms. and when he's devising his grand strategy and the political objectives for south vietnam. >> sir, you started off saying you can have

it was right after the united states began bombing north vietnam, which was a massive escalation of the war. >> official u.s. navy films show our bombers plastering north vietnam communication and boat repair facilities. >> the united states have been there before under president kennedy. but it had not expanded the war period did during that in 1965. i joined with a very few number of people. i think there were 12 of us. we went down here to this spot in front of the statue here and held a vigil against the war in vietnam. it was february in wisconsin. the temperature that evening was brutally cold. it was probably below zero. there was snow, up to about a foot deep in snow, so it was absolutely awful. walked in a us circle around here with placards local males inr, cars came by and started throwing cans of beer at us, so we knew we were distinctly in the minority. we were aware of that earlier, but this made it awfully clear to us. in 1965 when the united states bombed north vietnam for the of 1955,e, in february opposition to the war was ms. gill -- miniscule. there was hardly anybod

southern festival of books held in nashville, tennessee, a panel discussion on modern complex from the vietnam war to the war on terror. this event features three authors. it's an hour and 20 minutes. >> i want to thank you all for coming today -- microphone. >> i want to thank you all for coming today. this panel is entitled "the invisible hands of war: politics, legality, and tactic in modern conflict." my name is tom schwartz, a professor of history and political science at vanderbilt and i've been asked to chair the panel. i have been asked also by the organizers of the southern festival of books to remind you that there is a signing of books afterwards upstairs and outside of the books are available for purchase, and that purchases through the bookstore book event of your, some of the proceeds certainly go towards this event and towards subsidizing that event. we encourage you in that regard. also another one of the injunctions that we received these past few weeks was to keep our introduction to breathe, and my guess, the actual highlight highlighted. the thi mrs. napolitano paso undoubt

but wallace was not affected by the vietnam issue. to have a certain amount of support in the south come what may. >> there's not a dime's worth of difference in either one of the two parties. and if they don't give the people a choice, we're going to give them a choice by having a new party. >> it was just a plain, ordinary, anti-government streak in him. it was his act. you bastards in washington are not going to tell me what to do. >> and you anarchists had better have your day now, because i tell you again, you're through after november 5th in this country. >>> you go ahead. >> ladies and gentlemen, could you lower those signs, please? i have some very sad news for all of you. and i think sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people [announcer:]startup-ny. >> and you anarchists had better have your day now, because i tell you again, you're through after november 5th in this country. and creating 1750 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property tax

king signed to write to be beyond the vietnam speech. clarence, being the lawyer he is, gives him a speech that basically said on the one hand this and on the other hand this. dr. king read the speech and said what is this? you are giving me a brief on the one hand and the other hand and that's not what i wanted. he took the assignment away from clarence jones and gave it to vincent harding, his neighbor and gave the assignment to vincent harding. he took responsibility of writing it. he died a few months ago. >> how hard was it for you to rip the cover off of the onion? there's a lot of negative about what was going on. >> i go back to these three principal biographers who i cannot thank enough. the work to make it easier for him it was to write a book about king. i wanted to focus on this last year. there are so many layers. i wanted this book to be a historical novel. historically accurate and at the back of the book, all types of pages of endnotes and see the resource material i used to write the text. i wanted to write it -- i worked

army specifically and the military community overlearned the lessons of vietnam particularly that is how the first gulf war was fought but then under learned other lessons. how much of the counter insurgency manual basically comes right out of lessons from vietnam? >> an extraordinary amount of it. a whole generation of army officers. david petraeus who did his own doctoral work at princeton on vietnam. my doctoralal work at oxford led to my first book. the generation of army officers was fascinated by how the army had done so badly in vietnam, how the world's greatest power had been defeated in the small war. and so military successful political was lost. >> did we really militarially lose it? >> there is a story about a colonel talking about the paris peace negotiations and harry told the colonel you know you never defeated us on the battlefield and the colonel responded that may be true but completely irrelevant to what we are talking about. war is ultimately succeed or failed as whether the nations fail political objectives. we approached the war too much like a conventional war f

the madison campus was very much in an uproar at the time over the vietnam war in general and they tended to focus a lot of their hate -- not hate, but their uncomfortableness and anger at the army mathematics research center. they felt there were creating theons to destroy not only enemy being soldiers, vietnam war soldiers, but also civilians. i felt this was not a good approach to the war, but these are mathematicians sitting around trying to figure out how ratios, but they did not think of themselves so much as creating weaponry. itre was an attempt to bomb in 1970. it was the largest mystic terrorism incident until oklahoma city in the united states. it is not just a local story. that were hoping to close it down, and the people going after it were part of what they called the new year's eve gang. armstrong was the leader of the new year's eve gang. he and his brother were part of the four people who decided to bomb sterling hall. very much like they did in oklahoma city. it was ammonium nitrate and they set off jet fuel to blow up the building, essentially. they took out the physics

our first served for 27 years and treaved medal of honor for valor during the vietnam war. he retired from the marine corps in 1979 and served as deputy secretary assistant for the navy until 2009. he also served as acting assistant secretary of the navy from january through april 2009. please welcome medal of honor recipient and u.s. marine barnum. barney [applause] >> our second panelist serve in the army for 26 years. he was one of america's first soldiers to don the green beray -- green beret authorized by president kennedy to be worn by the special forces. he served two tours in vietnam. and also served in panama. on september 17, 1969 his heroic actions in vietnam earned him the highest military award. after more than 45 years, he finally received the recognition he deserved and was decorated with the medal of honor by president obama in march of this year. please welcome medal of honor recipient u.s. army sergeant first class melvin morris. [applause] >> i've prepared a few questions for our panelist but i'll give you plenty of time later on for your questions as well

senator fulbright called similar hearings during the vietnam war. that case, the general did testify. where are those hearings on this war, where are the similar events? people like richard clarke need to be called in so they can explain fully what they know and then it can be put to the full light of day, so the american people can say through their elected representatives, we think this is a good idea, we want you to stick with it, or this has not worked out, let to something different. but the key thing we need is pur peace was in october in 2002 with the use of the authorization of the use of forces in iraq. other than that there has been just arguments about the budget. i want to raise the issue of how the branding of the war on terrorism has expanded to so many other countries, some of which, countries that america does not know anything about. the label,ed operation enduring freedom, there was a team in the ,aribbean, the horn of africa kurdistan, in the philippines. given the fact that so many arab and muslim countries have now been targeted

there is a ceremony in the vietnam's memorial in washington. secretary chuck hagel set to speak any time now. and in the meantime shannon bream is live on the national mall with more on the goings on there. >> reporter: you are hearing the sneak preview of the zack brown. they will be here tonight for the first ever of its kind on the national mall on veterans day. there will be ri hannah and bruce springstein and ophrah will be here. they want to have a emphasis on those who are still serving here in the present day right now, there is a number of military folks and families getting an up front vow of the zack brown band. they will be honored guest tonight and 12000 societies reserved for veterans and family and active doubt military. expect to have 800000 people here tonight. organizers are going to have information on how you help. and they are helping those who served our country and still serving our country. and they want every day to be veteran's day and sometimes it is it easier for us to write a check. but they want to encourage average

vietnam. afterwards, he took on the uxo, unexploded ordinates problem as his job and mission. >> for me, vietnam was an unclosed chapter in the sense that, when i left, it was a painful experience, and it's one of the reasons that i hoped that i would come back and in better circumstances because that was a terrible state in which to leave things. >> reporter: this unexploded bomb was spotted by a farmer at the ellen of his rice patty less than 30 yards from his home and where his children play. having attended one of searcy's bomb education classes, not only did the farmer know what it was, he knew how to call one of searcy's more than 20 bomb removal teams trained to safely blow it up in place rather than risk trying to remove it. before leaving, the bomb squad found two more uxos in the farmer's field. >> the seriousness of the unexploded ordinate situation in vietnam is beyond what most americans can imagine. we dropped about 15 tons of ordinates in this part of the world in the most heavily bombed area of the warfare. hardly a tree left standing in quang tri province when the war was over.

unpack the notion that we can draw this kind of straight line from sherman after world war ii and the vietnam war that the rules that guided sherman and his men were very different from the kinds of war that we fight today unfortunately. >> if there are no more questions i want to thank dr. rubin again. [applause] and i want to remind you again that the books are available at the parnassus book tend and also remind you that the southern festival of books is free and it's free thanks to the generous contributions of patrons. and for us to continue to offer this we need your support so if you can, if you will, you can go on line. you can go by the tent and help us continue this great tradition into your 27, 28, 29, 30. thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] coming up next on encore booknotes "fox news" sunday host chris wallace author of "character" talks about what he considers to be notable acts of presence encouraged. this is about an hour. and the point to the book is that a lot of what we understand ouhe pre c-span: chris wallace, why did you name your book "character"? >> guest:

secretary of defense chuck hagel will be at the vietnam memorial for a veterans day service. he will present the keynote remarks. this year's ceremony celebrates the 30th anniversary of the dedication of the three servicemen statue. that's our 10 1:00 p.m. -- that startss at 1:00 p.m. the good news is that the weather is cooperating. a picture-perfect veterans day. >> for mid-november, it does not get better than this. lots of sunshine, 64 degrees at reagan national. 63 in manassas. 63 in winchester. there are a couple of clouds moving in from the east. that should say -- state east of 95 today. lots of sun in parts of the west. that will help us to warm up into the mid to upper 60's with pleasant conditions. temperatures will be dropping a little bit as we head to the hours of the concert of valor. 61 degrees at 6:00. it starts at 7:00. we expect 59 by then. you will want a jacket and you may want to move around to stay warm. it certainly will not be bitter cold. forecast, the arctic front is coming. when we expect it to arrive, coming up in your forecast. morning, the monter

host: this is our camera live outside the vietnam memorial. e the people lined up to mark veterans day. there are several events happening around washington on the mall. over at the arlington national vice president joe biden will participate in that wreath laying ceremony at 11:00 eastern time. minutesgot about 15 left with verna jones. we want to get your thoughts on veterans issues this morning. howard is in florida and on the democratic line. i live in seminole, florida. when i was in the service, i was in vietnam. out, i am turning 65 this year. going to be losing some of my benefits over at the v.a.. i am going to get social security. understand. i have been going there and had operations and everything else. i don't have a lot of money. 65 and losingbe my benefits and i just don't social security could go to that to pay for people who can afford it. guest: thank you so much for your service and for sharing that information. i will ask you to call the american legion. i think we need more information. has changed, it may put you in a diff

hue's place in history long regarded as the heart of the imperial dynasty changed forever during the vietnamf some of the most bitter fighting of the war. during the lunar new year, the tet holiday, usually there was a sensation of hostilities, more than 100 cities all over south vietnam were attacked by the north vietnamese and vc. hue quickly fell. you have seen these images. it was footage like this that turned finally a great part of the american public against the war. the u.s. marines fought house to house to retake the city. a vicious 3 1/2-week-long battle. eventually, artillery and air support were called in. the city was saved. and, of course, largely destroyed in the saving. the civilian population caught in the cross fire were equally devastated. the north vietnamese to their enduring shame had while controlling the city rounded up anyone seen as a potential enemy and either disappeared them away to unknown prisons or killed them outright. most notoriously when they massacred almost 3,000 people, rolling them, many of them still alive in mass graves in and around hue. duk knows f

host: this is our camera live outside the vietnam emorial. you can see the people lined up to mark veterans day. there are several events happening around washington on the mall. over at the arlington national cemetery, vice presideoe

. >> reporter: lawrence lynn served in the vietnam war. he and others tell stories of being harassed when they returned from service. >> when i got out in '73, it seemed like we were more like baby goers. we didn't get the respect. some people didn't want to let people know they were in the service. they get a lot more respect now when they come back from afghanistan and iraq which is really great. >> reporter: congresswoman jackie spears says she thinks veterans day should be every day and says she is thankful for the veterans for the honor the veterans get today. >> i think we have grown up. the vietnam war was a war in which the kids of the 60s and 70s spoke out and i think many of those who served then felt like they were not welcomed home. >> reporter: i have to tell you it is a breathtaking site to be here in san bruno. 40,000 people are buried here. that is not lost and all the people that are now here in the ceremony. the ceremony is just ending. it's like many other ceremonies going on around the country. sal castaneda ktvu channel

-- we lost the war in vietnam. one of the reasons we lost was that the will of the american people was broken. we know that war is an act of politics by violent means. and that by engaging in the act of war, you are determining one person's will or one group of people's will over another group of people's will. it's a political contest. in the vietnam war, the united states -- it was assessed by the chief of staff of the army and others that our will broke. and he said, what can i do? what can i do as chief of staff of the army to ensure that the american people are engaged in any future conflict? and he said, what i will do is i will resign the force so that the united states army can never again be committed to a ground combat situation, a ground war without bringing along the american people. and he decided to make sure that the national guard and reserve component were fully integrated into the active component. so you couldn't just send the active component. if the active component were to go, it would require

and that they should get out of the vietnam war. with the leadership of the john birch society had taken a position in support of the war and gently pushed under the purchase society and so that free-market idea and for the of businessman as he is it is of a ragtag bunch. and to foster the development of libertarian ideas. to meet that intellectual capacity the decade is a to-do's the premiere libertarian think tank. he underwrites of group which organizes on college campuses. but at that time libertarians were trying to reach out to white -- to the right and the left on the core issues to agree. that never quite worked out. but in addition chiral stars to find some of libertarian party. ended the 1980 elections he recruits his brother david as the vice-presidential candidate. and the philanthropy was started it at archaeological digs. through the seven ages parties as the states in the hamptons. but there was the message behind this said the idea to run an koch on the ticket was to circumvent campaign finance laws. he reported of co

i experienced the brunt end of that coming out of vietnam. so now seeing the young folks coming into the military, young men and women, and still having faith in our country, faith in our services, is rewarding to me. knowing that what i did and what happened to me during the vietnam era was not a loss. >> okay guys. stop and see us again, okay? >> and john tells us one thing that got him through those tough times in battle, the uso. and after 13 years at war, you can't help but believe the same is true for today's soldiers and airmen. so, do you want to say thank you? well you should. you want to consider donating whatever money you can afford to our uso turkey for troops telethon. the money we raise today will buy thanksgiving food baskets. so call this number. 202-895-5560. the troops really appreciate your help and lord knows they deserve it. topper is up next with the forecast. >>> are you looking for a way to say thank you to a veteran today? why not buy them a thanksgiving food basket and the we are making it so easy for you. just call

host: this is our camera live outside the vietnam memorial. you can see the people lined up to mark veterans day. there are several events happening around washington on the mall. over at the arlington national vice president joe biden will participate in that wreath laying ceremony at 11:00 eastern time. minutesgot about 15 left with verna jones. we want to get your thoughts on veterans issues this morning. howard is in florida and on the democratic line. i live in seminole, florida. when i was in the service, i was in vietnam. out, i am turning 65 this year. going to be losing some of my benefits over at the v.a.. i am going to get social security. understand. i have been going there and had operations and everything else. i don't have a lot of money. 65 and losingbe my benefits and i just don't social security could go to that to pay for people who can afford it. guest: thank you so much for your service and for sharing that information. i will ask you to call the american legion. i think we need more information. has changed, it may put you

and he spoke today at the vietnam veteran's memorial wall. secretary hegel's remarks were shorter and more to the point, as he always is. watch. >> the wall reminds us to be honest in our telling history. there's nothing to be gained by glossing over the darker portions of war, the vietnam war. we must openly acknowledge pass mistakes. and we must learn from past mistakes. defense secretary today speaking at the vietnam memorial. >> one of the things that's pending before congress is a formal request that president obama made of them on monday of this week. president obama wants to deploy another 1500 troops. he will not send them until congress votes on it. until congress finally weighs in on this military act against isis. he's also directly asked for congress to fund this military operation. it's been underway since august. so far, it's costing $8 million a day and they want to double that. since the president made his formal request yesterday, one republican senator has said so far, the newly-elected senator tim scott who doesn't sound too

[applause] [applause] >> over the decades, our vietnam veterans didn't always receive the thanks and t they deserved. that's a fact. but, as we have been reminded again today, our vietnam vets were patriots and are patriots. you served with valor, you made us proud and your service is with us for eternity. so no matter how long it takes, no matter how many years goes by, we will express our gratitude for your extraordinary service. may god watch over don sloat. may god keep safe those who wear our country's uniform and bennie adkins. i would ask our chaplain to return to the stage. >> let us continue to pray. as we go forth, do not be afraid. have peace and courage and hold on to what is good. and help the suffering. we honor all people, let us love and serve and may god's blessing be upon us to remain with us always. amen. >> and at this point, i would welcome everybody to join the sloat family and adkins family. i hear the food is pretty good. and once again, to all of you who served and your families who serve along with them. the nation's grateful and your commander in chief could

the street. why would we leave them out there? >> joe hunt was drafted and sent to vietnamhe age of 19. >> i used to have nightmares when i came home and that pretty much blocked it out of my mind. >> he is glad the government is trying to do more. >> i think it is great, because we were drafted. we were forced to go. >> for hagel, it is about doing the right thing by vietnam veterans who came home with little recognition of their struggles. >> there was no reflection of experiences and what a veteran of a war carries with him or her. they deserve another chance. it is the right thing to do. i am so privileged i have an opportunity to be a part of that. >> barbara starr, cnn, washington. >> now, the two-month long cease-fire in ukraine could be about to collapse. a source told us they are raging along the line of contact between the pro-russian rebels and the military. just like it was before. russia is reinforcing troops and moving heavy weapons into southeastern ukraine. the nato allied commander says he supports the theory with the weapons. moscow denies the allegations.

[applause] >> over the decades, our vietnam veterans didn't always received the thanks from others. e have been reminded again vets were vietnam patriots and are patriots. you served with valor, made us proud, and your service is with us for eternity. no matter how long it takes, no matter how many years go by, we will express our attitude for your extraordinary service. watch over you and all those who have sacrificed for our country. may god keep safe those who wear our country's uniform and veterans. may god continue to bless the united states of america. at this point, i asked the chaplain to return to the stage for the benediction. let us continue to pray. as you go forth, do not be afraid. go into the world in peace and courage. find what is good. strengthen the fainthearted. help the suffering. honor all people. let us love and serve to make god's blessing be upon us and remain with us always. amen. >> amen. >> and at this point i would for ae everybody to join reception. i hear the food is pretty good. once again to all of you who serve and your families who serve along with

nolde, the wife of the man considered to be the last official combat casualty of the vietnam war. band's burial at washington national cemetery. >> looking at mrs. nolde, the wife of the colonel who was the last man to die in vietnam, she came to washington for the funeral with her five children, some brothers and sisters and the whole family. and after the fooneral service, the president had them come in. he says they were a typical american family and that she had conducted herself and walked in like a first lady. and then on the kids, the 17-year-old boy who had a ragged beard and a mustache and long hair, the type that cbs would pick out, and they did and make a statement on why his father died. it was superb. he said he was proud of his dad, fought for peace. the 16-year-old daughter, blond, blue-eyed looked up at the president and said just could i kiss you. at this point, there was a long silence and i had been making notes, looked up and the president was just standing there. he started to say something and couldn't say it. paused for quite a bit longer. more silence and th

fifth cavalry, first cavalry division air mobile in combat operations against armed enemy in the republic of vietnam on april 10, 1969. the reconnaissance platoon was moved into a bunker complex when the lead elements begin taking concentrated fire. the command post was in danger of being overrun. with an m-16 machine gun blazing from his hip, he rushed forward and assumed a defensive position

>> from april 1967 to april 1968, it shifted against him because of his opposition to the vietnam wari have seen three biographers on here before. without the heavy lifting by the historians, i cannot have written a death of a king. no one has ever focused on the text. they have not focused on the last year of his life april 4, 1967 to 1968, one year to the date. what is the last year like? how does he navigate? how is america treating him? he left five years after i have a dream. he involved in the five-year period. >> into the back, you say you didn't 19 interviews for this book. which one did you learn the most? >> good question. i suspect there is nothing like talking to correct coretta scott king. i talked to coretta scott king many times. mr. hardy passed away who wrote the vietnam speech for dr. king. he believed and he said to me many times that he believed that speech beyond vietnam put a target on his back.

the vietnam war veteran? >> nobody is bet every qualitied to speak on that than john mccain and i believe -- again, everyone gets a different lesson from vietnam but the one that i have and certainly john mccain has because he was there, when you escalate, you give the enemy a chance to escalate their defenses. when you tell them what you are going to do, you give the enemy the opportunity to plan. i will tell isis whatever we have to do, use whatever weapons we have. whether we do or not, that's up to the commander in chief. >> we have more to discuss, congressman. i want to you stand by. a quick break. we'll turn to iran. what is iran up to and iraq and more. right after this. e than the dri. it's more than the car. for lotus f1 team, the competitive edge is the cloud. powered by microsoft dynamics, azure, and office 365, the team can gain real time insights and instantly share information around the globe. when every millisecond counts, staying competitive begins with the cloud. this is the microsoft cloud.

the military collapse of our ally south vietnam the nation on behalf of which we extended those billions of dollars and thousands of lives. if the bicentennial helps us focus on the contrast between our idealism and our crimes, so much the better. now the most ambitious politicians endeavor to speak to this national mood. an entire class of them dubbed the watergate babies were swept into congress in 1975 pledging a third reform of america's broken institutions. and nearly alone among ambitious politicians ronald reagan took a different road. returning to the nation's attention toward the end of his second term as americans governor pundits began speculating about which republicans might succeed richard nixon and then thanks to john which ones might succeed his replacement gerald ford. reagan when he was asked about watergate insisted it said nothing important about america at all. asked about vietnam he would always say america had not expended enough islands that the greatest immorality is to ask young men to fight or die for my country if it's not a cause we are willing to win. one of

the american people loved it. that is when we started taking another look at vietnam war veterans. the second about reagan is, during the course of my book on reagan's post-presidency, i interviewed dr. roger peale, who is the head at saint elizabeth hospital, where john hinckley was institutionalized for many years. one year after hinckley shoots ronald reagan, the doctor gets a phone call from the white house physician. reagan wants to go over and meet with hinckley. the doctor wants to know why. he says, the president wants to tell hinckley that he forgives him. and he wants to pardon him. he could not issue any type of actual pardon, but he wanted to let him know, in his christian faith and his boundless forgiveness, ability to forgive, that he forgave hinckley. because peelepen, huddled with the psychiatrists who were taking care of hinckley. this is after the trial and after the conviction. and he calls the white house back and says, it would not be advisable, because hinckley has no remorse. he is a sociopath. all it would do is empower him and make him feel like what he did

the system is the enemy that's keeping us down, keeping the vietnamese down in vietnam and here in the u.s., so i -- so i was more like a class solidarity, you know, and then the rainbow coalition, you know, brought it out as well as the panthers. the panthers not the enemy, carlos, it's the system and here, read the red boar, you know, and then the cuban revolution, so we started becoming more anti-imperialist. >> does that jive with you? >> yeah, definitely. one thing can i say is i'm struck by the role of culture that if politics don't bond people, which, you know, folks have their different political strategies and you see a lot of that on display in the poor people's campaign where there are big personalities, there's strategic differences. the question about does selc allow other folks to real be part of the decision-making or is it just lip service? mean, not everybody is a fan of ralph abernathy. a lot of people are very critical of him and yet i think he had an impossible position that he was placed in, and part of i think the mistakes he made, of course, was that he tried to

all these people in varying degrees saw themselves as opponents of the vietnam war. and saw that as linked to the abandonment of the war on poverty by 1968. here king presented his vision. one that was not just about how sclc defined poverty as jobs or income or a solution to poverty but one that included everyone's ideas. the chicano activists offered a familiar refrain about the burgeoning relationship between them and civil rights activists, representing more urban chicanos reminded king that "conferring is a two-way street." african americans must listen to them and include them in campaigning. reyes -- dominated the room in a cap committee defense of the land grant rights. -- and i also will not go into all the details of the land grant struggle but i will be happy to talk about that in q&a. the delegates bonded over food, culture. the growing realization that they were stronger together than they were a part. and perhaps most importantly, that sclc took their issue seriously. so miles horton, the founder of the highlander folk's school, the training school or ce

new york at columbia university, the storming of the gates during a violent demonstration against the vietnamar became a symbol of a generation's protest in a year fraught with assassination and rioting. and in france, the government all but fell to an alliance of students and workers. the year ended with the establishment back in power, but this dissident youth culture had become international and politicized. one result was the rejection of all forms of establishment art, and the effects of that are still with us. ♪ o beautiful ♪ for spacious skies ♪ for amber waves... the heroic symbols of world war ii are ironically recycled by edward kienholz in the portable war memorial. images of glory from the last just war reverberate bitterly at the end of the sixties. ♪ america! america! ♪ god shed his grace on thee ♪ ♪ and crown thy good with brotherhood... ♪ this is maya yin-ling's vietnam veterans memorial in washington, d.c., where the names of all the americans who died in that war are inscribed. initially, her design evoked storms of protest because it was considered unheroic. both pop and mi

>> that's the talking point? vietnam war? whoa! >> let's see how it is actually -- >> there are yoga moves on that -- >> how did they dig their way out of this hole? it is getting bigger and bigger. >> because the media lets them do it. the lie of the year, not designated by fox news but by fact checkers was that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. that was the lie of the year. and the media shrugs their shoulders. remember the video of romney saying that 47% of people are too dependent on government. that actually, it ran on every media, front cover for months. this is actually a video of the architect of obamacare saying we have to pass because american people are too stupid and he did say, it doesn't say it once, says it three times. i think that the problem for the obama administration is that no one in the obama administration -- they are acting like they haven't heard it. >> and jonathan gruber says it was regrettable and off the cuff. >> how do you say something throw times off the cuff? >> like a gaff in washi

the special tribute for vietnam vets coincides with the war's 50th anniversary. one man who served in vietnam as a combat medic said that today is all about those who didn't make it back home. >> veteran's day is always really special. it's not so much for me, everybody else, feels that they're with me and that's the special part of veteran's day. >>> veteran's day officially held on the 11th of november which is on tuesday. >>> six flags is also honoring military personnel this holiday. it's offering discounted tickets for any guest veterans would like to bring. >>> ceremonies were held for a new veteran's resource center. the center opened this afternoon in the san leandro main library. a spokeswoman said the idea is to help veterans navigation civilian life and learn about sources available. >> the veteran's resource center is an opportunity for veterans to connect with not only programs, services and valuable information in the community that can connect them with the services they need. >> reporter: the veterans resource center is being financed with a $6,000

this year's special features, on those in the vietnam war the parade starts at 11:00. once it gets going, there will be 100 different groups making their way down market street as part of the parade route t is video of the event last year. this year, the parade will be lead by 300 motorcycles driven by vietnam veterans, two dozen horses. and a vietnam war era helicopter will be included in this parade. along with that, there will be 300 oakland military student cadets and 1,000ortc students taking part. the parade begins at 11:00. the route is from 2nd and market to civic center plaza. you can expect street closures to start to go into effect at 10:00. if you are driving in the city, you want to keep that in mind later on this morning. live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2 news >>> >> thanks, ali. >> >> two u.s. marines and an army wife will be granted u.s. citizenship at a ceremony in honor of veteran's day. it will be the first time the u.s. citizenship and immigration services has conducted a naturalzation ceremony on that base. the people being sworn in are from me

you walk out the front of this building and go down the hill, first memorial you'll come to is the vietnam wall. if you continue across the mall, you'll then see the korean war memorial, and then up the reflecting pool at the other end you'll see the world war ii memorial. and in the distance you'll see the marine memorial, you'll see the navy memorial further up the mall. you'll see all sorts of recognition to those men and women i was privileged to serve with as soldier and as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. and you can do this all over this city, but you will never see anything, until this moment, until this program, that pays tribute to the men and women of the department of state, the dip lo to mats, the foreign service officers, the political appointees, all of the others -- civil servants and foreign service nationals -- who do such a great job for this department on health, the environment. we talk to friend and adversaries, and we work with adversaries to make sure they do not become enemies. this is vital work. the in the best interests of the nation. we talk about all the