the u.s. that unified all of vietnam. others claim the real threat did not come from north vietnam, but came from within south the at nam from the national liberation front and the vietcong. what was my strategy trying to argue of the moral justify ability of the war, i tried to promote skeptics like david halberstam and his book published in 1969 and stanley hoffmann, a colleague of mine from harvard who, despite their skepticism, conceded what i took to be true at the time that a majority of south vietnamese did not want to live under communist rule and should have been allowed to freely choose their own government. while most the enemies were nationalist, not all of them accepted the communist version of nationalism. in that regard, i found support in what was revealed in the pentagon papers, that a war begun as a rebellion in south vietnam against the oppressive and corrupt regime was extensively co-opted by the north vietnamese in 1959 and, to a lesser extent, in 1954. there was evidence of an armed attack across an i

the vietnam war ended today. in this room in paris. >> the treaty basically said that south vietnamese get to keep their government. the north vietnamese get to coop their soldiersen south vietnam. the north vietnamese release the 500 american p.o.w.s and everybody promises to stop fighting. >> as far as this administration is concerned, we have done the very best that we can. against very great obstacles. and we finally have achieved a peace with honor. i know it gags some of you to write that phrase but that is true. and most americans realize it is true. >> it is the americans who are celebrating. they are leaving. the vietnamese are not celebrating. they must stay and face the uncertainty of whatever is going to happen to them next. >> in hanoi, the american military involvement in the vietnam war finally came to an end. if anything symbolized the american agony of vietnam it was the prisoners. >> most were pilots. many had spent more than six years in prison. now they were on their way home. >> it wasn't rea

it's the woodstock generation coming to vietnam. >> the public campaign against the war in vietnam tookn in washington today. men who have been there began demonstrations armed with speeding the end to the conflict. ♪ bring our brothers home >> business men have protested. students have protested. mothers have protested. everybody has. but the men who fought the war who know what it's like, who know what we are fighting haven't. and it's the first time in history they're going to do that. >> lieutenant died until i got a medal. i got a silver star, purple heart. it's in the rest of this garbage. it doesn't mean a thing! >> good evening. the war in vietnam has often been camouflaged by misleading statistics of body counts, weapons captured, hamlets pacified. but we are now in the midst of new more revealing statistics, the 2.5 million words of the pentagon papers. these once secret papers tell the agonizing story of the u.s. involvement in vietnam through four administrations of expanding commitment. the pentagon papers have touched off the deepest controversies, centering on whether the

get the local angle. he covered vietnampentagon and white house correspondent. he has anchored cbs's "face the nation" for the past 24 years and his final program will air may 31. peter arnett reported from vietnam for the associated press from 1962 until the fall of saigon in 1975, longer than almost all reporters. his fearless reporting made him a target. he was beaten by the south vietnamese secret police in 1963. there is a photo of that in the exhibit. he won a pulitzer for his coverage in 1966 and had a long career at c.n.n. photographer david kennerly won the 1972 pulitzer for photography for his images of vietnam. he was one of the youngest winners, just 25, and he went on to be president for its personal -- president ford's personal photographer. he has had a long and distinguished career. he was just named editor for politico and will cover the 2016 election in a series of photo essays. we are in good hands with our moderator margaret brennan. she serves as the state department correspondent and her foreign-policy

vietnam. it's a book end to what i know about the photography of vietnam . want to make -- there are so many -- thisere is somebody in the room who took one of the greatest pictures of vietnam that should've won the pulitzer prize. frank johnson took this picture. it was called "peace church." stand up please. [applause] again, the gentleman in the photograph is mike, standing next to frank. [applause] this picture and there have been so many great photos from the vietnam war but that photo really sums it up. the whole point of showing visitors -- these is that i i believe and i have been asked questions about it all the time, but the pictures really do go right to the heart and soul of your psyche. you can look at them, hold them. pictures are our history. it is a scrapbook of what we have gone through. and then this is a picture i took about three years ago on my iphone. but it's, i can't come to washington without going to the vietnam memorial. i have four of my classmates from westlin high school in oregon are on the wall. they got killed before i got ove

what were we doing with the soviet union, arms control vietnam? >> obviously we were in the cold war. the soviet union was the main reason that there was a cold war going on. at the same time, we were trying to open relations with the soviet union. arms control agreements. all sorts of agreements about how we can operate in this semi-hostile world. a whole bunch of things were going on to try to improve that relationship, and i think what is unusual is, or amazing, when you think about 1972, and i will get to that, you have a presidential visit to china and a few months later you have a presidential visit to russia. meetings at the highest level, agreements, success in both areas. this was an amazing buildup, and the china trip was certainly the first part of it. so the russians were the big providers on vietnam. vietnam obviously was a huge issue. nixon had run the presidency -- run for presidency, i will end that war if i get elected, and here we were. we got to 1972, and the vietnam war was not over. the agreement was not there, and so forth. th

the vietnam lesson was apropos to the middle east. ( applause ) he didn't think that the vietnam lesson was apropos to the middle east. that would have been valid if rumsfeld hadn't already learned firsthand lessons of the middle east from the middle east. >> i would send cables to report back on my observations and i titled one of them back in november of 1983 "the swamp." i suspect we ought to lighten our hand in the middle east and keep reminding ourselves that it is easier to get into something than it is to get out of it. >> jon: yeah, you should have kept that in mind. how did you forget that lesson? why did you forget that lesson? oh it was the 80s. everyone of high on coke. you know how stephen king doesn't remember writing "cujo." same with me and my middle east quagmire memo. and why should he? because as we have seen, learning curves... and it's not

country paid tribute to their dad said the vietnam veterans memorial. >> i lost my dad in vietnam in 1968. i was 11. diane: a common bond as children who did not have fathers to celebrate father's day with after the vietnam war. >> there are still people suffering the effects of that war. diane: roses lined the base of the memorial. >> there is that part of you that will always be that child even though you have moved on. it makes you a stronger person. diane: along with white roses with wet tips, for those who died in memory, for servicemembers who believe their loved ones died as a result of their service after they returned. >> a lot of them are agent orange related, cancer, ptsd

, one of the many projects i did on vietnam. mr. scully: you going to announce running for the senate, and most people told you you could not win. former senator webb: well, i decided -- first, i spent a lot of time thinking. people were worried. people become worried that you have to make a decision. you have to get out there and do these things. i wanted to be clear in my head that i could put 100% of my energy into a campaign. i announced nine days before the election. we had no money and no campaign staff, and we were 33 points behind, and i decided to put the issues out that we cared about and tuesday on the issues as best i could, not to be sidetracked, and a lot of things that are inevitable in the campaign. we stayed on message. we never approached the money that the other side was able to raise, but we got 14,000 volunteers to come out and help us, and i think that was the difference. mr. scully: i have to ask you about the wind, and it became a youtube sensation, the term "macaca." did you realize the significance? fo

anchor: the government of south vietnam surrendered. at 10:00 on the 30th, general doung van minh, who had been president only two days, called on south vietnamese troops to lay down their arms. then he met with reporters inside the palace. he said that the provisionary revolutionary government forces would be there any moment. and so, everyone just waited. [explosions] reporter: 12:00 noon. the first soldier carrying the flag of the national liberation front. smashing through the fence of the gates and rolling on to the grounds of the independence palace. the great soviet-built t-54 tanks. then they all burst into spontaneous firing. this is jubilation, not directed at any, in the air. [gunshots] reporter: and the prg flag. the palace guard. there was no resistance from the palace guard. they were disarmed quietly and then lined up on the grass their weapons taken away. jack: well, if the north vietnamese troops were given to celebration, i guess from their point of view, it was quite something to celebrate. it was an awfully long way a

and there is where i think the lessons from the vietnam war do come into play. w over time that the strategy wasn't working. but because the strategy was moving at incremental paces, they never felt there was an imperative to step in and set the record straight. we're ten months into this new war against isis. we had americans die overseas, spending hundreds of billions of dollars. i think there is goodwill on both sides to do something about it. but the clock is ticking and we're going to get into a vietnam situation in which congress is essentially permanently abdicating its responsibility if we don't do something soon. >> senator chris murphy of connecticut, thank you for your time. thank you for being so out there on this issue in terms of your consistent willingness to put yourself out there and speak out on this. you're a rare light on this in washington. i really appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, rachel. >> we'll be right back. your baby's chubby little hand latches onto your finger so hard it's like she's saying i love you. that's why aveeno's oat formula

there was a tremendous invasion from north vietnam, which kept it going and which broke the peace agreementve that and you don't have a north vietnam with sanctuaries in laos and vietnam. and after the peace agreement, we cut off aid, we didn't respond to north vietnamese invasion and we letdown our ally. if it had any chance at all, it was lost because we cut off military and economic assistance whereas in iraq the jury is still out whether the iraq government and the people can muster enough domestic support to defeat the enemy. >> very quickly, ambassador for those of us who lived through the horrendous video, the pictures that we saw with the u.s. embassy in saigon being taken over the helicopters removing the u.s. diplomats, all of those people dying in the process of that evacuation can you envision similar, horrific scene happening in baghdad around the u.s. embassy, the so-called green zone right now? >> no i don't think so. i believe the situations are entirely different. but that was a very painful time of course in all of our lives, the fall of saigon. and whatever the shortcomin

>> guest: highway one was the main highway in vietnam but stretched from the delta which is the area through the central islands into the three core and then into ichor which is where i was from da nang all the way north to the dmz the main highway. it was just called highway one. i believe that so-called highway one. >> host: what was your job? >> guest: my job as a convoy commander who is responsible for everything the convoy does and if there's an ambush they get through the ambush with this minimum trouble as possible. >> host: what made up of convoy? >> guest: a the convoy was made up of anywhere from 67 tracks the biggest one i was on was 140 trucks, vehicles from all branches of the service south vietnamese. we tried to get them to break it up into cereals going over it three or four day period. we went through operations and they turned us down and my surgeon told them we are going to get hit. the sergeant took a pencil this is in the book. he took a pencil and he marked three places on the map on the northside of the past. he said they are either going to get as here, they w

vietnam. what do you think we should learn from the veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan? >> there's much to learn. thankfully i have vietnam veterans in my family. i'm very motivated i what i learned from the vietnam veterans in my family years ago back in the late 70's and early 80's when they came home from war. i think catalyst for me today supporting our iraq and afghanistan veterans and trying to ensure that they have the services they need, they are shown the appreciation that they deserve our from what happened to our vietnam veterans and the shocking reality and the shameful way they were treated when they came home from war and the services that they needed that they did not get. we have much to learn there. we have, as i said -- there is a major epidemic within the military community area of those suffering from post-traumatic stress thankfully there are a lot of services within the ba that are being provided, but also within the military nonprofit support base, i think part of my feeling about this is that's with thousands of military charities that there are ou

it was part of the grand strategy to bring the vietnam war to an end. he could convince chairman mao and the communist leader of the soviet union to be nice and be our friends. he was thinking glasses and making toasts with the men arming our enemies and killing american soldiers in an absolutely futile attempt to bring the war to an end. he came away with communiques. the shanghai communique is a completely meaningless document. the arms control agreements. the year that they were signed. 1972. jim/injure -- schlesinger was head of the atomic energy commission. 1972, we produced the united states, more nuclear warheads than any year in our history. it did not end the arms race and it did not bring the war to an end. china and russia today are not our friends. it did not bring us together. evan: there were linkages in china. he wrote that china cannot be left outside the community of nations. he wanted to bring china in and make him a partner. he knew that only he could pull it off. that arms control treaty was flawed. for an american president to go to

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red means the service member died in vietnam. yellow is missing in action. nd white roses are for service members who died after the war like petit and brandy wolfson's father. ♪ what's your name on the wall ♪ ♪. >> everybody coming together is so moving and powerful. >> reporter: on the mall, stephanie ramirez, wusa9 news. >> the group sons and daughters in touch hoped the ceremony today. they -- hosted the ceremony today. they are hosting the american ground combat operations in vietnam this year. >>> always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> happy father's day! >> you, too, sir. >> question got an hour left. >> enjoy it. happy father's day to my father as well! >> absolutely. >> today was a decent day, certainly compared to yesterday. just an isolated shower. we start with our 3-degree guarantee which is topper's forecast. you know what? he's not bad. he nailed it. good job, topper. he'll inherit my forecast on monday. let's show you what's happening tonight. mid-80s still. it's a warm night and with dew points

the market economy was introduced in vietnam in 1986. as privatized [ speaking foreign language ] ♪ >> at the time she was appointed to lead the company, there were few factories in central vietnam and construction at tien sa had only just begun. but with the state-run mentality running strong in the corporate culture, the company was losing out to rivals. she personally knocked on the doors of many clients. [ speaking foreign language ] >> since their reboot in the private sector, sales have surged by more than 20% each year, and the workforce has increased three-fold. ha is planning to expand her company's business in preparation for the competition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪icompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪incompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪ecompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪vcompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪icompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪tcompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪acompetition with foreign affiliated firms. ♪ ♪bcompetition with foreign affi

it was part of the grand strategy to bring the vietnam war to an end. hought he could play the russians against the chinese. he thought he could convince chairman mao and the communist leader of the soviet union to be nice and be our friends. he was clinking evan: glasses and making toasts with the men arming our enemies and killing american soldiers in an absolutely futile attempt to bring the war to an end. he came away with nicely worded communiquÉs. the shanghai communiquÉ is a completely meaningless document. the chinese say, we think this and the american say, we think that. the arms control agreements. the salt agreements in 1972. jim schlesinger was head of the atomic energy commission. he said, with some pride 1972, we produced, the united states produced more nuclear warheads than any year in our history. it did not end the arms race and it did not bring the war to an end. china and russia today are not our friends. he did not bring us together. his campaign slogan of 1968. he tore us apart. tim:evan: he wrote that china cannot be left outside

the safety of his men. he would serve to combat tours in vietnam. he was presented the medal of honor on may 14, 1970 by president then. rising in the ranks, he retired from the marine corps as a major general. general livingston's philosophy on leadership is to lead from the front. he said finally that is true and inspiring. general livingston, thank you for being here. it is said that america will always be the land of the free as long as it is the home of the brave. a community, a city, a country can only flourish if it's people have the peace in their life and liberty of the opportunity in doing so, they make their community flourish with commerce and trade in this is driven to be the greatest, strongest, and most profitable nation on the air. so much of our way of life is secure with the sacrifices being made each and every day, there comes much need. that is why it is so important to have successful nonprofits in the military support base. as government alone cannot possibly feel there been so many experiences that have led me to realize we mus

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. >>> finally tonight, it's been 50 years since the start of the vietnam war, one of the longest and illion americans served in vietnam. but whether they returned home few got the homecoming they deserved. that changed this week for hundreds of vietnam vets. we get more from medal of honor recipient, colonel jack jacobs. >> reporter: home comings like these have been woven into our nation's fabric for our last decade welcoming home american forces from iraq and afghanistan. but for many who fought in the vietnam war, there was nothing welcome about coming home. >> i got trashed. >> i was ostracized spit on beat on. and employers wouldn't hire me. >> i wanted to be welcomed home. i didn't get that when i came home. >> reporter: that changed on friday. vietnam veterans from all over the southeast gathered at fort stewart for the homecoming they never had. >> is this the kind of thing you think helps some veterans feel like they are feeling appreciated for what they did? >> i don't think people realize the depth of feeling that those soldiers and sailman and marines feel. >> reporter: mo

sending photos to the children whose fathers he served with in vietnam. >> it brings you back to them what they went through. dia in northwest d.c., diane cho,ne: -- diane: diane cho, abc 7 news. anchor: the first site of feeling only four days after nine people were shot and killed in a bible study group. linda hernandez in the newsroom right now. this first service is a step forward. linda: more than 1200 people attended this morning's service. the theme was of healing, not hate. church bells rang out in charleston, s.c. this morning one of special significance today, to honor the victims gunned down inside the emmanuel ame church. ♪ today was the first time the historic house of worship reopened its doors since wednesday's deadly shooting. her mission or's packed into the very place where nine fellow church members were killed enduring stifling heat to support each other through prayer. >> there is a time and place for everything, and now is the time for us to focus on the nine families. linda: people even gathered in the bible study room. >> i want you to hug three persons next to

so i became the first reporter from a texas newspaper to go to vietnam. >> when the action did begin , was a veteran. i had been there four years and i was ready to roll. >> i was there because i wanted to be involved with the biggest american story of my generation. >> because i learned essentially how to control my fear. my choice was to get as close to the action in vietnam as i

you graduated at the height of the vietnam war. former senator webb: the night before we graduated, robert kennedy was assassinated. there were a lot of questions about the validity of our governmental process, the common sense of foreign policy, etc. we all knew what our duty was going to be and where we would be going. mr. scully: you are in your early 20's, about to be deployed to a war that had a lot of questions in this country, and you were front and center. former senator webb: i had an interesting discussion with my father who really did not like the way that mcnamara was running the war. i think he supported the war itself. when your father is saying "go in the navy, stay on the ship don't be a marine.," there were a lot of strong family discussions at home to rate i wanted to be a marine. the a marines over there fighting needed the kind of leadership that i thought i could bring and i wanted to go. mr. scully: what were your parents like? former senator webb: my dad has been a great hero. he went to night school for 26 ye

the vietnam veteran's were not treated well at all. and fortunately today, veterans are recognized for their service if anyone even has a disagreement with policy, they still don't take it out on the individual soldier. and, that seemed to be not the case in my time frame. and, i of course didn't experience that as badly as some others did. because, i came back with my squadron flying the same nine airplanes back that we took over in a quick turn around to go back overseas on another mission. so, for guys that came out of vietnam, 2 or 3 days later, they were out of uniform and on the street. that was a hard transition. damian: has it gotten easier i would imagine-- francis: yes, i think the military is making a real effort to transition people, help them with preparing for civilian jobs, going back to school that kind of thing. but, what's most important is the public acceptance of respecting people and shaking their hand. damian: i'll give you an example. my father-in-law, we went to visit the vietnam memorial in washington, d.c. for

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. >>> her image captured the world's attention and some say helped bring an end to the vietnam war. >ars later, the naked image of her as a young girl running from a napalm attack brings back bad memories. here is the second part of our report on where she is today. >> i am the girl in the picture in the vietnam war in 1972. i really glad to be alive. ♪ i look at that picture. i just wish and i dream the whole of my life i never see another child suffer like that. i still have the pain. i still have the scars. i still have the memory but my heart is healed. ♪ i'm so happy to be here in canada. as my second home. i'm living in toronto area. with my wonderful husband. ♪ i have two boys. ♪ my parents living with me, too. ♪ and i have my niece, danielle. this is the daughter of my younger brother, here in the picture. i sponsor her to canada to study and what i'm doing right now, i have a foundation. it's like kim foundation international. our mission that we just focus on helping the children who are victims of war, who are underprivileged. i realize that if i could escape that picture,

the safety of his men. and he would serve two combat tours in vietnam. he was presented the medal of honor on may 14, 1970, by president richard nixon. rise in the ranks he retired from the marine corps as a major general. general livingston's philosophy on leadership is to lead from the front. he said if i'm willing to do it, then i can ask you to do it or he never had a marine under his command, then say to them, i don't want to do this. following his example they all did their job and whatever he asked of them come and performed superbly. that is true and inspiring leadership. general livingston, thank you, sir, for being here. [applause] >> we are truly grateful for everything you have given in service to our nation. and i know we have several veterans here today so i want to personally say thank you to all of our veterans for being here and for stepping forward to serve our country. it has been said that the training of america will always be the land of the free, as long as it is the home of the brave. the veterans here today ensure we live in a fre

he fought the vietnam war on two friends, in southeast asia and at home. over there he is b-52 bombers. over here heave used bugs, break-ins, black bag jobs, political espionage to destroy his enemies. the domestic enemies the press. among them, nixon said to kissinger, the press is the enemy, the establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy, write that on the blackboard a hundred times and never forget it. >> nixon could be a below hard. he would below off seem like that and he -- he hated the press. that's absolutely true. but a certain amount of in addition on on these tapes is next on just showing off being these macho guy that he wasn't really -- you know all of the profanity that people get upset about. nixon was bad about swearing. lbj was different. nirvetion on was triebt something that he wasn't. about watergate and the thing that grabbed me ani have this dark view of watergate watergate was less a machiavellian plot to disrupt american civil rights than it was a screw up. nixon didn't -- >> >> did you have any word -- >> nixon didn't

the ones that got away went on to other villages. south vietnam remained a battlefield. shifted to the small city of tuscaloosa alabama, within the deep south of the united states of america. it was a familiar story. it started before the war between the states 100 years ago, which was fought and won for negro equality. negroes were taken out of slavery and freedom was guaranteed, but barriers were put before them, especially from the states that have lost that civil war the states of the southeast. the constitution of the united states came under debate as to whether it prohibited orrick knowledged such barriers. in 1954 it was made clear by the supreme court that the constitution guarantees equality for all. so, the great tests were met. tests that brought mob disorder and violence to the south, requiring that all troops to ensure the admittance of negro students. the vast majority of the united states was in sympathy with the negro, but some citizens were not. the u.s. government supported the negro, some of the separate state governments did not. and now, the test of

. >> i'm a girl in the picture in the vietnam war in 1972. alive. >> i looked at that picture, i dream it the whole of my life. i never see another child suffer like that. i still have the pain. i still have the scar. i still have the memory. but my heart is heal eded. i'm so happy to be here in canada as my second home. i'm living in toronto area with my wonderful husband. i have two boys. my parents living with me too. and i have my niece danielle. this is the daughter of my younger brother here in the picture. i sponsor her to canada to study. and what i'm doing right now, i have a foundation international. our mission that we focus and helping the children who are victims of war, who are underprivileged. i realize that if i couldn't escape that picture, i wanted to go back to work with that picture for peace. and that is my choice. >> this week the cnn original series the '70s, revisits the vietnam war. that's thursday night, 9:00 eastern and pacific. >>> a little girl a lullaby and the most terrifying story of her life. police called to

the issues. posts: as you write, vietnam has shaped american foreign-policy. the mistakes in vietnam with regard to iraq and afghanistan and other policy issues. former senator webb: a lot of people have wanted me to make that simple parallel, and i have resisted. i know that vietnam is kind of like a rorschach test with respect to foreign-policy, but even in my first book, which i wrote when i was in law school when i was 28 years old, i was talking more about how we should articulate our national security interests around the world and where we should be willing to be vigorous and terms of our involvement, which led me on one hand to say that the invasion of iraq, the occupation by the united states of countries and that part of the world, a huge strategic wonder, but at the same time, i think i can i have been one of the leading horses in discussing chinese expansionism and the way that we have to do with this situation that we are seeing now in the south china sea. i started writing about that and speaking about that 15 years ago. host: and we are seeing it

peter: in 1967, the american military was fully involved in the vietnam war. were american protestors. in the fall, 100,000 people marched on washington d.c. at berkeley, the tradition of protest continued with students staging massive anti-war demonstrations. the civil rights movement continued, achieving towering accomplishments and changing the national conversation on race. harry edwards: dr. king had received the nobel peace prize. lyndon johnson had signed both the civil rights bill and the voting rights bill. peter: but in neighborhoods in the bay area, problems of unemployment poverty, and police harassment were as entrenched as ever. two bay area men, huey newton and bobby seale, enrolled at merritt college in oakland, came up with a ten point plan as a solution. the black panther party was born. bettina: most of the program was about feeding the community, providing mobile clinics for healthcare, clothing for people, freedom schools, breakfast for children. peter: harry edwards was teaching sociology at san jose state when he decided to get involved

they suggest the labor chapter is enforceable, but what they mean is, if vietnam fails to meet the standardsa nonexistent vietnamese union would bring a claim in a nonexistent tribunal to compel vietnam to improve its rights. no. the only possibility is an outside group maybe an international labor federation could compel another country act united states to bling -- to bring a complaint in the abstract, and maybe after many years of tribunal litigation, that would result in some kind of penalty being imposed on vietnam. that is not in force ability. that is merely a process which might pretension to dish potentially impact been him on the grand scale. there's nothing like the rights that investors have to compel governments to change their rules. and that at the end of the day is what is wrong with the tpp. it creates rights for companies and investors but he doesn't create new rights for workers or civil society. it basically gives corporations more rights than people. amy: some are saying even if you can't negotiate these things after the tpp, you can use the tpp to change things. some op

so i became the first reporter from a texas newspaper to go to vietnam. >> when the action did begin, was a veteran. i had in their for years and i was ready to roll. as a war correspondent. >> i was there because i wanted to be involved with the biggest american story of my generation. >> because i learned essentially how to control my fear.

achieved. >> we can achieved peace with honor. >> the americans are leaving. >> the vietnamese must stay and face uncertainty. >> vietnam, we have reached the end of the tunnel and there is no light there. ♪ ♪