the nightmare. and i have not had one bad dream about vietnam. the other night i had a bad dream about the north koreans dropping the statue of liberty on me. that was weird. [ laughter ] but generally, my dreams are of -- not quite so substantial as that. so i -- i'm lucky. but i haven't -- i'm incredibly sympathetic to people with problems. my own colleagues and certainly veterans, because from my class in high school. i had -- and in my career, i've just met so many people who have been in wars, up to and including the recent conflict. but i don't have a good answer for why i didn't suffer from the ill-effects. >> one of the things i think about, there was so much controversy back home about the war. and a lot of opposition for the war and support for the war and as a photographer did that come into your mind in terms of the pictures of how that may sway either side in terms of how that person might view the war? >> well, when i went to vietnam, it is maybe kind of hard to figure, because i was covering anti-lbj demonstrations. i remember when

it's the woodstock generation coming to vietnam. >> the public campaign against the war in vietnam tookin washington today. men who have been there began demonstrations armed with speeding the end to the conflict. ♪ bring them home 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. >> the 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, cent

views of the vietnam war. >> please welcome mr. tommy hoden, chairman and ceo of -- mag rabbit. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the power of a picture presentation. we are going to meet two renowned photographers whose pictures change public sentiment toward the vietnam war. it is an honor for me to be here today. my name is tommy hodinh. i was born and raised near dhang ang from vietnam. i moved to u.s. for college when i was 18. when i was about 14 years old, i remember the marine landing on da nang beach. the marine were very generous to everybody. giving candy to children and inspiring hope for the future. they were truly the statement of freedom and democracy. there are many tragic images from the war and from my home town. but they were also some good memories and events which should not be overshadowed by the destruction of the war. today i live in austin with two sons born here and my wife tanya. i'm lucky i am a chairman of mag rabbit inc., a global software company founded 25

but wallace was not affected by the vietnam issue. oing 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. see ya! when you're living with diabetes. steady is exciting. oh this is living baby! only glucerna has carbsteady, to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and try new glucerna hunger smart to help you feel full. okay! fun's over. milk! milk! milk! milk! milk! aw. aw. ♪ thirsty? my friend said i had to earn my way to the cool table. oh, sweet jamie. you got to stick up for yourself, like with the name your price tool. people tell us their budget, not the other way around. so i

the first coast guard combat death since vietnam. or, respect and devotion to duty, the most unique branch of our armed forces. for those who serve and continue to serve in the united states coast guard, their motto always ready, is as appropriate today as it ever was. theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. i'm oliver north. good night. >> i'm bob massi. for 32 years, i've been practicing law and living in las vegas. i help people with all sorts of real-estate problems, from trying to save their homes to closing major deals. eight years ago, 6,000 people a month moved here, looking for employment and affordable homes. little did anyone know that we would become ground zero for the american real-estate crisis. now, it's a different story. the american dream is back. we're gonna meet real people who faced the same problems as millions across america, and we'll dive deep into a city on the rebound because las vegas was a microcosm of america, and now vegas is back. [ woman vocalizing ]

and the leadership of the antiwar movement was vietnam veterans, the ones i met, including senator and secretary john kerry. - john kerry - yeah, an old friend of mine. and so things come around and you know, i think among the vietnam veterans today, there's some that hate me and don't like the echo of the peace movement, but if you get them in their own chair and you're just talking to them, overwhelmingly they feel like the peace movement did, that they were lied to or misled or manipulated and great harm was done to the country, great harm was done to their families. so, it's a question of how you get that out and how you process it. - when you say that 80% of the country are some statistic believes the vietnam war was a mistake and that's too simple, we have time for it to be more complicated than that. explain to me the more complicated version of that. so, if the concept of a mistake is too facile, what's the harder tell on it? - [tom] well, what they do, the pollsters do, they test opinion and then they choose the word, and they say, "was it a mistake or not?" and if you think,

the first coast guard combat death since vietnam. , respect and devotion to duty, the most unique branch of our armed forces. for those who serve and continue to serve in the united states coast guard, their motto always ready, is as appropriate today as it ever was. theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. i'm oliver north. good night. >>> house republicans tonight call for another fbi investigation into hillary clinton e-mail scandal, and this time, they want to know whether hillary clinton lied under oath when she testified she did not send or receive classified e-mails or her private server. one stopped to learn the fbi did not take into consideration hillary clinton speaking to congress when she talk about her handling of e-mails. >> did

. >> hardly a day goes by without a new report of another demonstration or protest against the vietnamar. >> there is, in the land, a certain restlessness.

on the international scene, farmers blast north vietnam targets on the other side of the world.t was characteristics of his capacity to absorb many detailed facts that as he received reports on the results of the air strikes, he also wanted to know how many hospital beds would be available in mississippi for medicare patients. but in spite of the issues facing him, there would be time during those first few days of summer to involve himself with the work of his ranch and to take enjoyment from the land. ♪ narrator: in july, it was a relaxed and suntanned lynn johnsonhnson -- baines who reported to the nation during his 66th news conference. he prefaced his press conference with a barbecue on the front lawn of the lbj ranch. ♪ narrator: his opening remarks emphasize the other war in vietnam the attack on literacy, , poverty and disease. this would be part of a theme that the president would hammer home to the people throughout the summer in an exhaustive effort to make sure every american knows exactly what his government is trying to do in vietnam. earlier in the year, the presi

the whole world. i swear. >> we fought vietnam. >> that was the vietnam war. >> oh. vietnam war. right. fought -- we fought -- world war ii? would have been -- wasn't it like -- china? >> no. >> who did america fight in world war ii? >> the axis of powers. >> the nazis. >> and japan. >> high five. >> germany and japan. >> who bombed us in pearl harbor? >> that's a question. >> yes. >> china? >> china? >> i don't know. >> close. >> korea, right? >> no. not korea. >> not korea. >> no? >> russia? >> not russia. >> wow. >> was it the koreans? am i gets close? >> i'm sorry but all questions must be submitted in writing. >> who bombed us in pearl harbor? >> japanese. >> very good. >> japan. >> very, very good. ♪ >> who did america fight in the vietnam war? >> was it south korea? >> north korea? >> north yea? >> korea? >> where did you come up with that? >> i have no idea. >> france. >> is it france? >> oh. >> you're laughing at me. it is embarrassing. >> who did america fight in the vietnam war? >> vietnam. >> who did we fight in the vietnam war? >> nam until. >> vietcong. we still didn't win.

we have a couple artifacts here, , the ballot of5 the green berets and letters from vietnam. hnny cash's shirt that really -- when you look at these two artists, gets easy to look back 40 or 50 years later and think that everyone was against the annan. -- the vietnam war. there were some surprises we forget about my the ballot of the green berets. >> ♪ men who fight by night and day courage from the green berets ♪ >> there was a lot of times throughout history we see it is not just what we remember, not just what is elevated in pop culture. vietnam is a story that is very clear that we know that rock played a role. when you really dig deep there are surprises in there and some alternative perspectives and some stories that sometimes get lost. you also have examples of artists like neil young criticizing some political views and songs. ♪ >> lynyrd skynyrd responding with "i hope neil young will remember." >> ♪ i southern man don't need him around anyhow ♪ >> you have these times when it doesn't just happen in society, but you have the debate having -- happening with the songs a

in addition, the president mentions the vietnam war and says peace with honor. esident nixon won the 1972 general election in a landslide over democratic nominee george mcgovern carrying 49 states,. this speech is over 40 minutes, and our coverage is from nbc news. >> the president of the united states. [applause] mr. nixon: mr. chairman, delegates of this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place , i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] as well aselp millions of americans, we won a great victory that day. [applause] i again proudly accept your nomination as president of the united states. [applause] let us get ourselves an even greater victory this november. [applause] i congratulate chairman ford and armstrong and hundreds of others who have laid the foundation by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and peace in the world. [applause] speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep gratitude with attributes you have paid

even in the military, i was responsible with a group of people to get the vietnam memorial built in downtown manhattan. which, to this day, people thank me for. i've raised millions of dollars for the vets.

the white house today, president obama awarded the medal of honor to a hero chopper pilot from the vietnam war. retired army lieutenant colonel charles kettles is credited with saving the lives of 44 u.s. troops during a 1967 ambush, including eight soldiers that couldn't reach the

the guerilla war in south vietnam was inspired by hanoi. it was organized in hanoi. d it is today being supplied from hanoi. if the american people need any reminder of the kind of enemy we face, the kind of enemy that sticks his head over south southks to take over vietnam, they can be reports this morning in your morning papers, they can hear it on your radio, and the attack on yesterday, the united states navy hospital in danaag. at least three of our men who patients in that hospital were injured. and that is the typical of the way the communists fight. because they cannot hope to win on the battlefield, they rely on terror and on attacks against the wounded and the innocent. there are people who denounce airstrikes against oil depots in north vietnam, in my own country. but they remain strangely silent when the communists in the south turn their mortars on an american hospital or blow a bus -- blowup a bus load of farmers or murder the mayor of a vietnamese town. i just wish they would ask themselves if their standard of judgment is really fair. ♪ narrator: fort

>> vietnam. >> reporter: who did we fight in the vietnam war? vietnam. >> north vietnam, and we still didn't win. >> no. >> reporter: who won the cold war? >> i'm not the best historian here, but -- >> reporter: you don't say. >> the russians won. >> no one. didn't we agree to disagree. >> america and russia came out together after world war ii, kind of friends. frenemy. >> reporter: frenemy? >> say one more hip center thing, and i'm going to shove you in your case. >> reporter: who won the cold war? >> i don't know. >> was it the french? i'm blaming everything on the french. >> spain? >> japan? >> america. we're always in the wars. it's weird. >> france, they always bring us into it. i don't know why. >> you mean switzerland? >> yes. >> sorry. >> reporter: who won the cold war? >> russia. >> france? >> united states? >> reporter: who did the united states fight in the cold war? >> the french. >> reporter: if we caught the french, it would have been a little bit easier. >> russia. >> reporter: do you know who fought in the cold war? >> the sovie

in addition, the president promises to end the vietnam war and achieve quote peace with honor,". he won the 1972 election in a landslide, gearing 49 states. this speech is just over 40 minutes, at our coverages from nbc news. [cheers and applause] >> the president of the united states. [cheers and applause] pres. nixon: mr. chairman, delegates to this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago, standing in this very place, i proudly accepted your nomination for president of the united states. with your help and with the votes of millions of americans, we won a great victory in 1968. tonight, i again proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. [applause] let us pledge ourselves to win an even greater victory this november, in 1972. i congratulate chairman ford. i congratulate chairman dole, anne armstrong and the hundreds of others who have laid the foundation for that victory by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and for peace in the world. speaking in a very personal sense, i express my deep

in addition, the president mentions the vietnam war and says peace with honor. ent nixon won the 1972 general election in a landslide over democratic nominee george mcgove c

the street. they start stopping cars, talking about vietnam. they eventually race down water street and throw rocks and other things through windows of shops. the mayor about this time declare the bars have to be closed. so, now you have all these kids coming out of the bars, they've been drinking, a lot of them were there to watch bands. on college campuses, headliners go on around milt after the close the bar, and a lot were there to see this man perform. one of the most prolific scorers in nba history, in two senses of scoring. wilt chamberlain and game four of the nba title series, and this is may 4, the nba title series, not the quarterfinals. the wilt chamberlain, jerry west. willis reed. et cetera, et cetera, a great game. this game starts on the west coast at midnight. five minutes after it starts kids head out of the bars because the bars are closed and they're on the street so ugliness ensues. the other problem is the city of kent has been prepped by the times and the fbi to assume the worst of any demonstration. one reason they had be

in addition, the president promises to end the vietnam war and peace with honor. president nixon was a 1972 general election in a landslide over democratic nominee george .cgovern the speech is just over 40 minutes. it is from nbc news. >> the president of the united states. [applause] mr. chairman, delegates for this convention, my fellow americans, four years ago staying in this very place, i probably expected that the denomination. accepted the nomination for the united states. [applause] we want a great victory in 1968. [applause] tonight, i again probably except ofr nomination for president the united states. [applause] let us take ourselves and when a greater victory this november. victory thister november. [applause] i congratulate the chairman. others who have laid the foundation for that victory by their work at this great convention. our platform is a dynamic program for progress for america and for peace in the world. [applause] speaking in a very personal sense, i stress might be gratitude of this convention for the tribute paid to the best campaigner i

"i am product of the vietnam era. i remember presidents trying to wage wars that were very unpopular and the nation split." he then, sitting there, and he points to a portrait of abraham lincoln that hung in the oval office. he said, "he is on the wall because the job of the president is to unite the nation. that's the job of the president." president obama on lincoln, a month after obama's inaugural, he just said -- he said, "lincoln made my own story possible." and that's exactly true. i remember interviewing president obama about the afghan war for a book i did called "obama's wars" in 2010 about the decisions obama made. and in a case like this -- i had sent him a 15-page memo saying this is what i would like to ask about obama. because every president now lives in an environment where there are two questions. there are the press conferences, the shouted questions and there is a kind of gotcha environment. so when you send a long memo saying i've worked for a year on this and i would really like to talk to you and

the vietcong and north vietnam. portrayed in the u.s. media, especially by cbs's walter cronkite, one would think -- i think if you polled americans today who even remember what tet meant, they would think it was a major military defeat. but it wasn't, it was a major american and south vietnam military victory, but you wouldn't know that by having watched american television. shortly thereafter, the "uss pueblo" was hijacked. an intelligence ship in international waters was hijacked by north korea. you have two things going on at the same time -- the war in vietnam and suddenly north korea makes an appearance again. the american crew was imprisoned and tortured. president johnson seemed paralyzed with indecision and there was no public response. i'd now like you to listen -- but i need to tell you one things in terms of history. one of the major changes john kennedy did in terms of overall military strategy compared to dwight eisenhower, dwight eisenhower's philosophy was massive retaliation. if we have many, many nu

. >> one of those flags dates back to the vietnam war, and is truly irreplaceable. jersey shore bureau reporter ted greenberg has the family's emotional plea to get it back. . >> reporter: now it's gone. tom corcoran said his heart sank when he found out someone stole a military issued american flag just like this in memory of his brother. >> it's really the only thing that we have left since his body was never recovered. >> reporter: the family received the flag after navy seaman patrick corcoran was killed in the vietnam war in 1969. for the last decade, it's flown once a year next door to their summer home on a sturdy flagpole outside a knneighbor's house. this is a smaller one. but on july 4th morning, that neighbor, tom shaffer, himself an army veteran, discovered those irreplaceable stars and stripes were gone. >> my wife cried her eyes out, when we had to tell them. it was brutal. >> reporter: usually the flag is raised on memorial day. but because of rain this year, the corcorans waited to fly it until independence day weekend. >> in reality, it's just shocki

the vietnam war was raging, the year it suffered its highest number of fatalities during that war, 16,899lone, more dead american soldiers in vietnam, in that one year than the total number we have lost in 15 years in afghanistan and iraq and donald trump had nothing but easy decisions to make. because vietnam was not in his life plans. donald trump avoided the draft and didn't ever consider enlisting secretary of state served two tours of duty in vie net unanimous in 1968 having volunteered for the navy when he graduated from college. his children have followed their father's model and never considered military service. they, too, have made nothing but easy decisions in their lives after being born rich. they made the easy decision to go to work for their father, not to compete for real job in the real world but to simply take that inherited places in trump world. he once told howard stern that being a single man in the 1960s and 70s in new york city and trying to avoid sexual transmitted diseases was his own personal vietnam. the trump family's first very first interest in the military

all these issues cave with to the for the vietnam war in the women's movement and especially the vietnam war because it was the first one that came into your living room so i was part of the anti-war movement we used to take the kids and march in these parades and i became a real best and win the elections for the county supervisor opened in california which is a beautiful place north of san francisco these issues were all of the issues they're all local and also women's rights so they said will you run? and i said do it. they say it pays $11,000 the year widened you do it? so i ran. >> it was so crazy i came out on top the other two were republicans but you did run as a democrat or republican so before we had the though and i can vote on top, it was the incumbent and myself in the issue they tried to use the anti-choice issue this candidate's name was bill i was kind of excited because my campaign was going strong i said come over he says i am giving this a lot of thought he said my wife is the position it is hard for her and this is what i want to say. you should drop out. i said why w

if they refuse to negotiate, to make them pay a high price for their warfare in the south on south vietnamnd on or men. [applause] awarding a beautification, the president concluded his world wind tour of the three simple states. the united states was born in strife and it was nurtured in hardship. we grew and we prospered because we weren't afraid of frontiers. but we always looked towards those far away horizons. and we have not come this long distance in history because we ere very weak or frightened or a fearful or a timid people. when america loses its commitment to freedom, that is the day that america will begin to die. and the safeties that i have seen and the states that i have visited today have told me that his will never be. >> four days later, the president congratulated two american who is were living examples of this philosophy, men who were not afraid of frontiers and who in pursuit of their every day occupation looked toward far away horizons on a daily basis. colonel robert l. stevens and walter f. daniel claimed new world speed and altitude record for the united states a

vietnam. it is difficult to believe that the story of the united states in vietnam would have followed the same had not gone to dallas in 1963. do we know what kennedy would have done if he had lived? there's all sorts of evidence to suggest that he never would have done what lyndon johnson did in vietnam. >> this nation will keep its commitments from south vietnam to west berlin. >> though lbj had experienced the same crises by sitting next to kennedy, he had not come out with the same conclusions. he did not share kennedy's suspicion of the united states military or military advice. once kennedy was gone, it was inevitable that u.s. foreign policy would change. we lost a president that was skeptical of military advice and gained one who usually took it. >> the official russian announcement said he resigned. crowds that one cheered khrushchev wildly were left in the dark as to what went on when the central committee named leonid brezhnev as the new leader of the party. >> my father was shocked. his successor just went in the opposite direction, then divorce all his policies. he was very upset.

and all of these issues came to the floor around the time of the vietnam war the environment movement but especially then because that was the first quarter were you sat ederle the year and could see it. i was part of the anti-war movement recent take the kids to the marches and i became a real activist and when a seat opened up for the county supervisor a beautiful place north of san francisco the issues what could we do locally? and women's rights. everybody asked him. and i said why did you do it? he said it paid $11,000 a year why don't you do it? so why did. it was so crazy i came on top. of either two were republicans but you didn't run as a democrat or republican so before we had the vote the incumbent and myself in that position was running they tried to use the anti-a choice issue so this candidate his name was bill is a valid to speak to my was excited because i said come over. he looks at at me and says i have given this a lot of thought i that he was going to say he was endorsing the but my wife is a physician is hard for her so this is what i want to say to you right now.

"we've spent 150 billion on the vietnam war alone." he began his campaign polling at only one or two percent across the country. he had zero political operation and it seemed like almost the entire democratic establishment was against him. "it's a wage price formula ..." but come july, 1972, mcgovern's grassroots campaign had buried the competition "mcgovern. democrat." and all facets of the democratic party were convening in miami. "good evening. the democratic convention meets tonight in hopes of choosing the man to replace richard nixon in the white house, next january. by the last count, five names to be put before the convention." those five names did not make much of a dent to mcgovern's 1757 delegates but that didn't stop those on the left or the right from organizing resistance to the mcgovern camp. a group of southern governors, fueled by opposition to mcgovern's anti-war stance and led jimmy carter then governor of georgia, united with labor leaders to mount a challenge termed 'anyone but mcgovern.' "george meany and many of o

the world. we shall begin with vietnam. ll hope in this room that there is a chance the current negotiations may bring an honorable and to the war -- end to the war. thisll say nothing in campaign that may destroy that chance, but if the war is not ended when the people choose in november, the choice will be clear. here it is. for four years, this administration has had at its disposal the greatest advantage any nation has had over another in history. for four years, america's fighting men have set a record for courage and sacrifice unsurpassed in our history. , never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively. if after all of this time and after only sacrifice and all of the support there is still no end in sight, i say the time has come for the american people to turn to new leadership not tied to the mistakes and policies of the past. that is what we offer you, america. [applause] i pledge to you tonight that the first priority, or a of our next administration, will to be bring an ho

no one knows what the situation in vietnam will be when the next president of the united states takesoath of office on january 20, 1969. but every heart in america prays that, by then, we shall have reached a cease-fire in all vietnam, and be in serious negotiation towards a durable peace. [applause] hubert humphrey: meanwhile, as a citizen, a candidate, and vice president, i pledge to you and to my fellow americans, that i shall do everything within my the limits of my capacity and my ability to aid the negotiations and to bring a prompt end to this war. [applause] ♪ may i remindey: you of the words of a prop het? yes. kennedy,ords of john to me and to you and to prosperity -- posterity. [applause] last week, wey: witnessed once again in czechoslovakia the desperate attempt of tyranny to crush out the forces of liberalism by force and brutal power -- to hold back change. but in eastern europe, as elsewhere, the old era will surely end and, there, as here, a new day will dawn. [applause] and to speedey: this day, we must go far beyond where we've been, beyond containment to communicat

the vietnam veteran hosts the welcome home show. >> like vietnam veterans they never got the welcome it's a sounding place for veterans of all wars. >> i don't think we do a good job in this country of taking care of our veterans, it was sparked by his own feelings of mistreatment when he went to court to fight a traffic citation. >> i was angry and my wife said do something about it or forget it. >> he decided to do something, his first battle was over beach badges. >> why do veteran goes to foreign countries and fight for our freedom and have to buy a beach badge when they come back to new jersey. >> so he lobbied for a bill from governor chris christie, allowing beach access to veterans. >> it's all about veteran know they have not been forgotten about. and now on a mission to help young vets returning from iraq and afghanistan. >> one thing that veterans don't know is that there is a lot of benefits available. nobody looks and said what is coming to me. joe tells them. >> shines a light on the needs of vets from health care to the spotlight on suicide with 2200 a day taking their

he saved the lives of 40 soldiers, 4 of his own flight crew in vietnam. e ceremony is getting under way right now. let's listen in. >> for those who face the perils of terror and danger as they serve their brothers and sisters, lord bless this ceremony. the acts we honest. that they may strengthen the values that we hold dear in this nation in our military and our families and our way of life. and we ask all this in your holy name amen. >> good morning, everybody. please have a seat. welcome to the white house. of all the privileges of this office, none is greater than serving as the commander in chief of the finest military that the world has ever known. and of all the military declarati declarations that our nation can bestow, we have none higher than the medal of honor. as many who know him said, nobody deserves it more than charles kettle of yipsilanti, michigan. many believe that, other than chuck. as he says, this seems like a hell of a fuss over something that happened 50 years ago. [ audience laughs lightly ] even now, chuck defined by the humility

artists,look at these it is easy to look back 50 years later and think everyone was against the vietname are often surprises that we forgot about like the ballad of the green berets. day,five by night and courage from the green berets ♪ >> there are a lot of times in history where we see it is not just what we remember, vietnam is a story where it is clear that we know rock played a role there. when you dig deep, there are surprises there and alternative perspectives and stories that sometimes get lost. we also have examples of artists like neil young criticizing political views. ♪ ♪ southern change responding with, i hope neil young will remember. sweet home alabama ♪ >> you have the debate actually happening with the songs and singles that people release. compare that to what is happening now, that provides a new perspective and new way of moving forward. from --ve artifacts that he wore when he testified in front of the u.s. senate. you say your song, under the blade, is about surgery. have you ever had surgery with your hands tied and legs strapped? >> the song was written by my gui

the draft and didn't ever consider enlisting. secretary of state john kerry served two tours of duty in vietnam in 1968, having volunteered for theen he graduated from college. but that's just not something that trumps do. donald trump's children have followed their father's model and never considered military service. they, too, have made nothing but easy decisions in their lives after being born rich. they made the easy decision to go to work for their father, not to compete for a real job in the real world but to simply take their inherited places in trump world. it's not that donald trump never thought about vietnam. he once told howard stern being a single man in the 1960s and vying to avoid sexually transmitted diseases was his own personal vietnam. that's what he told him. it was -- >> we will take care of our great veterans like they have never been taken care of before. >> joining us now, general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander. some people protested the vietnam war. didn't do what's relevant. he avoided the service, had other things going on in his life and life went on without him. and as you say, he

army while serving as a flight commander during the vietnam war. this is 25 minutes. [inaudible] ♪ mocha mocha >> ladies and gentlemen, the president president of the united states along with lieutenant general kettles. ♪ ♪ mocha ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> let us pray. lord, god, source of all that is good and just, be with us now and help us begin the ceremony in gratitude. for this opportunity to recognize and honor your gifts of courage and selfless service. witness to us in these heroic acts of lieutenant colonel charles cattle, that his that his courage remind us today and tomorrow the great human dignity that thus is an indomitable spirit to serve them for tech to those most in need. we asked now that lieutenant kettles action we honor and provide hope and inspiration for those who face the perils of terror and danger as they serve their brothers and sisters. lord bless the ceremony, the acts we honor. that that they may strengthen the values that we hold dear in this nation, and our military and families, and our way of life. we ask all of this in your holy name, amen. >> amen.

a few years ago, he survived cancer then back in 1967, during the vietnam war, he was aboard the uss forestall part of the crew that put out a huge five that killed 143 his doctors at georgia washington university hospital say it's an honor to have helped him spend another july 4th with his family. >> it's incredibly is symbolic on this day, the day we're recognizing our vets and we're recognizing this country's independence to be able to have a great outcome for someone who's done so much for this country and his children, who have been involved in the armed forces to actually do something for them in are you sure is incredibly meaningful. >> i'm a lucky guy. >> reporter: he also wants to thank act complete stranger who he says jumped into the middle of a crowded intersection to block traffic so joe's ambulance to get through. joe is expected to be released from this hospital tomorrow. at georgia washington university hospital. fox 5 local news. >>> >>> still present a of problems with the anacostia river. despite recent improvements. that the river received on its annual report car

the white house. we are also honored to be joined by chuck's brothers in arms from vietnam. and some of chuck's newest comrades, members of the medal of honor society. may 15 1967, started as a hot monday morning. soldiers from the hundred and first airborne were battling hundreds of heavily armed north vietnamese in a rural riverbed. our men were outnumbered. they needed support fast. helicopters to get the wounded out and bring more soldiers into the fight. kettles was a kilo pilot and as he volunteered for active-duty on this morning he volunteered his two weeks even though he the danger. they called this place trump valley for a reason. above the riverbed rows of 1500 foot tall hill and the enemy was dug in toan extensive series of tunnels and bunkers . the ideal spot for an ambush. but chuck jumped into the chop cockpit and took off. around 9 am this company approached the landing zone and looked down. they should have seen a stand of greentrees . instead they saw a solid wall of green enemy tracers coming right at them. none of them had ever seen fire that intense. sold

especially the vietnam. is the northwestern corner of the national mall where scott stump is spearheading the effort to build the national desert storm veterans war memorial. within steps of the vietnam veterans memorial and in the shadow of lincoln's memorial. >> it would be something that people would be able to see the history of our country kind of chronologically even. >> after six years of work, stump and the memorial association have congressional and presidential approval to build. early renderings, there is a massive curved wall made of kuwaiti stone. recalling the sands of the desert. it surrounds visitors with the images from the gulf war and the names of those who died. >> it's a left hook design. shows the military maneuver up into iraq and enveloped kuwait to liberate them. >> right now, the memorial association is ramping up its fundraising efforts. >> stump believes it will cost $25 million or more to build the memorial. his group has raised only a fraction of that so far. >> we have an aggre

donald trump thought about it only to the extent we know as to how to avoid military service during the vietnam war. and so that irony was never connected between the candidate they were talking about and the military service they were honoring. >> steve smith, on the pence exposure issue, let's call it, you do have -- you have a nominee here who kind of waves and and already did in the "60 minutes" interview stuff like that with the back of his hand. >> at the end of the day people vote for the ticket, not for the vice presidential candidate. the issue that mike pence has that's a real legitimate issue and is going to play out as we move into the vice presidential debate is his position with regard to women in the military, women in combat roles. anybody with even a basic level understanding of how the united states military functions understands that the military would be crippled without its women service members across the board, all branches of service. i think it also bears mentioning that on the morning of 9/11, u.s. naval aircraft took to the skies intending to intercept what they thoug

he makes reference to the vietnam war and and being treated as a second-class citizen. he says you give me second-class housing, second-class food, and whenever i try to do something, all i get back is the mean old backlash which is a reference to slavery and being lashed, being whipped. and at the end of the poem, he says that the world is full of folks like me who are black, yellow, beige and brown and that it's big and that the population of the world is changing. that was the first time she met lacy hughes and she took the poem, and they made it into a song, and it's one of the most famous renditions of the song was on her album. and at that time, when he died, when lacy hughes died, she put in the song, when lacy hughes died, and she talked about how he encouraged her to be the best artist she could be. so, from then on she would

a father judge high school graduate who died in the vietnam war. vy never found his body so this flag that draped his empty coffin was the last closest thing the corcoran family has of him. to get it back, is overwhelming. >> thank you for expressing this to us, the support made -- the support just made this so much easier for to us handle. the thousand thank yous is too few. and a million is not enough. this community, this country, we still remember patrick corcoran and all of those who perished in vietnam and i couldn't be more pleased as the mayor of the city of north wildwood that that flag is back in its rightful place. >> beautiful thing. the corcoran family says they will continue to honor patrick corcoran and fly his flag once a year despite what happened this past fourth of july. >>> tonight we're getting a preview of the guns and roses not in this lifetime tour as massive stage is put in place the concert will be in town tomorrow at the linc. the tour is one of the most anticipated events this summer. >> man, i used to play guns and roses

why is it a simple vocation to blame containment or the cold war for vietnam? part, throught different concepts we have been grandg about including strategy and some of the discussion has led me to look favorably on the belief of the analytic philosophers who arguelly think that to about many of these questions is -- that include so much semantic definitional work is pointless. we are talking across purposes and we can each use the term grand strategy in slightly different ways and look well or critically on it depending on some other point that we want to make. does it start to lose meaning? i wonder about whether this weekend we are using grand strategy in too many different ways that allow us to talk in some respects across purposes. kennan, is the problem grand strategy? is the problem realism? what is interesting about obama, though not the subject of my paper, is that these things are at play. is the problem hyper realism? is the problem grand strategy or lack thereof? all that i need to do here is to suggest some of the neat equations that we are used to

the domino theory of southeast asia during the vietnam war, it was the predicate for the whole thing. what was wrong? nobody admitted it. it was always repeated. as a result, incredible loss of life and treasure and a wasted part of the decade had tore this country apart and did a lot of damage in vietnam. one wonders about what might have been if that thought had been subject to a lot more scrutiny and challenged. >> have you read a bio on every american president? >> i don't know if i read one about martin van buren or not, but most of them, probably at probably at this point most of them. >> are they helpful? >> yes, i think they are, to study not only the history and how it happened and what they did, but in some ways the internal life of these figures and what they went through. what's very striking to me is most of the occupants of the white house, historically, who spent their whole lives hungering and thirsting for this find themselves pretty unsatisfied when they reach it. often they leave the white house disappointed, disillusioned or broken. very few of them leave, historic

years ago and army pilot helicopter pilot thought he was doing his job and his act of courage and the vietnam war earning him the nation's highest military honor. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2, 5:52 am. >>> now facing a possible desert -- a possible death sentence in turkey for overthrowing -- trying to overthrow the government.>>> so far the turkish government has detained more than 6000 people believed to have been tied to the coup attack, and including three turkish top generals.>> at every level of government the period of cleaning the virus will continue because this hottie before metastasis like the cancer virus that spreads all around the government. >> the turkish government is removing the abandoned military tanks from the city streets, and the military rebel soldiers it used the tanks in the uprising. >>> a fire in downtown san jose apartment tower, starting at the start vintage tower on santa clara street across from city hall just before 4:30 am yesterday. they managed to get everyone outside the but the building is heavily damaged by the water that was used to put out the fir

bloomenthal. >> guest: when i was a young income for jacob chavits, whose later seat i sought, i hated the vietnam war and organized a group of interns to distribute a petition to johnson that we -- this was the phrase. the best and brightest are trying to do good in washington but can't with you over us. someone in our group was a pro-war person and went to the "washington post" to disclose what we were doing in capitol hill and richard bloomenthal wrote the article and the house abolished the scholarship and now he is the senior senator from connecticut. >> c-span: what do you remember having two americans, steven brier, a democrat, and charles freed, a republican. >> guest: i was a student when freed was a young professor. he was very articulate. when you are in law school you stand up and describe methods that scare you and let everyone else be scared and learn. he went on to be reagan's solicitor general and was hostile to the way the supreme court has turned hard right on war powers. david went on to be the famous litigator in america and steve went on of course to the court. they are both s

died in the rampage. >>> he helped rescue dozens of american soldiers from certain death during the vietnamar. today at the would you also, lieutenant colonel charles kettle received the nation's highest honor, president obama present him with the medal of honor. he returned to a landing zone under heavy fire and credited with saving 40 soldiers and four members of his unit. >> three, two, one, main engines up and running liftoff of the falcon 9 to the space station. >> and with that space x launched that unmanned falcon rocket early this morning in florida. it's carrying a docking port to the international space station. nasa needs that set up in order to send american astronauts to the station in crew capsules. it's carrying 35,000 pounds of supplies and dna genetic decoder for research in space. >>> something in your kitchen cabinet could help boost your memory. i forget when it what it is. no i know what it is. we have a look at the summer lineup at the dell. >> improve the autopilot system in the company's cars. the automaker has been working on changes to the system ever since the dea