next, from the lyndon johnson a 1968 tial library, documentary produced by the office of economic opportunity. mexican-american, a new hope effortsrtunity, depicts to assist spanish speaking americans as part of the war on poverty. office of economic opportunity was established in in 1981.abolished many of the programs continue to the present day in other federal agencies. agencies. just new many little boys like juan. juan is a mexican-american. emphasized e i american. hen i became president, increated the mexican affairs committee in 1967. that committee is made up of a-list members of my cabinet. the highest level committee that i could name. speaking e spanish people need to get closer to their government and get action from their government. we're bringing the government so to speak from the people ather than always having the people come to the government. i have always felt this is the better way. we're here for solutions and not report once a sad again of the many, many problems. to talk about the tunities and not just difficulties. his mexican-american finds himself in an unemployme

tial. after the data conversion this week i want them to find what is the problems because [inaudible]. >> so let me -- this might be the issue that commissioner mar is also dealing with is that initially pam was involved in this so maybe now we have taurus back and i'm assuming taurus is part of the process of doing this as well. i think -- i mean, as we've lost somebody, it really become key that we have a team working forward that addresses all these different issues that may be a compilation of all the different departments. i think it would be good and would be helpful in this time period to make sure that everybody's on board. we're so late in the game and to have somebody key stepping off, understandably, that's not the issue, but we need to make sure that all the bases are covered in this next part here. >> yes. next two or three weeks -- most important in our department is customer service for the [inaudible] and the chash sheer. cashier. i don't want them to wait. i want to help t

ivan, a kurdish official warning of po ten tial genocide. what have you learned? >> well, i'm standing on the tarmac of a helicopter landing pad, and we accompanied a helicopter from the iraqi air force and several peshmerga fighters on board on a dangerous chaotic and, dare i said, heroic mission, to deliver aid to some of those people, those acyazidi who have been trapped on mt. sinjar for the better part of a week and to evacuate some from that mountain. we took off from here on this aging helicopter that was loaded down with baby diapers, with condensed milk, with food and water and, in some cases, even boxes of shoes to give people. and as we flew over the plain in the direction of mt. sinjar and went over the isis positions, the two machine gunners on the side of the aircraft began opening fire on suspected targets below. they told me every time they fly in and out on these missions, they take fire from down below. i saw them go through cartridges and cartridges. entire machine gun belts of ammuniti ammunition. they got over mt. sinjar. it's this incredible

but, before too hastily condemning the strategists of 1943-'44, it's tial to ask what they could haveone in lieu of invading sicily and then the italian mainland. there was not enough shipping to move roughly 1 million allied soldiers back to england or anywhere else. shiching is the narrow bottleneck through which all strategic decision-making must be made in world war ii. there's never enough. the three million americans who are gathering there, pouring into britain for the normandy operation. they could not take a few hundred thousand more americans. and, as churchill pointed out ad nauseam, the russians would have been very unhappy, had the allied force in the mediterranean remained idle after the summer of 1943. >>> well, let's give the last word to this guy. ernie pile. he's the most enduring of our combat correspondence. he's in the mediterranean the whole time. and he's heartsick the whole time. can you tell? pile wrote this. few of us can ever conjure up any truly fond memories of the campaign. i looked at it this way. if by having a small army in italy, we'd been able to bui