now, i am a combat veteran of vietnam. i was medevaced through valley forge army hospital and separated there. given the recent authors of from generals of the nva, they said that after tet we had them beat because we eliminated one-third of their army. now, they also said it was people like you that made the war go on because they said that they would win it in the street. and i've got to ask you as a combat veteran, don't you realize that you gave aid and comfort to the enemy in the sense that, you know, they knew they could win it with people like you in the street? you were not for the troops, you were for the poor vietnamese. now, you seem to be very liberal and as so seem to dismiss common sense and reasoning, and i'll say why. your analogy in the beginning was that poor black children do not know what a porch is. i come from west philadelphia. underprivileged, a lot poorer than a lot of blacks, as a matter of fact, and was drafted geographically before the lottery. now, there isn't a residence in west philadelphia o

i am a combat veteran of vietnam? i was med-evacked through valley forge army hospital and visited -- separated there. given the recent authors from generals of the nva they said after tet we had them beat because we eye him nateed a third of their army. they said it was people like you who made the war go on because they said they would win in the street, and i got ask you as a combat veteran, don't you realize you gave aid and confident to -- comfort to the enemy in the sense they knew they could win it with people like you in the street and you were not for the troop. you were the for the poor vietnamese and you seem to dismisses common sense and reasoning and i will say. why your analogy in the beginning was that poor black children do not know what a poach is. i come from west philadelphia, underprivileged a lot poorer than a lot of blacks and was drafted before the lottery. now, there isn't a residence in west philadelphia and all philadelphia and baltimore and in the northeast corridor through boston that doesn

ambassador to vietnam recently held that the socialist republic of vietnam need not be put back onto the c.p.c. list because based on his views, vietnam has made sufficient improvements to its human rights policies to warrant ex clues -- exclusion. but recent developments show how wrong the ambassador is. not to mention vietnam's other numerous human rights violations. just days ago the vietnamese government arrested a prominent lawyer in vietnam for openly defending human rights. vietnam's arrest contradicts its own alleged commitments to internationally accepted criteria on human rights. today i call upon the members of this body to urge vietnam to release him immediately and unconditionlly as well as all prisoners in detention for peacefully expressing their views. his immediate release will be a significant step in affirming vietnam's intention to respect the rule of law. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you,

in one of the most thoughtful vietnam era accounts, general bruce palmer once observed, with respect to vietnam, our leaders should have known the american people would not standstill for a protracted war of indeterminate nature with no foreseeable end to the united states commitment. he further stated in the article, general palmer thereby distilled into a single sentence the lessons of vietnam to embark on an open-ended war was to forfeit public support, thereby courting disaster. the implications were clear. never again. i further read from the article, the dirty little secret to which few in washington will own up is that the united states now faces the prospects of perpetual conflict. we find ourselves in the midst of what the pentagon calls the long war a conflict global in scope, if largely concentrated in the greater middle east, and expected to outlast even general palmer's 25-year war. the present generation of civilians and officers have either forgotten or inverted the lessons of vietnam, embracing open-ended war as an inescapable reality. madam speaker, i ask unanimous c

or korean era to go back to vietnam or korea? >> i will say as a a caveat you are seeing more and more korean and vietnam vets go back. this is a trend we have seen accelerate in the last 10 years. that being said, there is no question that those who participated in the normandy invasion seem to be drawn there and have gone back in large numbers for decades now. this has been going on since the mid 1950's in various remembrances. and i think for so many of them this was the central event in their lives. it is an event that is remember remembered, i would argue, probably as much as any other in all of military history. it has become part of almost legend and lore by now. it is heavily celebrated and a good example is that you have the heads of state there today to celebrate the 65th anniversary. it is generally seen by the world as a key moment in world history. and i think the veterans, as the people who made the history happen, will be drawn to it that much more. beyond that, i think they are drawn to normandy and the beaches fo

vietnam is a beautiful place. and met with a woman who was this head of the delegation in budapest. we have an absolutely extraordinary afternoon with aft listening to her. tstening to her life story, and reuniting across the globe. >> fugitive days, a lot about you all so. is there a fugitive days in new? >> in a way, it is 2 arcing love stories. i am not writing a memoir. rseperiod? >> i am writing. in the sense, racecourse is a memoir. we have 2 sons who are writers. that will come with our approval. i am writing and talking but i am not going to write. >> host: do you ever wake up and think i used to be on the fbi's top-10 wanted list? >> i do. somebody gave me a book of the fbi's 10 most wanted from 1921, j. over -- j. edgar hoover invented it as a young man, the ictuent. everybody gets one page with their wanted picture and at the bottom, when they were captured. at the time that i was on the 10 most wanted list, angela davis, 2 young women, we had six of the ten most wanted, you go from bank robber to bank robber, then you have these students and young activists, then you go

representative from vietnam. >> mr. president, as a party to all multi national, the duty on non proliferation to a test ban city with the objective of non- proliferation considering it not only as an effective measure, but indispensable tool for the environment of the promotion of use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. it now is a strong advocate of the establishment of nuclear weapon free zone, and in that spirit we're strongly supporting the effort of the -- peninsula in the interest of peace, stability, throughout the region. vietnam's shares the concern about the nuclear tests conducted by the democratic garment of korea. we joined the city counc six vietnam has insisted on the -- and according to the resolution. the measure we adopted by the council must avoid affecting the normal level head of the people well humanitarian development, activities in a career. having voted for resolution 1874, i wish to emphasize that the resolution be affirmed council's commitment to a diplomatic and political solution for t

are we in vietnam? and that's the pentagon papers, which is sort of an interesting thing that the secretary of defense has to commission a study to find out why we're in the war. well, the pentagon papers got out. obama deciding not to release these torture photos, which was again i think not a great decision for free speech, those will get out. so i think that what we find is that government transparency is more important than anything else and that especial li given new technologies today, things will get out. so the government has an obligation to be more transparent. host: educated at brown university, liz has done several documentaries, including comba, ghosts of abu ghraib. she is up in new york where she's getting ready to premier "shouting fire," stories from the edge of free speech. tomorrow night, monday, 9:00. greens borrow, north carolina. sarah. good morning. caller: hello. host: hi there. caller: yes. long-time watcher, first-time caller. i have a brief comment and then just a couple of qu

he was injured during his second tour of duty in south vietnam. today i would like to say that i'm thankful for the service that sergeant valdez gave to his country. new mexico has always had a proud military history from the civil warle to the operations of enduring and iraqi freedom. new mexico's sons and daughters have always answered their nation's call. for those that serve during the vietnam war, we as a nation have been lax in our gratitude and appreciaon. as we remember the sergeant, let us not only honor his memory and sacrifices, but the price that was paid by all who served in vietnam. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. himes: the u.s. is facing a fiscal crisis which we must soon begin to address. this will not be easy, but there's two clear things we know we must do. first, we know we must fix the spiraling cost of our

these are the number of aircraft fighters -- you notice the vietnam war on the left side. then we built up -- i always tell you this, we bought more aircraft in those years than we are going to for the next 20 years. so you see on the bottom, on the right, 2003 to 2008, 20, f-22s a year verses the 400 aircraft we bought in the 70s. the pitt the average age. we were looking at 10 years, the average age, we kept it that way. the average age on the top has gone from 38 to the mid 80s down to 10 active wings. if the structure is half of what it was. the air force says we are striving to get between 15, and 20. another look at procurement of aircraft. on the top, we see the numbers of aircraft on the bottom half, it costs $1. billions of dollars on the bottom, the reagan administration, we spend between $6 billion, and $8 billion. how do you do this? the cost is on the bottom, almost the same amount of money that we had spent for 20 airplanes a year, we were buying 200 some just 20 years ago. >> is so much more capable. >> of course. >> there's a big argument about f-22s, which

[applause] he was also taking on the war in vietnam. so much so that his lifetime partner, his wife, carol, went back to school to get her graduate degree in linguistics so that she could be the breadwinner if noam was imprisoned, that is how she described it. to run on to be a professor at the harvard graduate school of education of what linguistics and also wrote to brown on the town of the language and position. they have known each other since i think he was three and they only lost carol a few months ago. his lifetime partnership with a great model for relationships appear to have his personal life also a model for all of us, what it means to live a life of integrity. on democracy now we have interviewed noam many times a year ago and i think about 2002 it was around midnight, it was may 20 and of. journalist and i were at a momentous time and after a quarter of a century of slaughter, a genocide the people of this were celebrating their freedom. those who have survived. the indonesian military had killed off a third of the populat

with the vietnam war called for a nationwide moratorium on october 15. the moratorium look to be on the big campuses with boycotting campuses and glasses were planned. some kids and my high school decided to join him. i thought they were wrong. i also thought there was something phony about the exercise simultaneously copycat. but they were tagging along with a national movement mimicking elders. i decided to put counter poachers -- posters anti-protests protest on the school wall i enlarged -- imagine myself a latter-day martin luther hanging up orthodoxy for all to see. i generated by posters by typing them out over and over on the black typewriter using carbon paper to produce four copies at a time. i had only 12 species, not withers 95 procter one night's work i gave my posters to the world on the 15th. all of my efforts on the more organized protest by helped to deflate that went in my weekends letter to my brother it made for a longer storey than usual and the next letter home he said he had enjoyed it but my father said why don't you send it to "n

there was the fall of vietnam. there was stagflation. there was an energy crisis. was gerald ford's good but bumbling intentions. there was jimmy carter's puniness. cubans were patrolling africa. africa? soviets were occupying afghanistan. it was an awful, awful time. and it ended with ronald reagan. i'm not saying every disaster ends with ronald reagan. [laughter] sometimes they just keep getting worse and worse. [laughter] >> but it's important for conservatives to remember that that we have been through very bad patches before and i hope that's one another thing that this book can remind people of. and the third movement of the book is a portrait of a relationship. a relationship between an older man and a younger man. i was a boy when it started. i was a youth. i guess that word doesn't exist anymore. but i would have been called a youth, then became a younger man. and in a lot of ways i think it was love at first sight on both our parts. but as often happens with love at first sight, mistakes are made. and as i realized, as i was writing this book, that bill w

a thousand people a day or being killed in vietnam.ttention to the real issues and you couldn't because of the manson thing. so i gave a speech saying, dig it, charles manson. and i meant it in the most ironic terms. how could i possibly support a mass murderer who was a racist and hated women and children. inconceivable so of course i never supported him but that one sentence gets repeated and tagged with me ad nauseam. >> host: next question from though audience. >> i'm from chicago and i appreciate the fact that the two of you appeared to have lived your values, and that's something that i think we all admire. whether we agree or don't. i'm a former educator, retired, union member. i appreciate that comment, your support of the unions. my question, you have stated some very valid values, goals for education, the fact is we have this umbrella of no child left behind. if you had the choice, ifoff had the power, what would you do? >> guest: i think i appreciate your bringing that up because when i answered the earlier questions about w

subtitle, the lessons our leaders didn't learn from the vietnam war. . here we are extending an eight-year commitment of our troops in afghanistan. what's going to happen three or four years from now if we are in the same situation and then we're talking about a 12, 14, 16-year commitment? look at what the russians did. they spent 10 years and billions of dollars and thousands of russians killed. look at alexander the great. he tried to conquer afghanistan. he failed. look at what the british did, and they couldn't make it. so all we are saying is, we are not talking about a pullout. we are saying have an end point to your war strategy that the marn people will understand and more -- american people will understand and more important, our military. they're tired. they're worn out. they'll keep going. they'll go back five, six, seven, eight times. but ask a military family down at camp lejeune. do you want to send your husband back or wife back for the sixth time to afghanistan? we are eight years behind the fight because we should have never gone inside

there was a case during the vietnam war called continuingor versus des moines in which kids wanted to wear arm brands in protest and the court upheld the students did not have to check their free speech rights at the door of the school. they had free speech rights in school as long as it does not disrupt the educational experience. >> short piece from the documentary as a student talked about being reprimanded for his religion. here is a look at that. >> most impactful moment of that whole day is when i went to talk with the advice-principal, he called me and sat me down, and he stared across the table and started talking to me and about halfway through the conversation he looked me in the eyes and said, if your face is offensive, you have to leave it in the car: i couldn't believe what i was hearing. if my face was offensive! are we in the united states? >> what can you add there? >> again, this was a kid who wanted to wear a t-shirt which he felt was expressing his religious views into the school. what the school did is he walked into the classroom and they immediately ejected him f

expertensed and the disillusionment was a common feeling month people my age as they returned from vietnam. i had a brother in the service, classmates in the service, cousin. they were so disillusioned they joined the antiwar movement in droves. so, john kerry denounced the war to the senate. threw his medal tennessee congress, said i don't want these, and then tried to live it down, and i think to his discredit when he ran for president. so you have this amazing developments of an antiwar movement, powered by vets, by the black movement, by young people, and comes 1968, lynn johnson son, for those who were young, the president, i don't we don't teach history -- at the end of march in 1968 he would not run for president and would work to end the war. we celebrated. we were june lent, and thousands of us gathered and had just a party all night long because we won. three years of war, a miserable washings illegal war, million deaths but we won. and then five days later, king is dead, and then kennedy is dead, and then not only is the war not going to end, it's going escalate, and here's the

as a vietnam veteran, let me say that the va is taking care of me. i don't like some, but they do the job -- i do not like them, but they do the job. look at the veterans at the hospitals with the colonoscopy checks -- that is horrible. these are the true heroes, and the care we are getting through the va, we are being neglected. guest: sir, first of all, i want to thank you for your service to the country and i want to thank every veteran out there who have actually served our country as you have. actually i am sure many of my constituents serve alongside with you in vietnam, as they did in korea, and europe during the second world war, and in both gulf war's end as they are doing today and afghanistan and iraq. in that sense, actually i have over 150,000 veterans in part 3 of that, believe cannot, don't have the same access -- it does not apply just because it is a territory. if they moved to georgia or florida or new york , they new givetricare -- they would get tricare. we are treated equally in wartime, but not peace time. the plight of our vete

caller: my dad was a world war ii veteran and i'm a vietnam veteran. and i honor the men who fought in d-day because, although they were not totally cognizant of what the outcomes of world war ii were to be very fought valiantly. so that has to be honored. but the last caller i would have to stress he was -- that is a misnomer. it is not veterans for peace t. veterans for surrender. and the black woman who said we should honor what russia contributed to the world war ii effort is one thing. russia was supplied greatly with american arms an supplies and without those arms and supplies they would have been in much worse shape. not only that, they sent their soldiers to die en masse because being a communist country they had no conception and no honor of human life. so they sacrificed their own soldiers by the thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps even millio millions. i'm not an expert on world war ii, but the thing of it is that when world war ii was ended the communists took over half of europe and the united states, after defeating germany, should hav

fugitive days" this is what i was saying a minute ago, i talk about the fact that whenever i go to the vietnam wall in washington, and i go whenever i'm in washington, it makes me weep because there are 60,000 young americans on that wall. and the other part that makes me weep is that there are three million indoe chinese missing from the wall. why are they missing? doesn't each one of them have a father and a father? isn't each one of them somebody who had someone who cared for them? why are they invisible to us? and frankly, i think that this is something that we, this is a function of so many things. certainly the speed of the modern world, certainly the pressures we're all under, certainly mass communication. but it's also, i think, a deeply ancient and human problem, how do we see beyond our tribal and national and racial and gender affiliations and see one another as people with hopes and dreams and aspirations and skills and capacities and futures that have to be taken into account if we're going to live in a fully human world? >> host: bill ayers is the husband of bernardine dohrn who

navy, spending four years in active duty including a year in vietnam. after attending business school, i joined merrill lynch and spent 28 years leaving as president in 1999. the merrill i held many positions in finance, human resources and investment banking and capital markets and general management. in 1998 i played a central role in unwinding long-term capital management, the hedge fund that a decade ago presented a systemic risk to our banking system. i learned from my experiences at merrill that the long-term success of financial institutions includes sound corporate governances including independent checks and balances, tight control over risk and executive compensation geared to long-term performance on behalf of clients as well as shareholders. at merrill lynch i contributed to strengthening the governance practices in the 1990s. since leaving merrill lynch a decade ago i've led two other major financial institutions through transitions necessary for their long-term success. in 2002 i became chairman and ceo of tiaa-creff, a leading retirement

i would hope that the members of congress will look at this and let's not repeat vietnam. our men and women in uniform vice president given and given and given. and it's time now to say we have a definition of victory. that's all a mr. mcgovern's amendment is asking. with that, mr. speaker, i will yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield at this time to the gentleman from california, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. berman, one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. berman: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. i have tremendous respect for my friend and colleague from massachusetts. i know he always has the best interest of the nation and our armed services at heart. but i must oppose the amendment. as much as all of us would like to have our brave men and women home again reunited with their loved ones, we don't have a choice but to keep the troops on the ground in afghanistan for some period of time. the only way we can succeed in afghanistan is to create an environm

what we have learned from iraq and afghanistan and what we should have learned from vietnam, is that ordinary people whose lives are driven by principle, whether you agree with the principle or the not is irrelevant, refuse to be intimidated by overwhelming military forces. they cannot be conquered. the day of the expert and privileged information seems almost over. this is a time of the sweat bath, of oceans boiling over. of underground explosions. of the planet world away, of extermination sure to follow, i'm quoting the poet, my french isn't all that good. and in the sweat bath you want next to your side, watching your back, a-students or walk-about graduates like richard branson. will you hire vol dick torrians or surf bum, and we need far less professional zashgs which is the kind of social hardening of the arteries, not more, we need to deal the young in on every new design as partners, not as human resources. we need a quality of human interconnection, suggested by youtube and my space and facebook. we need to use school to discover new knowledge, not to exclusively memorize t

vietnam fell. this is, in fact, the aspirations of the people to have greater freedom. many people will call this, including the administration, will call this an internal affair. minority rights, whether it is one man standing in front of a tank or hundreds of thousands going to the streets to protest the lack of any rights for women, the lack of basic education that once was plentiful and iran being pulled back. that kind of minority demand is no different than when they went on strike in poland. even though we had no direct ability to affect it, we supported that. that is what america is about. we look at the side whose rights are not being upheld, and we say to the majority, they must find a way to give the rights to those people. these aspirations are legitimate and consistent with american values. thank you. >> thank you so much. my name is tom price, i represent the sixth district in georgia. i stand with men and women who understand that liberty is enduring. and that tyranny is temporary. t

it goes from the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we missed obama's election.ll of that history, the fall of communism, it is all fair. one of the lessons for conservatives at this moment, we are pretty glum because things are pretty grim. they really are grim. you have to remember it has been worse. the late 70s were awful. they were just awful. there was watergate, there was the fall of vietnam, there was an energy crisis, there was gerald ford's good but bumbling intentions, jimmy carter's unionists, cubans were patrolling africa, soviets were occupying afghanistan. was an awful time that ended with ronald reagan. i am not saying every disaster ends with ronald reagan. they don't. sometimes they just keep getting worse and worse. but it is important for conservatives to remember we have been through a very bad patches before. i hope that is another thing this book can remind people of. the third movement of the book is a portrait of the relationship, a relationship between an older man and young demand. i was a boy when i started. i would have been called yo

he is also a humanitarian who has worked for indian rights and for vietnam veterans. he is currently active in a continuing africa to airlift children from the contaminated areas of chernobyl, and he has received the congressional medal of honor society bob hope's award for his support for our military. as the video that you are about to see shows, he is a celebrated actor, and he is here because he loves america, and he is not afraid to speak up for the values that built this country. ladies and gentlemen, i call your attention to this wonderful video. ♪ >> .yesterday, december 7, 1944, 1, a date which will live in infamy. the united states of america was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of japan. >> john vogyt was born in new york. in 1969, he became a household name, but he received his academy award nomination for "in midnight cowboy. >> i am going to buy you a drink. what the hell do you think of that? >> i do not mind if i do. >> he is an four-time academy award nominee and won the best actor award as a vietnam veteran in

it began to break down because younger reporters were anti vietnam. younger reporters were pro emigration and anti watergate. you get an entire judgmental personality that began to replace the so-called objectivity of the edward r. murrow generation. what has happened with the rise of fox and rush limbaugh, we've really gone back to a nineteenth century model. if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a republican, you subscribe to the republican newspaper, and vice versa. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as c- span did. he founded side cover the other in very interesting ways. we're moving back to that. i am expecting msn b.c. to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i'm sure james expects fox to be a left-wing channel. >> in most countries, it is the -- it is a different paper. that may be fine. this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago tribune, the loss angeles times, the new york times was marketing its building. i thi

, controversy over the vietnam war. it affected and alignment in new politics. the republican base rose to 45%. as people that normally voted democratic moved into the republican category, largely over their values and social issues that made them vote against their economic interests. and over the sense that we were either out of tough-guy -- out of touch with them or to tie to the past. once you realize that math, explains what happened for the next 30 years. we had to win two--- 2/3 of the undecided vote to win the presidential election. the congressional seats held onto were largely a function of deep-seated personal loyalties to the member of congress which overrode the issues of the day. that is why we only had two presidents between 1968 and 2008. and why i was fortunate enough to be reelected, but the only president since roosevelt. do not clap, this is serious. al from reserves a serious speech. it is important that you understand the role he played. what did jimmy carter and i have an 76 and 92? we had to of t

the sinking happen with johnson in vietnam. we do the same thing happened with johnson in vietnam. things started to swing back toward the executive with reagan. there has been a series of swings and i think there is a big swing going on now that started on the day of 9/11 that obama is now continuing. the first crisis is at war. the first two panelists noted that this president sounded like a region level during the campaign, his release start -- he is really stuck to a lot of bush's positions on national security with military tribunals, indefinite detention in afghanistan, state secrets fit, withholding torture photos. he has found a middle ground on a lot of things, but let's face it. he has disappointed the liberal aclu types. some have accused the president of exercising czar-like powers. reason number two is the economy. we already know how many billions and even trillions of dollars have been basically put other to help rescue the economy without even a say so by congress at this point. we have a crisis, the president gets more power. number three is that people love obama.

disillusionment of hugh, who called earlier, was a common feeling among people my age as they returned from vietnam. i had a brother in the service, i had classmates in the service, cousins in the service. they were so disillusioned that they joined the antiwar movement in droves. so john kerry, to take one famous example, john kerry denounced the war to the senate threw his medals at the congress, said i don't want these medals, and then tried to live it down, and i think to his discredit, really, when he ran for president. so you have this amazing development of an antiwar movement powered by vets, powered by the black movement, powered by young people and comes 1968 lyndon johnson for those of you who are young, he was the president then. i know we don't teach history, it's one of the things we've forgotten, but lyndon johnson announced at the end of march in 1968 that he would not run for president, he would work to end the war. we celebrated. we were jubilant. thousands of us gathered in the center of campus and had just a party all night long because we'd won. three years of war, a miserable

. >> telephone conversation from the final months of lyndon johnson's presidency on vietnam, you and appointees, and troubles for his pick for supreme court chief justice. list and saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span radio, baltimore-washington. 90.1 fm, onliner at,adio.org and xm satellite. >> how c-span funded? >> no clue. >> maybe some government grants. >> i would say donations. >> advertising for products? >> public money, i'm sure. >> taxes? >> how is he spent funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives. no government mandate, no government money. >> "washington journal" continues. host: newsweek managing editor john nigam joins me from new york. good morning. this cover story -- victory in iraq. he writes in this that the country's fate still hangs in the balance between failure and success and american actions would make a crucial difference. can you elaborate on that for us? >> we are in arguably the third of fourth phase of the war. we have gone from shock and all to it insurgency and a surge

as a vietnam veteran, let me say that the veteran association is taking care of me. i don't like them but they do the job. look at the number of veterans in hospitals with these colonoscopy checks. that is horrible. these are the true heroes end of the care we are getting through the veteran administration, we are getting neglected. >> guest: server, first of all, i want to thank you for a disservice to the country and i want to thank every veteran out there that has actually served our country as you have. actually i am sure many of my constituents served alongside with you in vietnam as they did in korea and europe during second world war, as they did in both gulf wars and as they're doing today in afghanistan and iraq. and in that sense actually i have over 150,000 veterans and puerto rico that believe it or not they don't have the same access to the services you have today. tricare does not apply to puerto rico just because it is a territory, if they moved to georgia or florida or new york they would get tricare. that is another issue that i am raising all the ti

i lost two uncles and vietnam. -- in vietnam. we went into iraq and killed millions of people, thousands of american troops were lost and we did not belong in iran. we have to let this thing play out. we should support the president and lindsay graham should be ashamed of himself saying we need to come out. we have enough problems here in this country and not on our hands in afghanistan and trying to get out of iraq and how dare him suggest that the president should and will result in iran. i support all the callers who support the president and we are americans and we should not be split between democrats and republicans. this is one country and it has been split down the middle for way too long, eight years of bush and we have nothing but blood on our hands so for lindsay graham to say this present will have blood on his hands, look at the last administration. host: that call from brooklyn, new york. the front page from "the new york times" with a picture of the demonstrations in iran. lead article, unrest sharply divides the r

two years in that anxiety trying to figure out where they will go if they will be drafted or go to vietnam or will they resist or do legal services for the poor, a practice for the rich, it was a tumultuous time inside the law school. never went to practice i went does say activist then stood as for a democratic society. but i did law and i continue to do lot and teach lot even though i did the practice law. >> host: as the leader you sent many of the communiques that were sent out and in this book a sing a battle song it was from december 6, 1970. what was the impact of new morning? from being fugitives from the underground, so to speak. as a cautionary tale, really, to try to draw activists back from what we saw as a possible role into terrorism, and to engage in symbolic actions, to resist the government primarily by words and by actions that would be understood by everybody, to be engaged in an educational and teach-in kind of way, and to encourage mass activity and popular activity and local organizing. so we were trying to remedy some of our worst mistakes from a rhetorical point of

one such government is the socialist republic of vietnam. about 10 years ago the vietnamese ministry of labor and social affairs directly oversaw and operated two state-owned labor companies that were involved in the largest human trafficking case ever prosecuted by the u.s. department of justice. the case thoroughly documented the exploitation and abusive conditions faced by more than 230 workers at the factory in american samoa. these victims were beaten, starved, sexually harassed, and threaten with deo portation. the high court of american samoa subsequently found these state-owned labor agencies libel for the aatrocities and make them pay $3.5 million to the victims. almost 10 years after the ruling, vietnam still refuses to acknowledge its part in these atrocities and pay. madam speaker, i ask that the u.s. congress demand the vietnamese government pay the damages and respect the rule of law. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? ms. kaptur: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to a

what they were going to do, where were they going to go, were they going to be drafted, going to vietnam, were they going to resist or do legal services for the poor, practice for the rich so there was a tumultuous time inside the law school. i never practiced law. i was an activist for the national lawyers guild and students for the democratic society but i did law and i continue to do law and teach law even though i didn't practice law. >> host: as a leader of the weather underground you sent or wrote many of the communiques that were sent out, and in this book, sing a battle song, one of the communiques was from december 6, 1970, new morning. what was the impact and importance of new moring? >> guest: new morning we wrote from being fugitives from the underground, so to speak. as a cautionary tale, really, to try to draw activists back from what we saw as a possible role into terrorism, and to engage in symbolic actions, to resist the government primarily by words and by actions that would be understood by everybody, to be engaged in an educational and teach-in kind of way, and to enc

many of them have sacrificed from world war i, world war ii, the vietnam war, korea and in other conflicts that we had up to the most latest war that we had. i think it's only appropriate that we name the post office which is in front of a plaza or it's also recognized as way that we recognized the veterans. it plays an -- it is in an appropriate place. i ask you to join me in support of h.r. 2325 where we name the laredo post office at 1300 matamoros after the brave men and women that we have in laredo to be named as the laredo veterans post office. at this time i yield back the balance of my time. thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. bilbray: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: madam speaker, we have no further speakers at this time. however i continue to reserve. mr. bilbray: madam speaker, i yield back the at this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back his time. the g

i was taking economics when i came out of the service in the vietnam era, and the gentleman said this war, vietnam, along with some programs that johnson is getting through, it is going to cost us a lot inflationary because we cannot have the budget. -- we cannot have guns and butter, meaning you cannot have social programs along with building up large budget. who knows how much the cost overrun is going to be on this new laser plane he is talking about? this is scary to me because we need -- europe has medical care for everybody and also free tuition at their colleges. guest: well, i think what you see here, and this is fairly typical of the difference between the two political parties in america, and that is the perspective of what the federal government should be doing. i think the caller is making a case for the socialize medicine that they have in england. a lot of the european countries and canada -- as a republican and conservative, i do not think it should be the job of the federal government to run the medical system. i do not want to get sick and have to run into a medical s

of the men who gave their last full measure in vietnam. of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice, it is a story that has never come easy, but one that always gives us hope. we cannot help but draw from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow secure a beachhead on an unforgiving sure. those men who achieve that victory 65 years ago, we thank you for your service. may god bless you and may god bless the memory of all those to rest here. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, four of the normandy veterans that are with us here today will be awarded the legion of honor in recognition of their efforts and bravery. the legion of honor is france's highest decoration. it was created by napoleon bonaparte in 18 02. today's recipients will be awarded the order of officer of the legion of honor. [speaking french] [but bugle plays] >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the legion of honor presentation for jack woods, joseph roach of canada and [inaudible] mili

vietnam, watergate, oil shocks, and economic troubles.t were high and public confidence was low. experts said america's best days were behind her and that we ought to lower our expectations. but ronald reagan and his boundless optimism would have none of that. we are not as some would have us believe doomed to an inevitable decline as he said as his first inaugural. we have every right to dream and to dream heroic dreams. and so ladies and gentlemen, we did. president reagan demonstrated the power of big ideas. he was guided by deeply held core values. principles. about taxes. about spending. about national defense. and most of all perhaps about the essential goodness of the american people and the greatness of america itself. at the same time this idealist was also a principled practicing mativity. he would fight the good fight, and when he had won all that could be won, he would accept the compromises that were dictated oftentimes by political reality, declare victory and move on. so you say well, how did he do. when he left office in 1

frampled, vietnam, new zealand, lebanon and jamaica have ministries of tourism. germany has a national tourist board and australia has a tourism australia program. in 2005, greece spent more than $150 million on travel promoti promotion. france spent $63 million. that's what we're up against. the travel promotion act, madam president, would level the playing field so we can compete with the rest of the world and recapture the lost market share. it will create the corporation for travel promotion, a public-private partnership to promote the united states as an international travel destination and finally establish a coordinated national travel program. under the direction of a board of directors made up of representatives from the states, the federal government and the travel industry, the corporation would be in charge of a national travel promotion program whose goals would be to encourage travel to the united states, to communicate our country's travel policies, and to promote international exposure for parts of america that don't have the resources to promote

the democracies of the world can open the internet to people in china, vietnam and north korea. such access to the truth, we strike the fire walls and strikes a flow to the tyranny in much the way that the berlin wall brought an end to communism in europe. we are here to remember and to call for truth. it's truth that tyrannies hear the most. it's truth that a stable society and created international ability. we must demand truth from the government of china. we must take up the call of fallen brothers as we broad to the democracy in tiananmen square. chinese people arise. erect to the statute of god of democracy in your heart. long live freedom. long live democracy. thank you. >> thank you, dr. jianli. i am extremely pleased to call a voice of congress of human rights, the honorable chris smith of new jersey. >> thank you very much, and thank each and ever -- every one of you being here today on the remembrance of tiananmen square. those of tiananmen square will ever be forgotten, of their sacrifice, it will never be in vain. i believe and i believe you believe it as well, that

of secret audio recordings from the nixon white house from early 1973 on the agreement to end the vietnam war. >> they are not to have any advance information is that clear? the message is not to be from me. >> more from the new release tape of this afternoon on c-span radio. tomorrow on washington journal, a look at with the unrest in iran means for the future of the government with jack goldstone of george mason university. then a discussion on the economy, unemployment and world financial markets with peter barisi from the university of maryland. and then the producer talks about a film, shouting fire, stories from the edge of free speech at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. how c-span funded? >> it is publicly funded. >> donations? >> government? by mike it gets the money surtaxes. >> i don't know. helices been funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public surface -- service. no government monday -- money. president obama and german chancellor angela merkel had a press conference. they discuss the future of guantanamo and global china -- climate change. it is my pleasu