and vietnam are strengthening ties, mainly on the economic front. but for the vietnamese people, the war is something they can never forget. meanwhile, the u.s. is being pressed to face up to the reality of what it did in vietnam. nhk world. >>> time now for a check on the weather the tokyo commuters are feeling warm, maybe even hot as they get to work today. we get the latest in world weather. >> good morning. it's quite warm this morning. what can we expect up ahead? >> good morning. it's going to be a hot and sunny day here in tokyo. the high could rise 28 degree, feeling more like july today. the reason is that we have a big high pressure system cresting overhead. that is keeping things dry, and also keeping the frontal system away from the country. a wealth of sunshine will continue into the next several days for much of the country. mean whale, the southwestern islands of japan, taiwan and southeastern china are still dealing with heavy rain due to a stalled system. one province may get up to 1 millimeters of rain. mostly dry for the northern

trooped pulled out of vietnam. the people in vietnam are still realing from the lingers effects of agent orange. now a u.s. nonprofit organization is spearheading an effort to help those who are suffering. akiko has more. >>> in dananag, a new center was opened. the group offers direct aid to those in need. on this day, the members visited a 75-year-old woman. she has been taking care of her handicap son and his mentally disabled sister. >> the u.s. ruined our lives. it seems i've been stuck in jail for 40 years, just taking care of my children. >> the u.s. government has not offered any compensation to people suffering from the progresses. members make regular visits assessing the situations, and helping them financially. >> i felt that what the united states did here during the war was terrible. we're well goo into the third generation of the affects of agent orange. quickly approaching the fourth generation, and there is no relief relief in sight. >> since last year, it was a tour across vietnam for u.s. nationa

the vote is a rare attempt to grade the leaders of vietnam. nhk world's ichihara reports. >> reporter: they cast their ballots on monday for 47 leaders in top positions in the national government including president and prime minister. members could vote on whether they had high confidence, confidence and low confidence in the officials. the vote is part of changes approved by the legislature last year. all leaders survived the vote, but the prime minister received a blow. more than 30% of members gave a low-confidence vote on his performance. it could be a sign of public dissatisfaction with the country's slowing economic growth. the lowest ranked among the 47 leaders is the central bank governor. who received low-confidence votes from more than 40% of members. the communist party closely controls both the parliament and media in vietnam. it is very rare for political leaders to be subject to such evaluation. vietnam's state-run media say the country's first-ever confidence vote should promote later accountability in government. observers say

soccer fans in vietnam will soon be able to watch japanese league matches on cable television. they got a taste on tuesday when a game took place in hanoi. >> reporter: a friendly match between the teams from the "j" league and the local vietnamese team is about to kick off. as the skills of japanese soccer team improves, they are winning new fans in asia. here in hanoi, people were again excited. japan's national soccer team on tuesday secured a part of the world cup for the fifth time in a row. the achievement shows how japanese soccer has improved since the j-league kicked off two decades ago. here in vietnam, people are taking notice. >> translator: japanese soccer players have superb technique and strategy, and they're very professional. >> translator: i'm looking forward to watching "j" league games airing in vietnam. >> reporter: ahead of the friendly game, "j" league officials held a news conference. they are now vietnam's largest cable tv channel to broadcast "j" league matches twice a week beginning in july. >> translator: we want many vietnamese viewers to enjoy watc

this one as my grandfather in vietnam he was a pilot bosnia was six months. my first trip to iraq was only six months so that's a year my second trip to iraq was a year a trip to afghanistan was a year my last trip was fifteen months this was a stream and from that from it was to. me i'm oldest boy who is now. and. mom or somebody. i'm very proud that i have been in the military i'm proud that i've been to war but however good people do get hurt and i've hurt good people. and. there's a reason i'm getting out of the army retired cop that's the reason. i have a. chronic p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder. to be honest with you i just got out of a mental institution up weeks ago. i was there for thirty days. to help me with my p.t.s.d. . and it's from the stuff i've gone through the stuff i've done and iraq. how serious is the beef we go to mental institution britishers. all the people in that place with me they were all military. everybody else there except me had tried to kill themselves i was getting ready to go kill other people . when you get ready. t

when we were ordained. >> did you ordain in vietnam? >> no. they had no need for me but i was prepared to serve our jews that were serving in vietnam. >> every religious tradition seems to think even today how do we bring our jews and teach them our values and how to teach the stage to move them in the community with a spiritual richness and do good in the world. when you think back on those years and the influence this had, what is it about you think a youth group and peer support that is so potent for the religious community? >> the most important segment for raising up the jews, the school that values the jewish tradition but what is described with regard to religion in general that it's three miles wide and three inches deep. i think it's one of my regrets but we now have the technology to move forward and transform that and we have been able to do that. >> do you think the jewish community in general but every jewish community would think of how to paradigm the structures and work with them? >> if you keep doing what you are doing

: memories of vietnam sometimes made him cry uncontrollably.k it is about the experience that made you so emotional? >> i think that i was mourning my loss of innocence. >> reporter: tschudi says the project is helping him regain respect for his own service. >> this is a way of honoring us and keeping that story forever. and i went running in and jumped in the middle of them. >> reporter: the stories of war told by those who lived it and preserved for those willing to listen. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> is paris jackson still on suicide watch? i'm nancy o'dell. >> teenagers who attempt suicide are far more likely than adults to try it again. >> paris' condition today. her mom debbie rowe and her aunt latoya rushing to the hop. family friend kathy elton on what happened inside the house. >> grace called me, the children's nanny, in hysterics crying. >> uncle and brother are with the female. fe

of vietnam sometimes made him cry uncontrollably.it is about the experience that made you so emotional? >> i think that i was mourning my loss of innocence. >> reporter: tschudi says the project is helping him regain respect for his own service. >> this is a way of honoring us and keeping that story forever. and i went running in and jumped in the middle of them. >> reporter: the stories of war told by those who lived it and preserved for those willing to listen. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> and good evening. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm julie watts. allen and elizabeth are off tonight. president obama has just touched down at moffett field. we have live pictures here of him shaking hands and greeters tonight. he is here for another withdrawal from the bay area money machine. air for

: memories of vietnam sometimes made him cry uncontrollably.k it is about the experience that made you so emotional? >> i think that i was mourning my loss of innocence. >> reporter: tschudi says the project is helping him regain respect for his own service. >> this is a way of honoring us and keeping that story forever. and i went running in and jumped in the middle of them. >> reporter: the stories of war told by those who lived it and preserved for those willing to listen. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >> coming up, what caused the dc landmark to burn to the ground? >> it was tragic. it's been a tremendous outpouring. >> plus, a woman beaten and sexually assaulted in her own home. >>> and all eyes on andrea. >> it was a thunder that did not stop. >> we've got our share of storms right here in the dc area as well. before we get to those, topper has the latest on tropical storm andrea. >> she made

in vietnam, another case study, in vietnam we just screwed it up totally.esidential action, mindlessly pursuing a policy that was clearly failing as you looked at it, but you could not accept the responsibility for the ultimate failure or loss. >> host: you write about one war korea fought to a stale mate. another war, vietnam, that we lost. how close do you think any of the presidents involved if came -- we lost all those warses without using the ultimate weapon how close were we to using nuclear weapons to try to resolve one of those wars? >> guest: well, in vietnam, richard nixon, vice president, and admiral raft, the chairman of the joint chiefs, recommended the use of three nuclear weapons again communist forces in a battle, and eisenhower, god bless him said, are you guys nuts? we just used two weapons less than ten years ago, against the japanese. you cannot do that in asia. white man -- you can't do that. and so he stopped it. johnson never, to the best of my only, never thought about the use of nuclear weapons. nixon thought about it, but killed th

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you remember the body bags in vietnam. patraeus said he was not interested body counts but building bridges. at the same time the boy standing across alaska law officers protecting enormously lethal pull on enemies. barack obama, i really don't like the bush particles, the anti-terrorism, increased the drone tally by ten that he would not be criticized in the way that bush was. in the same manner, david petraes realized the more he count -- talked up counterinsurgency the more lethal his troops could be in the shadows. finally there was the awakening for popular tribal leaders step and said, we are sick of al qaeda, they are thugs and criminals and not representative of islam. something coalesced and momentum builds. david petraes saved -- nsa saved. whenever iraq will become a will be something, but it will not be anything had not conducted a search eliminated. my favorite chapter of all five of the greatest man -- american military practice is matthew ridgeway. some of your like when the hell is matthew ridgeway. whe

was in the vietnam was based upon lies and going to course was confirmed to do thousand and four when i was teaching at harvard robert mcnamara kid through right before he died and admitted the gulf of tonkin incident didn't happen well that was the incident that put us into the vietnam war we're fifty eight thousand of my generation were killed and probably a million vietnamese killed who knows and so i would see i started to about the time of richard nixon. i think is when i started to become the rebel and started to really doubt and question and i also believe what jefferson said and jefferson said dissensions the greatest form of patriotism and i agree with that if you go along to get along you have bad government if you hold their feet to the fire and scrutinize them for this anything they do you will have good government i'll never forget what general wallace greene who is the commandant of the u.s. marine corps told me once this was during the war and i said what do you make of all these protests is a o.b.j. of any cases and he said thank god for them the opposite weiss's becau

was in the vietnam was based upon lies was going to course was confirmed to do thousand and four when i was teaching at harvard and robert mcnamara kid through right before he died and admitted the gulf of tonkin incident didn't happen well that was the incident that put us into the vietnam war were fifty eight thousand of my generation were killed and probably a million vietnamese killed who knows and so i would see i started to about the time of richard nixon. i think is when i started to become the rebel and started to really doubt and question and i also believe what jefferson said and jefferson said dissensions the greatest form of patriotism and i agree with that if you go along to get along you'll have bad government if you hold their feet to the fire and scrutinize them for this anything they do you will have good government i'll never forget what general wallace greene who is the commandant of the u.s. marine corps told me once this was during the war and i said what do you make of all these protests is a b.j. over to his and he said thank god for them said weiss's because th

there's a lot of guilt left over from vietnam.if there are a lot of heroes in the military, a lot of people that are less than heroes as well. paul fussell is one, he was talking about the greatest generation and he said something about there being a lot of drunks and villains and greatest generation as well. and that is, you know, to me that is part of a total paraphrase. that is the idea. what i am opposed to is mythologizing. and i think that upsets people. again, you know, i have spent a great deal of my life with members of the military in these situations. honestly i do not think that the people, those who have reached out to me and i have spoken to, they have never criticized and in fact a lot of them have said to me, they have said this is what it is really like. to me, that was the greatest compliment. if the think tankers and washington are upset village and probably did much of. c-span: how long were you allowed to hang around the general and his staff? >> guest: off and on for a month. paris, berlin, kandahar, going ba

our nation of vietnam veterans have wait to do long for this education center. it's a shame that a long line of political gamesmanship has delayed its construction. mr. speaker, after the vietnam war, many of our nation's bravest were welcomed home but not with joy and with cheers or words of thanks but with dirty looks and snide remarks. let us not forget the fact, let us end these political games. i call upon my colleagues in the house, especially upon my colleagues in the senate, to quickly pass this resolution, so this education center can finally be built. we can all agree that this legislation and this center is a long time coming and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from the northern mariana islands. mr. sablan: mr. speaker, i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sablan: thank you, mr. speaker. this is a very important issue before us today. e senate amended h.r. 558 to allow an

the communist party closely controls both the parliament and media in vietnam. it is very rare for political leaders to be subject to such evaluation. vietnam's say the country's first-ever confidence vote should promote accountability in government. observers say the results show to some extent the personal judgment of each parliamentary member. the votes can be seen as reflection of public frustration over the scandal and economic policies. nhk world, hanoi. >>> myanmar president ten sane has held his first meeting with the sean state army, the biggest minority group in the country. the government has reached cease fire agreements but fighting continues with other groups, including the shaw. the meeting took place on monday. according to ap, state army leader, jod sirk, said the president agreed to his proposal to set up a committee with the aim of working out a peace process. the country has lagged behind due to the civil war. we came to discuss how we can cooperate in the future to end this civil war. >> an minn, the minister, says the main problem is that t

it is time for somebody to look at vietnam.i think you can believe 40 years after the fact while there's still many veterans like roger who is still alive, there are documents classified for a long time now unclassified, and that the time may be right for somebody to take on vietnam. i think the best book out there is neil's bright and shining line in 1998, i believe. it's not going to be me. i now look at the revolution. i only do one at a time. maybe if i finish the revolution, maybe vietnam, we'll see. montgomery, gosh. it's important to recognize, first of all, i have sympathy for him because he's got a very difficult childhood, grows up in tasmania, his father is a bishop, has an awful mother. she's kind of loveless, and she is forever saying find out what bernard is doing and make him stop, and so he is shipped off to school in london, and it's a boarding school, and he has to make his own way, and there's an emotional vir jillty about him that plays out in month come ri's psyche as a self-absorption. there's a guy who is

number one, the effect of the vietnam war. >> guest: yes. yes. well, obviously, i think the effect is terribly serious and with us still. the u.s. is over the paralyzing fear of using its military and some could make the case, and i particularly trieded to make it because i'm not sure that it's true, but i respect it made in a serious way. the americans enter casually at times or has recently and the military engagements, but i'm afraid that the manner in which the war was conducted and the manner in which the end of the war came have left a damaging impact on the country. i'll tell you why. the -- this gets complicated, but as you know, the democrats entered the war, president johnson, obviously, there was an american presence in south vietnam before that, but the act of military participation of the americans came in president johnson's time, and he deployed 550,000 members of the armed forces there, almost all of them conscripted, not volunteers, and he largely won the war, and this was demonstrated in the on thive, but instead of coming to th

and that was vietnam.bably at the bottom of that have was his ego because he was i think very much afraid the people were going to see who lost vietnam. johnson didn't know how to defend it so he stayed and kept racing the ante in vietnam and it cost us a huge number of lives. >> schieffer: but he also passed the civil rights bills. >> i think that was one of the great pieces of legislation in history because we eliminated discrimination against deserving decent american people. i almost lost the election over that and i've had to go around and say now i want you to explain to me why is a black man or woman should not be able to vote if they're a citizen when an american who happens to be a white man or woman can vote? and people responded. >> schieffer: when you look back in those days, those were the days of these great across-the-aisle relationships. i mean, i don't think there's any question lyndon johnson could not have passed that without everett dirkson, the republican leader. >> you're a wise man,

was getting ready to leave vietnam there were parallel tracks on one hand they were fighting on the other hand in paris they were talking about all this these kinds of wars i have some other outcomes eventually as that would grow old it gets closer and as the fatigue in western societies become deeper you will see more aggressive behavior from the other side which in this case is the taleban so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion by loving couple a double sultanzoy political analyst and a former afghan m.p. thank you for joining us here on r.t. thank you. well up as we did a speak to stevens who knows he's a bit earlier in the program here on r.t. and professor of international studies at the university of san francisco he believes that no matter how strong the afghan army may be it will still never win its people in the country are deeply opposed to the current government. problem is that even if they're very well trained even if they have the very best equipment. a strength of the afghan government relative to the taliban and other forms of resistance doesn

when when the united states was getting ready to leave vietnam there were parallel tracks on one handthey were fighting on the other hand in paris they were talking so eventually as that would draw all day it gets closer and as the fatigue in western societies become deeper you will see more aggressive behavior from the other side which in this case is the taleban so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion. always got more a click away including this big bank scan being uncovered. europe or in ireland stopped by national institutions of push politicians into a hole into handing out billions of euros to avoid a bank meltdown in two thousand and eight no hint of being paid back more on that including leave tapes of private conversations between bank tycoons. the us when the past catches up germany opens an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who's been living in the us for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country claiming he never fought in the second world war. water becoming a rare commodity for some palestinians taps in the homes of ar

this one is my grandfather in vietnam he was a pilot bosnia was six months. my first trip to iraq was only six months so that's a year my second trip to iraq was a year the trip to afghanistan was a year my last trip was fifteen months this was a stream and from there from it was to. me i'm oldest boy whose mom. and. mom are somebody. i'm very proud that i have been in the military i'm proud that i've been to war but however good people do get hurt and i've hurt good people. and. there's a reason i'm getting out of the army retired up that's the reason. i have a. chronic p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder. to be honest with you i just got out of a mental institution a couple weeks ago. i was there for thirty days. to help me with my p.t.s.d. . and it's from the stuff i've gone through with the stuff i've done and iraq. how serious it is to be before you go to live in the institution producers. all the people in that place with me they were all military. everybody else there except me had tried to kill themselves. i was getting ready to go kill other peop

water fatigue by foreign forces if you look at this you can see parallels to the vietnam peace process when when the united states was getting ready to leave vietnam there were parallel tracks on one hand they were fighting on the other hand and paris they were talking so eventually as that of a draw all day it gets closer and as the fatigue in western societies become deeper you'll see more aggressive behavior from the the side which in this case is the taleban so this is this is going to escalate not decline in my opinion. always more news for you a click away at r.t. dot com including a big bank scam on covered the report on how ireland's institutions of push politicians into handing out billions of euros to avoid bank meltdown in two thousand and eight and there's no hint of it being repaid more on that including leave tapes of private conversations between bank leaders on our team plus when the past catches up germany opening an investigation into a nazi s.s. commander who been living in the us secretly for more than sixty years after reportedly sneaking into the country claiming

this one as my grandfather in vietnam it was a pilot i was an analyst six months. my first trip to iraq was only six months so that's a year my second trip to iraq was a year the trip to afghanistan was a year my last trip was fifteen months this was a dream. is to. me i'm oldest boy whose mom. and. mom are somebody. i'm very proud that i have been in the military i'm proud that i've been to war but however good people do get hurt and i've hurt good people and. there's a reason i'm getting out of the army retired cop that's the reason. i have a. chronic p.t.s.d. post-traumatic stress disorder. to be honest with you i just got out of a mental institution took weeks ago. i was there for thirty days. to help me with my p.t.s.d. . and it's from the stuff i've gone through the stuff i've done and are. how serious just because we go to mental institution producers. all the people in that place with me they were all military. everybody else there except me had tried to kill themselves i was getting ready to go kill other people when you get ready. to get in my car and dri

then he charged off to vietnam in 1966 and 1967. thirty of them were killed in vietnam. then they came home and found that they were pariahs within a generation. they were no longer the leaders, they were the outcasts as the country went through this upheaval over the war and many other things. and i went to the 15th reunion in 1981 at west point. everyone is crying, it was so heartbreaking and clear that this was a powerful story that allows you to tell a social history of america over it order sentry. i went back to their 20th reunion in 1986, that is when i began working on this book. i do feel that there were 579 men in a class, still all-male at that point. an extraordinary bunch, not only for what they went through in vietnam, but the things that happen to them subsequently. the book is built around three central characters. i'm still very close to the men from that time. i've always think of them as 18-year-old boys showing up at west point. i feel a great sense of attachment. >> host: who are jack wheeler and can't walk hard reign. >> host: they are the two centr

military involvement in vietnam ended.was the west point class of 1974, the first class of young officers to have lived their whole adult lives, training for combat and army leadership at west point in the context of this big deadly long war, but upon graduating in 1974, they knew they did not have to go to that war, because u.s. involvement there was over. and in that one class, that one class of 1974 at west point, that one year there was the man who is now the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey and general david petraeus, was head of the cia and commander of the iraq war and afghanistan war and general keith alexander, who runs the nsa, he heads up the largest intelligence agency of any kind in the entire world, and he simultaneously runs the fastest growing part of the united states armed services. cyber command. petraeus, chairman of the joint chiefs and alexander. head of the nsa and cyber command all in the same class from west point which was the first class to graduate once the vietnam w

war. >> it's a police matter in the way the vietnam war was not -- to militarize it has been done. al qaeda is a genuine enemy of the united states. instead, we have converted our attacks -- for example, in pakistan the drone attack, we have made ourself the most hated nation in the world in pakistan. it is an unstable country with a fanatic islamic faction. it was very relekleckless for u be doing the drone attacks. >> americans are okay with what is going on. >> i personally am quite hopeful that the revelations of unconstitution nal behavior here will have a greater effect than they already have. a great call for investigation for hearings and a new select committee like the frank church committee that first investigated the nsa. more effect than i think of bradley mannings investigation. this is something that effected every american here in home. a home that used to be regarded as a person's castle, but is no more. >> two-thirds of the american public say they want to government to investigate threats at the expense of security. don't you find those numbers surprising at the v

. >> reporter: it was a very special father's day celebration at the vietnam veteran's memorial. the base of the memorial is covered in flowers honoring those fathers who went off to war but never came home. the yellow ones are for considered missing in action. on this father's day, people like dennis shine iii could be be any more proud. >> i'm named after my dad, as well as my grand father. to have that name, i felt honored to have it. >> reporter: he was only a year old when his 20-year-old father went off to fight. dennis shine ii would never return from war. this ultimately brought him here to the ball, bearing his dad's name, and legacy. he shared this intimate photo with us taken during a rare leave his father had from his service. >> it is just one of those great memories of him holding me, and his mom in the photo as well, proud as can be with her son approximate her grandchild. >> reporter: like the shine story, there are countless other sons and daughters of vietnam veterans who have grown up without the real life here rows. to those families, this proud son offers thi

. >> countries downstream, especially cambodia and vietnam, are fighting tooth and now to prevent the dam project from going ahead. here, tourists are on the lookout for dolphins, but sightings on the mekong river are increasingly rare. we're in kratie in cambodia. we catch sight of leaping fish. shortly afterwards, a dolphin appears. after years of being hunted, the dolphin stock was largely depleted. the dams are now being planned present an additional threat to these mammals. your art ryan is a dolphin researcher. he uses special camera -- gerrard ryan is a dolphin researcher. he uses special camera equipment to track the dolphin population in the area. he fears that if the dam in laos is built, more will follow. there are currently plans for 10 more dams along the river in cambodia. >> there are two dams planned within dolphin habitat, one at sanbur and one at stuntrek, and another one just upstream at dontahongins in souther laos. and i think any of those dams could have a very significant impact on the population and potentially wipe it out even. >> river traffic is heavy close

he opted for that and helped end the war in vietnam.s is 40 years later, and this young man is deeply concerned about something he learned that says, that affects not only all americans, but people all over the world. >> karen, as someone who, you know, you and i are both on the broad coalition of the center left of america, and i find something powerful about the sheer and raw and evident conscience that is displayed in that video. i mean, it has to -- like, from the place i come from as a progressive, that speaks to me that there's some real moral vision there. >> it does. and look, i remember very clearly when i was at the dnc, when we were fighting the bush administration on the warrantless wiretapping. i mean, many democrats, howard dean among them, you know, the argument we made was, follow the law. we can do, you know, let's follow the law and we can keep america safe. we said we wanted a process. we now have a process. i think the argument needs to be, if this process isn't right, then let's have that conversation. but the other

it was like in the vietnam war when the vietcong claim legitimacy. we ignore it, and it is not to be ignored. the talks themselves will go nowhere. the importance is, for the taliban, it gives them stature, statehood and legitimacy, and we treated it as a wording issue. >> in the vietnam talks, we fought for weeks and months at the table. >> i think the administration got suckered. their understanding was that there would be no flag, there would be no sign like this, and the taliban went ahead and did this. they believed it would be long, messy and ugly. it is going to be longer, messier and uglier than they thought. >> karzai is in a pickle because he is going to get this country and he is going to get the taliban also. the taliban will not go anywhere. they will continue to oppose him. they are trying to buy time to get out of there and they are taking too long to do it. i do not know why we have to wait until next year. every american life lost there is wasted. we are getting out of there. why would you have somebody there for another year. >> a w

number one the effect of the vietnam war. >> i think the effect was terribly cvs. the u.s. is over the paralyzing fear of using its military and some could make the case. i have in particular we tried to make it because i'm not sure that it's true but i respect when it's made in a serious way. they are a little casual what times in the military engagements, but i'm afraid the manner in which the war was conducted and the manner in which the end of the war left a damaging impact on the country and i tell you why. the democrats into the war. johnson obviously. there was an american presence in before that but the act of the participation cayman president johnson's time and he deployed 550,000 members of the armed forces. almost all of them conscript and not volunteers. he largely won the war and this was demonstrated in the tet offensive, but instead of coming to that conclusion, he became demoralized and began to the escalate the war and retired from his office president nixon managed in vietnam they withdraw the american forces entirely. in north vietnamese offensive in apr

. >> you said when he was asked by the marines to do work in vietnam. he said no. why? >> it was during the vietnam war, and he never regretted supporting an contributing so heavily to world war ii cause. he was a major raiser of money for the officer of war information and the treasury department. but by the vietnam war, not only had he married someone who brought out his most liberal tendency, new england schoolteacher, but he himself was so antiviolence. had been all his life. all his life. that the ambivalence that many people he trusted felt toward the vietnam war gave him pause. by the time he had to confront whether he was willing to contribute to the wartime propaganda pictorial wartime propaganda for that war, he wasn't convinced it was the right thing. finally because he was an honorable person, he said i'm not the right man for this. >> when he was the most popular? >> i guess 1950s. i say that with some hesitation. what surprised me in the research for the book was how popular from the beginning of his career -- i'm talking by 1920, when he was 26 years old.