america will have this long history with vietnam. and she was right. we were there another decade. >> where is the irony which is she is vilified in a lot of ways in the media, and yet she was right about the future and america's relationship with vietnam. >> yes. and she said things that were hard to say at the time. she accused the buddhists, who were rise can against the diem regime, of being loosely organized and ripe for communist infiltration, which the americans would find out later, at least in '66 and '68 that would come to be the case. the just called it early and inappropriately. she also accused the american press of being infiltrated by the communists. actually i'll use her favorite word. intoxicated. everybody was intoxicated by the communists. and in that case, too, she actually wasn't so wrong. there were informers working for the americans that were part of the communist system. >> very famous one, who actually -- stanley tarnow. >> yes. >> i was thinking of her this morning, and then saw lady gaga video, and i thought, in a strange wa

change in vietnam in august of 1963. and there were several false starts in saigon. and the coup didn't actually happen until november. madam nhu was in the united states at that time, and no american officials would meet with her. the only public official who met with madam nhu on her trip here to the united states was the director of police in new york city because he had to guarantee her safety. people were throwing things at her. and so she felt really slighted that here she was first lady, and no one was paying any attention or sort of giving her her proper due. and she knew that a regime change in vietnam couldn't have happened without the okay from kennedy and kennedy's administration. so she did, she felt very betrayed. and she made this, like, eerie proclamation as she's getting on the plane to leave the country. she said, again i'm paraphrasing, something like i predict that the story with vietnam is only at its beginning. america will have this long history with vietnam. and she was right. i mean, we were ther

america has come to associate with vietnam.othing about what a beautiful or interesting country oppose. it was really just a fine for me is the war. to see madame nhu's picture jump out, especially the captions called her the face of evil. i had to know more. >> well, before we get to her, there is a narrative that runs parallel in the book, which is your relationship with her in your search for madame nhu. i think in some ways a journalist who's been working for 20 years plus, the investigative part is what i find really intriguing because you didn't know her address in here you aren't curious, searching for her absurdity. this piece of information that you've seen. tell the audience about this. >> sure. so if my husband is here, he would tell you in very persuasive. i really was determined to find madame nhu. and all of my initial research, i expected to find an obituary. there was nothing there. so everything i can sort of gather was that madame nhu was still alive and living in rome. i spoke to a journalist from "the new yo

there's a man, an unsung hero of vietnam, civil serviceman named paul, head of the vietnam working group, and in a meeting with the other big shots had the temerity from the back to say, maybe we shouldn't be there? and a couple weeks later they got rid of him. now, kennedy was one guy what wanted as much information as possible. so i construction a meeting where kennedy brings there is guy to sit down and fight it out, and at the end of it, this is what kennedy says. here's the point, he says. said it to you, mike, mike mansfield, knowledgeable man about vietnam. i said it to kenny o'donnell and charlie bartlett, we don't have a prayer of staying in vietnam. those people hate us. they're going to throw our asss out of there at am any point but i can't give up the territory to the viet cong. every word of that comes from john kennedy's mouth. that's what he said. so, my belief is that he would have gotten out. but not frontally. he was conscious enough of the problems not to, for instance, good on television and say, my fellow americans, we can't win here. we just -- no matter how strong

we wanted to show vietnam was not an aberration.e begin with the overthrow of the government in brazil in 1964, then go to the overthrow in the dominican republic in 1965. we show the u.s. role in the bloodbath in indonesia in 1965. we talked about the escalation of vietnam, and we also talked about u.s. overthrow the allende government in chile. the concern in the u.s. was not cube itself, but the possibility throughout latin america in our own backyard for a series of communist revolutions and radical movements. we weren't under kissinger with the right-wing governments in latin america for something called operation condor, which is basically an operation set up death squads throughout latin america to kill not only revolutionaries, but reformers and dissidents. we see this policy continues through the 1980s under the reagan administration throughout central america. he was working with the right- wing government in el salvador, the u.s. role in guatemala, the u.s. support for the contras in nicaragua. cuba is only a small piece

and of course vietnam.e was under tremendous pressure from people like walt resto johnson's security adviser from vietnam and put ground forces. he did increase the number of advisers from roughly 600 to over 16,000 but he was so resistant to the idea putting in massive numbers of american ground troops. george ball his undersecretary under secretary of state said to him mr. president, you put two or 300,000 ground troops into those jungles of vietnam and you will never hear from them again and kennedy said to him george you are as crazy as hell. i'm never going to do that. what would he have done about vietnam? we will never know. he didn't know. he didn't want to lose vietnam but he did to get deeply enmeshed in it. i love that and go to about he and arthur schlesinger. schlesinger help staring the 60 campaign. at the end of it bobby kennedy said to schlesinger arthur how would you like to be an ambassador and schlesinger said i would do anything i would like to come to the white house. a few days later s

of the you a shot now vietnam women's memorial located near the vietnam wall. the live shot there this morning. of ahas to also the focus piece in today's "usa today." the memory and legacy of the women who served in vietnam and paved the way for future generations will be veteranst the annual day observation observance with a ceremony at 1:00 p.m. at the vietnam veterans memorial in washington. also the vietnam veterans memorial fund will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the women's memorial located near the iconic wall. there's the picture for you. notes intoday" story the chart that more women serve today than ever before. women have accounted for growing share of enlisted troops in the last 50 years, and a chart showing the 1960 numbers branches andajor going from 1970, to 1980, 1990, 2000, and finally 2008 more women accounted for 19.9% of enlisted troops in the air force, 6.2% in the marine corps, 15% in the navy, 13.2% in the army. we want to know what the faces of veterans day for you and whether the war in iraq has changed it. democrat from alexandria

>> i found a dramatically changed vietnam.n saigon, for example, which had been rather seedy, even before colonial days, the city was awash with mercedes, rolex stores, all for the international clients, business people who come to develop business with vietnam. 3 1/2 hours south of saigon, where i fought, we went by van. and found -- i found a vietnam that had not changed at all. the rural part of vietnam looked pretty much the same as it had more than 40 years ago when i fought there. the odd thing was that it didn't feel the same. principally because nobody was shooting at me. but the paths and the roads were all full of people. the place looked the same as it had over 40 years ago. >> what was that feeling like? describe what you felt when you returned. >> a great feeling of displacement. your heart and your eyes are supposed to see the same thing. but they didn't in this case. and my recollection of the place was a very unpleasant one. what i saw was not particularly unpleasant. i got an opportunity to meet with the comma

and of course vietnam.e was under tremendous pressure from people like walt resto johnson's security adviser from vietnam and put ground forces. he did increase the number of advisers from roughly 600 to over 16,000 but he was so resistant to the idea putting in massive numbers of american ground troops. george ball his undersecretary under secretary of state said to him mr. president, you put two or 300,000 ground troops into those jungles of vietnam and you will never hear from them again and kennedy said to him george you are as crazy as hell. i'm never going to do that. what would he have done about vietnam? we will never know. he didn't know. he didn't want to lose vietnam but he did to get deeply enmeshed in it. i love that and go to about he and arthur schlesinger. schlesinger help staring the 60 campaign. at the end of it bobby kennedy said to schlesinger arthur how would you like to be an ambassador and schlesinger said i would do anything i would like to come to the white house. a few days later s

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we had a lot of guilt about vietnam.espite the fact they portray horrific scenes, i think they are relatively sympathetic to the guys on the ground. >> tim, you talked about the disconnect between hollywood and fly-over country where more are members of the military. moving on, do you see film makers now taking less of a stance on the wars themselves and focussing more on the issues, as coming home did with respect to vietnam, more on the issues that confront soldiers? >> i think they are. if we look at "black hawk down", no discussion of the politics of why we were in somalia or looking for the warlords. it's talking about the heroism of guys that died and fought around them. and move on to "act of valuer" last year or the year before. navy seal movie by the ban deedo brothers, spending 13 months with the navy seals, training and shooting with them. the heroism of the individuals is all that film concentrated on, not the politics . and "lone survivor", i went to an advance screening, marcus latrelle a hero for surviving

he was talking about vietnam. andved in washington, d.c., i saw the riots and half the city on fire. i would have to say the atmosphere -- he was saying he got out in 1994. ishink the public endeavoring to get it. there are hiring initiatives that could potentially solve a problem like those that joseph faced when he got out in 1994. he talks about his linguistic skills. is joseph willing to live in the greater d.c. metro area instead of where he is living now? this is part of what you are seeing. it is what you would call bommer omer guilt. i think things are better. from ward carroll military.com. the world war ii memorial on the mall in washington, d.c. veteranslking about issues all morning. just before the start of the weekend, eric shin sankey said he was slowing down a program aimed at the disability claims waiting to be processed. joining us to talk about mental health and other issues facing veterans is tom tarantino, a former army captain and current chief. announcement last weekend a good sign for veter

. >> he was very torn about what to do about vietnam.n the one hand, there was a tremendous pressure on him to put troops in and even talking as early as 1961. >> national security adviser. >> for lyndon johnson, he wanted to bomb hanoi and put in troops and kennedy was very resistant to this. he certainly didn't want to lose vietnam. he remembered who lost china. he was greatly concerned that it would have a terrible political impact on his administration if he could be attacked for having lost vietnam. but on the other hand, he was very reluctant to make a commitment that would turn into america's war. to me, the most revealing evidence of this is bob mcnamara, they were uncertain if he would get the missiles out. bobby said, we have to remember what happened to the russians in the 1940 war with finland, what about to the british and what happened to us in korea. if he's worried about getting bogged down in cuba, you can imagine how he felt about vietnam. the undersecretary of state, mr. president, you put 2,000, 3,000 troops from the

. >> coming up, the photographers who covered the war in vietnam. to those who'v to those who've waited... worried... poked and prodded... taken risks... and lived in a state of "what if?"... welcome to a new state... of health. welcome to covered california. the place to find quality, affordable coverage. financial help for those in need. and nobody can be denied because of a pre-existing condition. enroll now at coveredca.com or call 1-800-752-6631. >>> there is an amazing collection of photo journalists in san francisco tonight. abc7 news has our story. >> just another guy on the street. >> if you didn't have a camera, you won't know what happens every second or minute. >> reporter: he's a man with a big eye that captured 40 years of history through a lens for associated press. none of his pictures more famous than this. >> this. yes. >> she's the iconic napalm girl, turning public opinion, bringing american solders home in vietnam. nick saved her life that day in 1972. >> we contact one another. she calls me, i call her. >> one picture among 200

personnel out of vietnam by the end of 1965. that was his intention. he repeatedly stated it to advisors, he went against all advisors doing it but refused to put ground troops in. >> amazing. kerry, we have a fabulous picture, an image of you playing hide and seek inside the oval office with president kennedy there with caroline, i think it was, wasn't it? >> yeah, that's the two of us. >> when you see that picture, what do you think? >> it brings back so much joy of my youngest years, you know, when jack was president, daddy was the attorney general at the height of the civil rights movement. you know, mostly i remember also being at the cape and waiting for those helicopters to come down every friday and they would bring my uncle jack and my father and my uncle sarg and others so close to our family and we would sort of go rushing down the hill and see them and then jack would always pick us up and put us into a golf cart that my grandfather had and go whipping around the compound. so it's a lot of fun. but, you know, i think that the reason people

all in ten people were reported killed in vietnam. state media said the country could escape the worst in china the main dangers it to come from rainfall. the storm has weakened significantly since my eldest peek over the philippines but it's still strong enough to cause havoc disrupting traffic and stranding chips. greece's conservative that karen nation has survived a bid to top it off to winning a confidence vote in parliament the sentiment and which came as a simple troika of men visiting town was brought by the main opposition city to pontiac which wants to overturn the government's austerity policies. greece's prime minister accused the opposition of being trapped in a dead end. he said the country is moving ahead and is leaving behind the ear of crises but you keep on fighting from within your party. cities is indeed an accused the government introducing some people to section two topics within each week. his us a deal policies have destroyed the country he told the prime minister. the majority of the peoplesoft but i did just

madam had a women's militia in south vietnam and she was out inspecting the troops making sure their jackets were fitting right and their pants, because actually they were very stylish, the women's militia. so she was out there and sort of showing off her aim. >> jon: her aim for the militia. now how did you-- she goes into exile. and how did you think oh, you know what i should do, i should call her. how did that shall did -- how did that occur to you? >> well, the first thing that occurred to me was i never saw an obituary for her, so she faded from view but she was still alive. so just because she want talking to other people, i thought well, i could try. >> jon: right. and you struck up a correspondence with her. >> i did. and we had phone conversations and at the end she even e-mailed which i thought was sort of cool for the dragon lady. >> jon: yeah. did she, was that her handle, was that her-- is there an emoticon that has a lady with a gun on it? >> it was her kids internet account that then she used. but she would have a great twitter name i'm sure. >> jon: now she was not t

in cuba at the bay of pigs to give it to suit the air support that it needed when he failed in the vietnam to really carry through a a much more in gauged process with a b. at the me he said non-combat advisors but not combat people so this was going on that he was fighting and this is known now this is all come out now not when the film came behind the scenes tremendous civil war. and fifty years later right now it is irrefutable evidence came out that implicated the u.s. government or el. the government and his assassination how do you think the american people would react what you're asking me if it came out now i think we've reached a sort of a because of kennedy's death that we went back in time i think we had a backlash of conservatism ronald reagan and all the presidents i mentioned in those clips that they they brought us to a place for far more to the right than we were when kennedy was alive this is a shame and but this is a bit american military intelligence policy security policy that has built up since world war two look the soviets disappeared in one thousand nine hundred one

northern vietnam and southern china. seems like this has been coming in, not wind damage or the the typhoon just all that rain causing all that damage prospect followed by the joint typhoon warning center but still putting down lot of rain in a lot of areas. i'll have the forecast in a little bit. >> thank you dave. >>> iran's nuclear program, kerry is now trying odefend the proposed deal which has been criticized by some u.s. allies and members of congress. mike viqueria joins us from washington, d.c. mike good to see you. my understanding the secretary will be speaking to congress in the coming days. what kind of reception is he likely to receive there? >> yes, tony, he is on his way back from the region. we understand he will be briefing looks like a closed door briefing on wednesday to members of the senate banking committee. the reason that is significant is this is very committee that is talking about more sanctions on iran and it is not clear the administration wants that at this point. it is a very sensitive poin

it is on a clip toward vietnam. as we head throughout this saturday making landfall potentially as a category 2. we'll be watching that track closely because it could get stronger or may get weaker by the time it makes landfall in the next 24 hours again. >> jeff, thank you. this typhoon was so massive it left storm watchers stunned. coming up at 6:45, bay area scientists reveal what this typhoon may say about the climate changing. >>> a former santa clara county supervisor at the heart of a huge political scandal is going to jail. in just the last hour, a judge rejected george sheakawa's request for community service as a sentence. nbc bay area's chase cane has been following the case all day. he joins us from the santa clara county courthouse with the latest. chase? >> reporter: the latest is he'll have one year in jail and he is now just 90 minutes into that sentence which also includes three years of probation, counseling, and being forbidden from ever entering a gamble establishment again. bailiffs took the 51-

and then kennedy going further in vietnam. johnson really building vietnam up. nixon continuing, ultimately ending the war in 197 # and 1973. jimmy carter beginning the defense bill that ronald reagan really building the defense. i think over 50 years the soviets and the communists had to say my god, they're willing to spend all their blood and money for this concept called democracy. and the wall came down. i think it didn't come down in one year. it came down over 50 years. i think in that sense, many people will over the long haul say vietnam was a losing battle in a winning war. >> speaking of vietnam, let's listen to president johnson speaking to students at johns hopkins university to talk about his policies and views of them. >> last week 17 nations sent their views to some two dozen countries having an interest in southeast asia. we are joining those 17 countries and stating our american policy tonight which we believe will contribute toward peace in this area of the world. i have come here to review once again with my own people the views of the america

the two biggest ones are civil rights in vietnam. rights. we're sort of living through this lbj moment in modern history now. yes, kennedy, at the time of his death, certainly the final months of the presidency, really all along in his heart, was on the side of civil rights. but it took lbj to get it through. what do you make of that, that reading of history? >> they needed each other. but one without the other wouldn't have had the success. remember, kennedy's platform that he endorsed heartily at the convention was the strongest civil rights platform any party had ever had. and the inaugural address didn't just leave out civil rights, except for the at home and around the world, we're going to support human rights. it was no domestic issue that he talked about at all. it was just the world. it is an interesting thing to read. and then came, i think he was very happy when he was leading for texas. two things, one, the american university speech, and the next day, the speech on civil rights and sending the bill up to congress. and he

a vietnam veteran is dedicating his time and talent to families of fallen soldiers.michael began the fallen heroes project. thousands of portraits later his mission of healing communities continues. >> he's a talented artist by the name of michael regan, the creative force behind the "fallen heroes", a nonprofit helping out the families of soldiers that paid the ultimate price. it's work he loves, to which he's committed, and it helps him. 10 hours a day michael regan draws. >> as long as people need the portraits and i am able to draw then, i will do them. >> it has brought his soul back. >> i draw dead soldiers, men and women, old, young. >> back from vietnam where as a marine corp rifleman he saw and lost so much. >> he was holding his leg on. he looked me in the face and said, "mike, i want to go home." he closed his eyes and died. i remember those eyes. when i start the portraits, i see those ice. >> on this day it is marine lance corporal david finn looking back at him. he died in a training accident in march. any military soldier who died gets one. no charge.

moe than 0,000 people in vietnam are under ecuation orders.heastern vietna are layin sandbags and tying down t roofs. the typhoon is classified as one of the strongest on record. in the meantime, china also basing for haiyan's hit. forecastersay that typhoon winds.till packing strong it is expected to pick up strength ove the south cna sea as well. for the latest updates on the typhoon as well as information on h you can donate to the region, go to nbc bay ea.com. >> n this morning, policeay a man from the bay are is under arrest in los angelesor allegedly brandishing aun at l.a.x.exactly a week after a gunman sho and killed a tsa agent inse terminal three. authities say that suspected is a 27-year-old man from san released.name is not being airport poce say he took a handgun out of his check bag after picking up h ggage. limo driver called to report his psenger had a weapon. the lapd bomb squad found a small nd gun that was unloaded. it was legal but he gotut of trouble when he too it out o his bag. airport officials say n fligh were delayed

i cannot fathom what it was to come back from vietnam. i think it is a credit to the american people that they for most people they separated the politics from those that served and i think that is for the best of the country. host: michael noonan is with the foreign policy rsearch institute , if you nd delivered remarks. that happening this morning at 11:00 this morning. you can see that on c-span. the bureau of labour statistics release its october jobs report which of the unemployment rate among veterans had jumped to 6.9% from 6.5% in september. joining us to discuss veterans employment is ward carroll, a former navy pilot who serves as editor of military.com. put the veterans' employment numbers in perspective for us. it is lower than the general population. guest: it is a slight up tack. over the long haul of the post 9/11 period, it is trending downward. depending on what demographic you're carving out, it has been as high as 14% and 15% overall and for some groups it has been in the mid-20s. it is trending in the right direction.

ten years before, in 1974, the vietnam war had ended, and the members of the u.s.ary were not being treated with so much respect and hadn't really gotten their due from the people of the united states. for almost a generation reagan was determined to turn that around. he had great respect for those who fought in vietnam. he felt they had not been fully appreciated. he was governor when the prisoners of war, the hanoi hilton fellows, when the u.s. prisoners of war from saigon and elsewhere were finally freed it was reagan who came and welcomed them and had them over to the governor's mansion. he was keen on getting greater appreciation for the u.s. military from the american people. and he succeeded. >> and yet that speech, as much as it's known for the tribute that it paid to the veterans at the time, is also known for being very clever because at the time it was 1984. we were in the middle of the cold war. and it was a speech within a speech. explain that. >> the text of the speech, the ostensible thing that was being said, was look, civilized nations of the west,

offered to share a little bit with us about vietnam. what evidence have you uncovered about what jfk might have done? >> right, right. first of all, it's true that he increased the advisors up to 16,000. but the alternative if he had taken the advice from all of his advisers, on i think six different occasions they advised him to send combat units to vietnam. this was suggested in 1961. i think it was taylor -- i'm just not -- he refused to do. he repeatedly refused to send combat units to the non. he wouldn't do it. -- units to the. he repeatedly told friends and others in private that he would not in combat units ever, no matter what happened, and that he planned to draw down the advisors to it was announced in october of 1963 the united states, the kennedy administration was pulling a thousand advisors out of vietnam with a view to having them all out at the end of 65. there's a long discussion of this in the book. i'd like to read you a few other things, and this has come out more recently. these are things that have been said by ge

>> it's a threat to vietnam, hong kong, and the rest of south china. >> vietnam braced for the storms by evacuating hundreds of thousand of coastal residents and stacking sandbags against the expected fury. abc news, new york. >> take a look at new video we got in this morning of damage in the philippines. just horrible. homes and buildings reduced to rubble, washed-out homes and scattered debris. some of the dramatic images of people in the area are facing this morning. this is a n.a.s.a. picture of the storm from the international space station. you can see just how big it is. the typhoon is now hitting vietnam this morning. authorities have evacuated more than-a million people in high-risk areas. and the situation there is having a ripple effect here in the bay area. abc7 news reporter sergio has more on local residents trying to connect with family in the philippines. >> as relief workers continue to assess the damage from typhoon haiyan, this man is getting ready for his flight. geese to manila. he's had trouble contacting family. >> all the power, you know, cutoff. everything. >

the typhoon is headed for vietnam. expected to make landfall by tomorrow morning.hey have evacuated people in high risk areas. here with a closer look at them path. >> parts of vietnam getting hammered by the system, the live doppler, we will show you the latest, now, can you see, already, hittingzv the vietnam coast. a bit to the north, to the west, can you see the eye there. starting to wobble. 100 mile gust to 120. as it continues to make landfall, by early tomorrow g# morning, the winds will start to diminish rapidly by tomorrow. looking at the system to become an area of len pasquarelli. it will be down graded from a tropical storm to an area of len pasquarelli. winds, 35 miles per lphour. it will >> relief efforts are getting ay area as well. >> tomorrow, a group called project pearls will be holding a relief drive. people withht family in the fil pe - philippines trying to get it touch with relatives. >> he has had trouble contacting his family. >> all the power, you know, cut off.ok >> he knows he will make it to manila. some flights have been cancelled to

they had a central dive on cross into central vietnam.ey are prepared and the government set up emergency response just in case the storm doesn't slow down and causes the damage that it did here in the philippines. >> they were here as well. they had emergency services on the ground. they had food and water in place. floods were so strong they carried most of that away. they are hoping the storm slows down and loses power. >> there's only so much preparing you can do. >> students in turkey are protesting after the prime minister promised to end co-ed dorms. they say the government is trying to police people's private lives. >> reporter: this is the statement that left turks arguing whether society is going forwards or backwards. >> there'll be no students dorms sharing. there has been complaints about them sharing the same flats. >> the prime minister gave turkish authorities a green light to close mixed sex dormitory. the government partitioned the mixed saying it was at odds in the character. >> translation: anyone would oppose their da

haiyan made landfall in vietnam this morning. it's now a category 1 storm. >>> secretary of state john kerry says all major powers were unified on a deal to curb iran's nuclear ambitions but iranians did not accept the deal in geneva. this comes as some senior senators are expected to push for a fresh round of sanctions against iran. many are scement cal about iran's -- skeptical about iran's willingness to curb its research. another round of negotiations will begin november 20. >>> she survived an attack from the taliban. now her memoir is being banned in schools in pakistan. ma louisiana criticizes islam's ban of girls to school. her book does not show enough respect for islam, they say, and that's why it was banned. >>> what started as celebratory gunshots into the air at a birthday party ended up with two high school students dead and 22 other injured. there was a party at a home in huston. organizers advertised it on social media. more than a hundred people were jammed into the house when the gunfire erupted. >> highly unusu

. >> it's a threat to vietnam, hong kong, and the rest of south china. >> vietnam braced for the storms by evacuating hundreds of thousand of coastal residents and stacking sandbags against the expected fury. abc news, new york. >> take a look at new video we got in this morning of damage in the philippines. homes and buildings reduce today rubble, washed-out homes and scattered debris. some of the dramatic images of people in the area are facing this morning. this is a massive picture of the storm from the international space station. you can see just how big it is. the typhoon is now hitting vietnam this morning. authorities have evacuated more than-a million people in high-risk areas. and the situation there is having a ripple effect here in the bay area. abc7 news reporter sergio has more on local residents trying it connect with family in the philippines. >> as relief workers continue to assess the damage from typhoon haiyan, this man is getting ready for his flight. he's had trouble contacting family in tacloban. tacloban -- taboo. he knows he will make it to there but some flight

the madman nixon proposed that he would use nuclear weapons in vietnam he never came about because he was already bombing the hell out of the place most massive blaze. one who followed men said that the united states threatened nuclear war thirteen times against. unbelievable and this brings me to reagan's obsession with the star wars fantasy and i think it was almost the most despicable part of the story was seen that there was actually a once in a lifetime chance for nuclear disarmament and he just started on it. because they were regulars at reykjavik reagan clung so fiercely to is fantasy about star wars gorbachev was proposing that we give up all nuclear weapons and he said that as long as you keep star wars testing in the laboratory rather than do outside testing for ten years we'll sign off on eliminating nuclear weapons and reagan refused to do it shots and the others were so heartbroken because they saw how close we came but reagan would not let go of that and gorbachev was furious i mean let's go right to now are we in this situation exists now we were back in that position

thats that arrogance brought the united states into the war in vietnam quest -- vietnam. >> what was the source of their anti-communism? >> i think it came from their long formation as members of the american elite. of course, decades working to support the power of american corporations in the world. communist ideology was always aimed at restricting the ability of international corporations to work freely in many other countries. there is something beyond just ideology that i think must have driven them. it is this idea that there is always a horrible force out there. that is why i start my book with a quote from captain ahab in moby dick. things, that inscrutable is chiefly what i hate. but bewhite whale agent the white whale principle, i will wreak my hate upon it. >> you also write in your book about diego rivera's famous seeting in which you can john foster dulles, his brother right behind him with a satchel full of money, and general eisenhower down here in a bomb. why did you pick this? >> i consider this to be one of the most brilliant works of political art of the 20th cent

and vietnam medal of honor recipient bruce crandall u.s. army. it is also our honor to have with us today i read -- irene inouye, or presenting her husband, senator daniel in no way -- representing her husband senator daniel inouye. thank you for being here to commemorate the special day at the world war ii memorial. please rise for the presentation of the colors and the playing of the national anthem and the indication. -- and the invocation. ♪ >> release -- please join me in the prayer according to your faith. heavenly father, your words strikes us. be strong and let us fight bravely for our people in the cities of our god. dear lord, on this veterans day we take time to remember our veterans but particularly our world war ii veterans. lord, our congress in 1926 established that this would be a day to honor our veterans for their patriotism, love for our country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. for us to take solemn pride in the heroism of those that died in the country's service. the state to be commemorated with th

deadly again as it heads towards vietnam. the other thing you want to note there is the overall movement. west-northwest at 26 miles per hour. it is going to get to vietnam sooner than thought. saturday, winds will be at 100 miles per hour with this additional landfall as a category 2 storm. i will say cautionary, if you do have any family or friends living in vietnam who are watching this very closely, the strength and the paths could still waiver as we head through the next 36 hours. all the meteorologists will continue to watch this powerful storm very closely. while it is a category 2 in vietnam, it could strengthen in some respects as well. >> we will tracking this throughout this weekend as well. the magnitude of this typhoon has other bay area storm watchers in awe. the chair of the department says this is the most glaring example of some strange effects happening in the earth's waters this year. >> the atlantic hurricane season this year, virtually nonexistent. that's a very interesting corresponding -- that's kind of

joining now from washington, vietnam veteran colonel jack jacobs. yoreceived the cgressional medal of honor. we you able to find any peace whenou went back to the battlefield, a trip tha many vetens are making to fin some kind of closure. >> it's difficult to find closure 40 years after the fact. there's nothing like being in war, it's such a cruble that it changesnybody who participates in it, it changes them forever. those are days thayou go, you cat get them back. when i wept ck, i w able to go down to the place where had fought and get answers to some of t tactical questions that i had. i was with a vtnamese unit that got ambushed. it turnedut that the vietcong had had three days' tice, had haa spy in the province chief'sheadquarters. ew we were coming, kn when we were coming and were able to set up an ambush. i got answe to ls of tactic questions whe i went down there and investigated. >> that's important, my father served in vietnam. i was born in saigo ashe war was coming to an end. ar soldiers returning from iraq and afghanistan getting a wa