vietn vietnam!retary of defense is all about bullish bravado that we will prevail but he's gloomy about the prospects. >> until a strong government begins to function here in saigon, the war against the communists will continue. >> the more i stood awake thinking about this thing just worries the hell out of me. i don't think it's worth fighting for and i don't think we can get out. if you keep running communiscom they might run you out of your own kitchen. >> that's the trouble. >> gentlemen, this is a modern war but different war. we're here to advice and support our courageous voietnamese ally >> the most complex war we had fought to this time and i think his plan for the war was an entirely conventional plan in a very unconventional war. >> we're over here to win, and we have what it takes to assist them in this victory. is that enough for you? >> yes, sir. >> i'm going to put this in two parts. i'll be a little more candid in a second. >> lyndon johnson doesn't want to be a president who found

. >> vietnam. reports today of the bloodiest fighting in almost a year. >> we will not surrender, and we will not retreat. >> you think you can win? >> oh, i know we can win. >> these people are being killed. and they're being killed why? >> the united states has to stop this bloody aggression. >> goddamn it, we're in the middle. ♪ >>> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> mr. president, it was just a year ago you ordered stepped up aid to vietnam. there seems to be a good deal of discouragement about the progress. can you give us your assessment? >> we are putting in a major effort in vietnam. as you know we have 10 or 11 times as many advisers in there as we had a year ago. so we don't see the end of the tunnel, but i must say i don't think it's darker than a year ago. in some ways, lighter. >> early on, kennedy made a command decision, we will not allow south vietnam to fall to the communists. >> in southeast, asia, communist-inspired subversion was unrelenting. south viet

military ended its commitment in vietnam, in 1973, the communist forces in north vietnam decided that they were going to launch a big new offensive that they thought would allow them to conquer the south once and for all, take over the whole country within two years. in the end, it didn't take them two years. it only took them about four months. the north vietnamese, the communists, they won. and this picture, this iconic photo, showing the evacuation of the last american personnel left in the country, as well as whatever vietnamese employees and allies could squeeze on to the proverbial off-ramp with the last americans at that point, this iconic american image shows two years after the american military left vietnam the desperate efforts to get the very last remnants of american personnel out of south vietnam and its capital as they were captured by the north. this was april 30th, 1975. toward the end of america's war in vietnam, the united states was going through some of our own upheaval at home. president nixon, of course, resigned in disgrace in 1974. that made jerold ford into t

interested in the history of south vietnam of south vietnam and want to know more about that.what has that been like? >> there have been two different responses in them and the veterans community has been wanted full and curious about my work and in some sense the harshest critics. i am young and i wasn't there and i don't have that experience so i really do respect the people who had first-hand experience their. they often wonder why would you ever go digging into this woman? she was terrible and she should just be left as it is. she heard so many people and made vietnam which is already a problem so much worse. why would you ever go digging around in that? my answer to that is simply because she was a fascinating exploration of what went wrong with our involvement in south vietnam and she sort of personalized as the history in a way that people of my generation when i was in eighth grade we couldn't even talk about the vietnam war yet in school because it wasn't okay. it was too controversial so i think now there is more education about it but i think it's still a really har

great fascination for writers who are reporting from vietnam. there was very much a built-up image of her in the united states, but then after she went into exile in rome and later in paris, she does kind of disappear from the records. you had a lot of sleuth working and tracking her down. >> i did. i mentioned there was no obituary. there was no obituary from madame nhu but what he did find was an obituary for parents. her parents in 1986 were living in georgetown. they made the elder after he resigned in protest from his daughter and son-in-law's government so they been living in georgetown. and 96 they were murdered in their sleep by their only son. and i thought, this is a real-life? this is nonfiction? so the ministry really threw me in -- zooming in and those of us time madame nhu emerged from her self imposed exclusion to say this is a family affair, leave my family alone. at the time she was living in rome but she was back and forth between rome and paris. >> did you start out possibly, the parents, did you start out thinking about writi

they want to see vietnam stand up against china in this matter so there is pressure on vietnam to takeon. >> tensions running high on both sides to exercise restraint. thank you both. checking some other stories making headlines -- the military junta in thailand applied soldiers-- deployed last month. calling for a return for democracy. they sang loud patriotic songs. is coup leader says the army in total control of thailand and it will be at least 15 months before any hospital election. the u.s. has defended striking a deal with the televised two free a with the televised to free sole u.s. soldier. he was released in exchange for five detainees at guantanamo bank. concern of his health prompted the deal. the world cup 10 days away, a board member has called for swift investigation into new claims of corruption surrounding the tournament in 2022 that is to be held in qatar. long been rumors of impropriety in the bidding process. documents have emerged alleging the former fee for -- former paying millions of dollars for the bid. >> talking about buying 7478 planes. new zealand has agree

the vietnam war became more heated. it reached its apex with the tet offensive in the end of january and beginning of january 1968. lyndon johnson decided not to run for re-election as president drawing our political process into turmoil. that night we graduated robert kennedy was assassinated. this was just an incredible four years and yet the focus that we had with the people in my class and i think i can say this unanimously was that we had been called upon to learn how to lead to have the honor of serving her country at a time of great crisis. from the naval academy at great many of us went to the war in vietnam one way or the other. i write about vietnam in this book in a way that i haven't written about it in any other book even though i have written an entire book on the combat environment of the marine corps. it was very difficult to write. as a lot of this book was. the other thing i wanted to do in this book was to really pay my respects to my family particularly my parents and my grandmother for what they had

treated vietnam as a second-tier issue until 1963.e was dealing with cuba. he had his domestic challenges. he sent troops to train the south vietnamese army. but he wasn't happy about it. >> in the final analysis, it's their war. they're the ones that have to win it or lose it. we can help them, give them equipment. send our men out there as advisers. but they have to win it. the people of vietnam against the communists. >> kennedy felt that the united states had to draw a line against communist expansion but the soviets supported the north vietnam regime. we supported the south. >> it's what becomes known as the domino theory. if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia, laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might be defeated. >> as i believe i reported upon my return from previous visits, i'm very much encouraged by the progress the south vietnamese have been making and the assistance which our forces have rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micromanaged the cuban missile

this speech beyond vietnam, april 4, '67.ur years prior in august in 63, and "i have a dream" speech in washington, team did not deliver -- he did not the strip advance copies of his talk. for the beyond vietnam speech because of laying out such a point by point case of why we need to get out of vietnam, the editor board of all the major papers, they need to have an advance copy of this particular speech. they distributed a copy of 14 mounted the podium at the church. he was told by his people that that just a vision of the speech in advance would help him get his message out. it did the exact opposite because every major paper in the country had the speech in advance. the next morning every major paper in the country, liberal to conservative, completely rips him to shreds. so he never had the experience of one day one time in every major paper in the country been so demonized. and again when you read the liberal papers like "the new york times," the "washington post" and how they dismissed him, said he was a discredit to his

i called her one day and said hey, i'm moving to vietnam next week. i worked at a school and coffee shop in the u.s. and i've waited tables and worked -- i've been a scooper at ben and jerry. when i decided to come to vietnam, i decided ok, i'm not going to take day jobs. i'm just going to do film and see where it takes me. i've been here five years and processed six films and many commercials. it's been good. >> so good that her comedy about two dysfunctional brothers beat iron man three at the box office. the locally produced features ever quadrupled. almost every pro speaking here, there's a demand for skilled talent from the west. >> film making, in l.a., there is a lot of union rules that you have to go by. >> people come here because there are a lot of opportunities, and they're not going to get those in the u.s. right now. there's so much competition there, where as over here, you know, it's not as much. >> back in california, paul was were you ever thoses of chiropractors. he didn't speak vietnamese, but backs all speak the same language. >> t

they want to see vietnam stand up against china. at this point, vietnam doesn't have a lot of options. increasingly, there is pressure for vietnam to file legal action. >> the stakes are high. there are fears that these simmering tensions will affect economic ties between china and its neighbors. clearly, they are ratcheting up things. whether they would allow it to actually escalate to the point ,f all-out confrontation military involvement, that would have a deleterious effect. but if it remains this low-grade thing, primarily involving fishermen and the like, then it won't be enough to put a dent in trade relationships. >> associate professor at the united states study center at sydney says china also has much to lose should relationships with its neighbors deteriorate. there is supposed to be a dialogue. it has been more like a set of shouting matches or dialogs. you need to be behind closed doors. the temperature needs to be turned down. china has a lot of risk as well in these issues because it is doing pretty well out of the

in vietnam. >> we were told if we didn't agree to be wives we would be sold into brothels. >> saul gonzales on trying to save historic church buildings when the congregations are too small to keep them open. >> this is a national crisis i would say. it really is a national crisis. >> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lilly endowment, an indianapolis private family foundation, dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development and education. additional funding also proceeded by mutual of america. designing customized, individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and by these funders. >> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. relief groups this week rushed to deliver aid to iraqis fleeing the sectarian violence that has gripped their country. an estimated 1.5 million people including some christians have been displaced so far by the islamist sunni insurgency. unicef gave the situation in iraq its most severe disaste

in vietnam. and retired as a lieutenant colonel. we have her collections here including diaries photographs you can see her nurses uniform from world war ii here fantastic stuff to see the entire story of a very strong woman in the united states army. we move into the cold war and in this case one aspect of the cold war is the korean war. some people call it the forgotten war, because unfortunately it's not featured a lot in the media. but it was an undeclared war of police action as it was described at the time by some politicians. but it was a full on war. and as in many other times in united states army history the soldiers deployed to the war weren't always given the right equipment, and it got very very cold during the winters and very hot in the summer. but the soldiers soldiered on, so to speak, and held off the chinese in the north korean invasion over time. we have some great artifacts from the collection, of course the cold weather is really one of the big aspects of the war itself. and

but here again, the vietnam comparison may be instructive.n john kennedy was still in the white house, and the war in vietnam was going badly, washington's assessment was that the problem was the south vietnamese leader, and washington concluded if they could just remove him and install some new south vietnamese leader, that the war would turn around. and they acted on that impulse, became complicit in a coup in ziam's murder but the leadership that succeeded in south vietnam turned out to be even more the leadership that succeeded in south vietnam turned out to be even more incompetent. anybody who says, gosh, let's get rid of maliki and maybe things will be better, i think the question i'd ask would be who, then, will replace him, and how do we know that that person will be more effective at uniting the various iraqi sects, will be more effective in commanding an army that has performed so poorly over the past couple of weeks. i don't know who that leader would be. >> it is important to know our history. andrew, retired colonel, thank you s

he sent troops to train the south vietnam army.> the time analysis, it's their war. they're the ones that have to win it or lose it. we can help them, give them equipment. send our men out there as advisors. but they have to win it. the people of vietnam against the communists. >> kennedy felt that the united states had to draw a line against communist expansion but the soviets supported the north vietnam regime. we supported the south. it is known as the domino theory. if south vietnam falls, then all the rest of southeast asia laos, cambodia, the philippines, they might be defeated. >> as i've had return visits, i'm encouraged by the progress the south vietnam has been making and services our forces rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missile crisis that they can do the same in the southeast asian nation 10,000 miles away. the north vietnamese were very different from the soviets and the attempt to resolve the vietnamese crisis through control desolation, simil

not just china and vietnam. so yes i think last week, particularly china is trying to respond and trying to brush up it's imagine in response to a video released by vietnam last week showing a large chinese ship chasing a small vietnam fishing boat. they then ramd it and the fishing boat sank. so this new response trying to show that vietnam has been quite aggressive. they have rammed chinese ships. it's trying to tip the balance of public opinion back into china's favor again. >> let's bring in alice with all of this. over to you. >> thank you very much. we're beginning with this on going dispute between ukraine, russia, and the european union but talks are starting on monday to try to resolve this dispute over prices. russia will cutoff gas supplies by june 10th if it isn't paid a slight extension on the first deadline after ukraine paid $786 million. the two sides differ on how much they think is owed by the ukrainian state energy company. they say their outstanding debt was $2.2 billion. russia is claiming i

the gulf of tonkin, the area of the latest incident, lies off the coast of china and vietnam. the two nations agreed 14 years ago how to demarcate territorial waters in the gulf. vietnamese media say there's no dispute about who controls the waters where the collision took place. vietnam. officials from both countries have been trying to drum up support at the united nations. chinese delegates wrote what's called a position paper outlining their stance. they accuse the vietnamese of illegally and forcefully disrupting the oil rig operation. they've asked u.n. security general ban ki-moon to circulate the paper to all member states. delegates from vietnam submitted documents defending their position three times last month. a u.n. spokesperson says ban is ready to mediate if the two sides ask him to. officials in other countries have begun voicing concern. japanese foreign minister fumio kishida is arranging a meeting with his vietnamese counterpart. kishida says he wants to convey japan's support for vietnam's policy to resolve the dispute through dialogue. mayuko ambe, nhk wor

in vietnam the disputed chinese oil rig. al jazeera on board firsthand with what occurs when dealing with china. >> slipping out of support one of an increasing number of supply runs in their stand off with chinese vessels. despite worsening summer seas this boat brings provisions and also on this trip international journalists. this is the latest. >> for vietnam, it is very hard to challenge. >> clanked by two guard ships this is as close as china allows anyone to get to its controversial rig. still vietnam's boats dance in maritime counterparts. the vietnamese coast guard show evidence of its vessels being rammed, but china claims its ships have been hit thousands of times. in this encounter the chinese fessel cuts across our stern at speed. >> a rate of two or three a day. the chances increase of serious clash that result in injuries or death which would take the situation to a march more serious level. >> morality is high. according to vietnam's map these disputed islands fly their flag. but observers see china's action

and johnson wasn't focused on vietnam at all. he was trying to deal with selma. mcnamara said why don't we send in two battalions? johnson said, we cannot win this war. mcnamara said, nobody will know. we will at least fly the flag. he was lured into vietnam. one of the reasons dr. king stood up against the war was, he thought he was standing with president johnson. president johnson would say to him over the phone, they are trying to get me to bomb this. you don't know the job i have standing up against the generals. they want more troops. so he felt that plus the meeting with -- who explained to him the buddhist position of the tension between the vietnamese and the chinese. ironically, the one war i had to mediate was between china and vietnam. and so, they were wrong about vietnam. we knew it and nobody would admit it. that, i think -- and i still don't understand what hoover's motivation was, but he had a sick envy or hatred of martin luther king. >> on hoover, yes. i remember hoover sent this memo out describing dr. king. u

a graduate from west point with 23 years in the military including time in vietnam. he teaches history at boston university and writes best selling books and articles and essays and journals both liberal and conservative. like this critique of kagan titled "the duplicity of the idea logs." welcome back. what do you mean by that? >> kagan's essay, which does deserve to be read because of his stature in washington, gives us a falsified sanitized and in some respects account of recent american history. >> how so? >> well, his notion of american history and particularly since 1945 is one that we might term an extended liberation narrative where the united states devoted itself in the wake of world war ii to promoting liberal values, democracy everywhere, fighting against evil doers and he concludes that this success is being squandered by barack obama and those who are unwilling to continue this crusade. now that narrative is only sustainable if you leave a lot of important facts out or if you distort those facts. so we get no mention of overthrowing the leader in iran i

china's foreign ministry slammed the sports games as a provocation. >> this little display by vietnam and the philippines is just a farce. china has irrefutable sovereignty over the islands and surrounding waters. we demand the philippines and vietnam stop any behavior that starts a dispute and causes trouble. >> china itself provoked an angry backlash in the philippines and vietnam last month, and when it claimed vessels in areas controlled by hanoi. several people were killed in anti-china protests. the violence has since subsided, but the war of words over territorial claims and team sports in the south china sea looks set to continue. >> just a few more days until the start of the world cup in brazil. controversies surrounding the foot all tournament's future refuses to die down. >> increasing pressure to clear up allegations of corruption surrounding qatar's winning bid to host the tournament in 2022. >> the biggest sponsors are calling for a more thorough probe. >> it may have been the most unlikely country to ever get the nod to host the world cup. the planned venue for 2022 la

was between china and vietnam. and so they were wrong about vietnam. and we knew it and nobody would admit it. and that i think plus -- and i still don't understand what hoover's motivation was. but he had a sicken i have or hatred of martin luther king. >> let me just put in two points. on hoover, i remember i was then bob mcnamara's assistant in the pentagon and hoover sent out this memo describing dr. king to all the cabinet officers. unbelievable. but you're right about the selma thing. after bloody sunday when the march resumed, johnson sent troops, we nationalized the guard so that we could protect the marchers. i was -- my instruction was to send memos to the white house every two hours. about those marchs. and they're actually -- >> you can read them. >> you can read them. they're actually on the lbj library tapes. every two hours where they were, how far they had gotten. i sent them to jack volente, who would bring them into the president. the questions would come back. he just didn't -- he was so focused on selma and on that march working, it

two combat casualties were the first american deaths in the vietnam we call the war. two young men.f youngix is just 23, a special forces staff sergeant on his way to vietnam in 1967 when his assignment changed and instead he's sent to work under of the lone c.i.a. paramilitary officer. is 27. jim is in charge of c.i. pacification perhaps and one of these is provincial reconnaisance unit. they are forces that the agency to help us take down the viet cong infrastructure, and drew is con to take command of that unit. 30-31the night of january, 1968, drew and jim have been picking up anomalies in activity, but most of their troops have again home to drewrate a holiday. so takes a handful of the p.r.u.'s and a couple of navy seals and border toong the itsnoiter. same time the provincial capital was invaded. he radioed to drew, you got to get back, we're under attract. it back in. when he arrives jim says maggie of there's a friend who is an american nurse in the city. do but do these two men jump in a jeep and go off to save her. they get to her house it's occupanted by t

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and during vietnam era we developed what are called seismic intruder devices and made them look like ordinary debris that you would find along a jungle trail. if you look closely at ours, one seems to resemble a piece of tiger dung, so as the trucks and troops came down the ho chi minh trail the vibrations could be counted, sent to a listening post and then transmitted for collection. additionally in this case we have a very unique kind of concealment. if you and i need to communicate with one another, case officer to agent, one of the most difficult sensitive dangerous ways for us to do that is face to face. then we both risk being compromised. so we will develop impersonal means of communication, like codes or covert communications equipment, or dead drops. and we want our dead drops to be totally inoctober you with us, we don't want them to draw any kind of attention. or we want them to be particularly disgusting so no one will touch them. in this case we might have hit the disgusting part because this is a rat concealment and was used for operations in mass okay. the only creatur