south vietnam. it's an hour and a half. >> good evening. it's a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. colonel gregory a. daddis is an academy professor in the department of history at the united states military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the american history division. a west point graduate, he's veteran of both operations desert storm and iraqi freedom. he holds a ph.d. from the university of north carolina at chapel hill and is author of "no sure victory, measuring u.s. army effectiveness and progress in the vietnam war" oxford university press, 2011. his newest book "westmoreland's war, reassessing american strategy in vietnam," oxford university press, 2014, was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff of the army's professional reading list. colonel daddis is also an important -- important to this organization as liaison between the society for military history, region two, and the new york military affairs symposium. welcome, colonel daddis.

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

how does vietnam still play? >> it still plays, gil, because it was the only were, major war that the united states has been engaged in where we lost. and for a great country like the united states to lose and were, a war, that is a big deal. if we were a european country, if we were france, if we were germany, we would've lost many more. it is the natural flow of events. but we were exceptional, partly geography, and we didn't until this loss. it is natural that presidents would not want to be the ones on guard duty with the united states losing another war. for example, ronald reagan, will had a masterful feel for the american pulse. one ronald reagan took over, one of the things he said to all the people around him, "you can send me anything you like. you can ask me any question you like. but i want to give you the answer now to a question that concerns vietnam. we are not going to have another loss like vietnam. it cannot happen on my watch. we are a great country." all of the words that he used so well polit

in vietnam >> sure. well madam hnu was the first 1954 of south vietnam from to 1963. she's first lady on a bit of a technicality. her brother-in-law was the president, ziem. ziem was a very moral, very catholic -- he was married to country, really. so he never took a wife. hnu was his dam younger brother's wife and the hnu has done all politicking that her brother-in-law wouldn't do. all of this sort of running the fist.ry with an iron running the secret police to youth and running the political party. hnu was really the face of the regime. she was beautiful, she was well spoken.s nd so i think initially the media was charmed by her. she was so young, too. when she became first lady, she was 30 years old. >> yeah, but in some way, she -- way, to put it in this but her career went up -- went pun intended. >> literally. >> because of south malaysia and said and this is what she's unfortunately remembered by. >> absolutely. 1963 is when she got the most press. the as on the cover of saturday evening post, yousweek," "life" magazine, name it, she was on the cover of it. w

and vietnam. american scientist have found herbicide causes or triggers at least 17 different diseases. in contrast, studies by greene peace put the numbers at well over 100. no one knows for sure. >> that can be a problem for gene mutation. after that, it's become a genetic disease and can't transmit to many, many generation. maybe forever if the happen. i don't know. we need the answer. [speaking anniversaries of the end of the vietnam come and go. cleaning up the old battlefield will continue for generations. there are areas in vietnam where toxin levels are 400 times higher than normal. the city of donang is one such place. the former u.s. air base here is a well-known hot spot polluted by super toxins. an agent orange facility was at one end of the airfield. here, poison was pumped into the tanks of air crafts and helicopters before spraying. over the years, thousands of liters of hazardous herbicides were spilled on the ground contaminating the soil. in the decades since, those toxins have b

they wanted all of vietnam to be united. -- they wanted it united asked -- as vietnam. it happened to be run by shrewd, unscrupulous communist leaders who were determined not matter what the cost is a north vietnamese paid a tremendous cost -- price rather. they were going to get their way. they do not care how we got killed. killed a that if they limited number of americans, it would have an extraordinary impact inside of the u.s., but it didn't. so my answer to your hypothetical question, i think it would've been pretty much the same. marvin, some of us in the room are old enough to remember the draft during vietnam and was incredibly unpopular and the last time the draft was used. you might say that in the draft was one of the casualties of the vietnam war. volunteer and much more professional military. how does that affect the way presidents and decisions on the use of military force? >> i think in a very significant way. two points. one, if there were a draft during the afghan war and the iraq war, i think the united states president would have been obliged to cond

europe was way more important to us than vietnam. france we needed as part of our rebuilding and nato, rebuilding europe against stalin and the communist threat. that ultimately churchill called the iron curtain. we came in on france's side while france was trying to keep in charge of vietnam. the japanese had taken over. here you have the vietnamese. from their point of view, they're fighting a 50-year war versus colonial french. then the japanese came in and threw out the french. then the french came back with our support. then after the french got beat, they got thrown out, and we came in. between 1953 and 1964 we had not really dramatically escalated our presence in vietnam. we had supported the southerners who had split the country and refused to participate in any countrywide elections. i think largely because they knew at least by the late 1950s they would have lost. ho chi minh, the communists had borne the greatest weight in beating the french and fighting back against the japanese and they pretty much had the nationalist ca

they had hit dozens of cities all over vietnam.s a tremendous shock. >> we have known for several months now that the communist planned a massive, winter-spring offensive. we do not think that our military operations are going to be at all materially affected. >> he was unable to be honest with the american people, because, of course, he was unwilling to simply say, this is an unwinnable war. >> cronkite's vietnam report, reel one, take four. >> these ruins are in saigon, capital of the largest city of south vietnam. >> when he went to vietnam during tet, it was the first time, and maybe the only time, that walter had shown any kind of bias in his public broadcast. >> it is increasingly clear to this report, that the only rational way out would be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. >> after walter cronkite, johnson's popularity sinks. >> to most ordinary citizens, it's become obvious the war is not being won. >> opposition to the war

and north vietnam oil reserves badly depleted. it is estimated 10% went up in flames after direct hits. >> during the second of august attacks, there was a time of electronic intelligence and signals intelligence in between the boats directing them all the way through the period of the attack and withdrawal and damage to the ships. during the 4th of august, at the very moment you have the destroyers reporting torpedos in the water, there is no electronic signaling. there is no communications being picked up. coordinating these attacks. it's -- i think the historian for the national security agency hanyak said it's like a sherlock holmes story, the dog that didn't work. when the dog on the inside does not bark, it means it is an inside job. if there is no electronic intelligence, are the boats talking to each other? means there's probably not an attack. to me, maybe the most telling of all the, we now have thousands of pages of primary sources. we have the internal sources. we have the tape recordings. we have the photographs of th

>>> my oldest friend in vietnam.translate, the guide, to escort, and to report on me back in 2000 when i first came to this country. how are you, brother? >> my brother. >> good to see you. his responsibilities to his employers have never been an impediment to our friendship. we meet where you pick your own seafood out of the tank, and you cook it yourself. you really do look exactly the same. you look good. >> yeah? >> oh yeah. >> no trace of time on your face. >> my hair is white, i have lines on my face. i look completely different in 2000. >> people told me the sea food is from the lagoon over here. it is one of the biggest ones in southeast asia. >> i'm going for some eel. season with lemon grass, green chilly and pepper, drizzle with house special sauce, grill over charcoal and dig in. >> i have the picture with you. >> you have some old photos? oh, look at me, come on. i look like my young son, look at that, i look 30 years younger. >> my son. ming. >> he's now 17. >> oh my god, he's going to college soon. wow

but today -- today -- i want to talk and focus on america's vietnam veterans, north dakota's vietnam veterans. we are in the midst -- and i'm not sure a lot of people know this. we are in the midst of a remembrance of the 50-year anniversary of the vietnam war. on may 25, 2012, president obama issued this proclamation, a proclamation that i have right here, issued this proclamation to honor our vietnam vets, those brave servicemen who gave their lives and their families, to honor all the veteran service but particularly to recognize those who lost their life. i want to quote from this proclamation. "as a grateful nation, we honor more than 58,000 patriots. their names etched in black granite not too far from this symbol of american democracy, our nation's capital, who sacrificed -- these patriots who sacrificed all they had and all they would ever know. we draw inspiration from heroes who suffered unspeakably as prisoners of war, yet who returned home with their heads held high. we pledge to keep faith with those who were wounded and still carry the scars of war seen and unseen. this

>> i'll come back to vietnam always.is what came out of the ground, out of the jungle, the darkne darkness, when it was all over. and this is what they do. >>> chances are you haven't been to this place. chances are this is a place you've never seen. other than maybe blurry cell phone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar, after 50 years of

[applause] certainly what happens post-vietnam weakened our nation. it was a shameful time in our history and we must never ever let that happen again. [applause] remembering and honoring our veterans is paramount to our national security. this places a critical importance on always taking care of our military servicemembers and their families before, during and after the battle. the dangers of the 21st century are clear. with no doubt that this century will be equally if not more dangerous than the previous one. the united states must maintain a strong defense, impossible to do without strong defenders. for all they have done, for all they have sacrificed, they asked so little in return. , thatg they are honored they will get the care they need when they need it, that they are not forgotten and that their sacrifice is appreciated can make a world of difference. , little did we know that the coming years would bring us thousands of gold star families and an entire new generation of real-life .ieutenant dan's we have upwards of 4 million living with in

[applause] certainly what happens post-vietnam weakened our nation. it was a shameful time in our history and we must never ever let that happen again. [applause] remembering and honoring our veterans is paramount to our national security. this places a critical importance on always taking care of our military servicemembers and their families before, during and after the battle. the dangers of the 21st century are clear. with no doubt that this century will be equally if not more dangerous than the previous one. the united states must maintain a strong defense, impossible to do without strong defenders. for all they have done, for all they have sacrificed, they asked so little in return. , thatg they are honored they will get the care they need when they need it, that they are not forgotten and that their sacrifice is appreciated can make a world of difference. , little did we know that the coming years would bring us thousands of gold star families and an entire new generation of real-life .ieutenant dan's we have upwards of 4 million living with in

imagine it being a risk to wear in public -- the case for many returning from vietnam. i'm sure many remember all too well. my brother-in-law, a combat medic, passed away today, october 5, he would've been 69 years old. he was like a brother to me and told me once how after he toured in vietnam upon arrival into the states, he went into the airport bathroom to change into his civilian clothes to keep from being stared at or shouted out or possibly spent at -- spit at. i will miss jack dearly and learn much from him. listening to his stories and the stories of the vietnam veterans in my family was an epiphany to me. it made me think hard about the precious gift of my own freedom and the price paid to secure it read i felt a strong sense of guilt for being so oblivious as a young teenager to what our vietnam veterans, many just slightly older than i, were going through. it was out of that guilt and shame that a new mission began, a need to try to make a difference in the lives of those who served. in 1993, as i continued my journey in television and theater and film actin

treated vietnam as a second-tier issue until 1963.with berlin. he 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 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'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 services our forces rendered to them. >> when vietnam started up, they believed that they so expertly micro managed the cuban missil

from vietnam. ptsd did not exist at the time. i would never say i had it, but i was certainly messed up. my experience over there in the conventional sense did not justify me saying i had it. i did not feel at home when i came home, that was for sure. >> you are in the medical unit. when you came back, you did not jump into antiwar protests. like john kerry. >> i still felt an allegiance to the soldiers but i also felt after my little time back home, the experience crept in that there was nothing at stake. everybody was doing fine even though -- i came back early. i came back in 1967. the protests were just beginning. i just sort of looked around and it crept up into my psyche that this was wrong and there was no need for it. there was that kind of domino theory, if you recall. >> may look back at the family that we think of as sort of a perfect mid-american family. >> i took ozzie and harriet, archetypes, the theatrical tradition of having archetypal names and drama. and then you can kind of build around that were destroyed with

. >> they last saw each other in vietnam. what they carried as a reminder and a promise. this holiday season, it's customer appreciation at subway! we're saying thanks with two of your favorite six-inch sandwiches for $2 each! the meatball marinara and the cold cut combo. join our customer appreciation celebration today. subway. eat fresh. >> welcome back to a second look. holidays are a time for homecomings. families gather. we have covered some all year long. in 2005 bob mc&kensie welcomed home soldiers. >> when you are 8 or 9 and waiting to see daddy who has been away for a year or more time can pass slowly. >> i remember everything. i remember the way he laughed at every joke and every time it was funny. i remember his laugh the most. >> this is daddy? >> yeah. >> does she talk about him? >> every day. >> she wants to see him? >> yeah. she always wants to know when he will come home, if he will come home. >> zach hadn't seen his father for 18 months. that's a long time for a 7-year- old. >> one time we went camping. >> you went camping. >> yeah. when we got there we w

this is a family play taking place during the vietnam era. it very much is about how the vet kind of the implodes the family. >> tell me about the mothers attitude. interesting that david chose to name the two characters ozzie and harriet. it hasplay has gone on had more and more resonance for me even though i do not think me or bill played a lot of attention -- paid a lot of attention to that program. the structure of the family after world war ii is something that is very much a part of that safety, that , that luxury, the life of plenty that we, as a country, experienced after world war ii and it collides with vietnam in the 60's. >> the revolution as well as postwar. >> for the play to be sitting on that precipice is really on that now. from 1972 in "the new york times." its risingica and flood tides of human conformity. war -- this need to have firm rules and guidelines for any family or society of when things are so you know when things are ok. comesen david, the vet, in shattering all of that. it throws everybody back on himself to a k

rose: from vietnam. >> you know the term ptsd didn't exist at the time.ould never say i had it but i was certainly messed up and made in a sense was justified but. >> you were in a medical unit. >> and i was slightly removed for the most time in serious action. >> but when cause came back you didn't jump in antiwar protest like john kerry did. >> i still felt an allegiance to the soldiers but i also felt that, after i spent a little time back home, the experiences crept in that there was nothing at stake, that the country was running perfectly normal, everybody was doing fine, even though -- and i came back early. i came back in '67. so the protests were just beginning. and so i felt -- i just looked around and this crept up into my psyche that this was wrong and that there was no need for it and that, other than the kind of domino theory, if you recall. >> and you wanted to say in this case -- you know we look back at the family, like what we think of as a perfect sort of mid american family. >> yeah. i mean i wanted to -- i took the ozzie and harriet as

that is what ended in vietnam. draft in not have a vietnam, we probably would still be there.ecause so many people were being drafted that they said, no, i'm not going to go. you bring back the draft and make everybody serve, not just 1%. host: making the point that the burden is being carried by too few people. guest: it is, and there's no question. of people canage serve. many of us are too fat, or do not meet the graduation requirements. many interpersonal do not want to draft. they do not want people with of all problems, abuse problems, arrest records. they want people to come in who volunteer. but 1.i wanted to respond to at the beginning of the call, a profile of of man named ty carter, who won the medal of honor in afghanistan for the bravest thing possible, repeatedly running into a taliban ambush and dragging people out. and when i interviewed him, he said that if you go to war, and you come back, and if you are the same person as when you left, that is when you need help. work changes you will stop it -- war changes you. it should change you. if you come back and yo

both men served in vietnam.e as an infantry correspondent , and one as a radio operator. >> looking for everything, listening to everything, wondering what is going on behind into the front. it was so tense. >> both served honorably, but about 250,000 vietnam veterans received other than honorable discharges. a lawsuit suggests that 80,000 of those veterans could have ptsd, but it was not a recognized condition until 1980, so they were not eligible for like today'sarges soldiers are. now the department of defense is giving vietnam veterans who can provide documentation of ptsd a chance to upgrade their so-called bad papers. >> this is a real big deal. >> tom berger is a vietnam vet and executive director of the vietnam veterans of america health council. he said it may be difficult to find the necessary documentation for an upgrade, but if accomplished, the impact would be tremendous for veterans. move isthough the coming decades after the vietnam war, they say it is time their comrades were given the chance to

plus two vietnam war buddies separated sin the battlefield. tonight they've been reunited.hy these two fri ♪ >> all right. it took two tries but a 16 store building in crime mia is finally no more. that attempt number one. imploded today. the first attempt failed friday causing the building to tilt to the side but them they got to do it all over again. the construction started on the building back in 2013 but was never completed and now it is no more. >>> retail giant wal*mart is trying to cash in on some of those holiday returns especially if you got unwanted or unused holiday gift cards. melanie woodrow explains. >> reporter: post christmas deals include discounts of 50 to 70% off. >> bath and body work they have deal for buy two get the third one free. >> reporter: traffic was light at bay street in emeryville. but booming at this wal*mart wal*mart. it's really crowded in there but really crowded at the other wal*mart. >> you've been to two wal*marts today? >> yeah actually i have what i didn't see over i thought i'd find it over here. >> reporter: shoppers like dion mor

he has two sons who are both vietnam veterans.senting the wreath for the united states coast guard is mr. georgepolansky and mr. armstrong p daniel polansky served with the 76th infantry division during world war ii. he is a member of the 76 mechanized cavalry recon troop. mr. george arnstein also served in the 75th infantry division during world war ii. he was a member of the 76 mechanized cavalry recon troop, and both world war ii veterans are still close friends today. presenting the wreath for the united states merchant marines is the executive director of the merchant marines, accompanied by world war ii veterans. presenting the wreath for the american indian veterans of the united states of america is the president of the american indians veterans association, a korean war veteran and is representing all world war ii veterans for the american indians. presenting the wreath for the ,aralyzed veterans of america world war ii veteran observed by the executive committee of the paralyzed veterans of america. presenting the wreath

we were at war with vietnam. we lost over 50,000 troops in vietnam. we decided rightfully so with the support of many of our soldiers who had been to vietnam to have a normal relationship with vietnam. it was the right thing to do. and this is the right thing to do as well. >> senator levin, thanks very much for joining us and thanks very much for your many years in the united states senate. i know you're leaving the u.s. senate. appreciate your service over these many years. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> senator carl levin of michigan. by the way, happy hanukkah to you. let's bring in a republican representative from florida. he represents florida's 25th congressional district. congressman, i take it you're not very happy about this announcement today. >> wolf, we're always happy about the reunification of alan gross with his family, somebody who should have never spent one day in prison. however, the way this release was achieved is frankly outrageous and it really proves once again that president obama is the appeaser in c

with regard to with vietnam as a point on my ibook i supported the vietnam war as an editorial writer from 1962 supported kennedy and missile crisis and i think the whole country at one point when johnson maybe it was 65 lyndon johnson had the support of 70% of the country and the vietnam war were supported by 80% of the country. i don't know with regard to vietnam but i don't think khrushchev would have trifled with richard nixon the way he did with john f. kennedy. if you recall also brezhnev whom we all met. brezhnev in the yom kippur war there were soviet airborne divisions moving towards the bases the jumpoff bases and there were soviets here. i don't know that's true but the soviet ships were coming to the dardanelles some of them armed with nuclear weapons and be so nixon had an all-out airlift to save israel. it was a very tough time because that was in the presence oval office just before the so-called saturday night massacre. i was in the oval office and richard was right outside. nixon said there's no way i can be defined by a member of my own cabinet when you have the russ

-this is not vietnam. this is not vietnam, mr. penn. vietnam, wet. this, dry. -[laughs] -jungle, desert. it ends right there. sean penn: i see. -i, i see no other parallel. -hmm. that's true. stephen colbert: mm hmm. -mm hmm. stephen colbert: now you went to iraq. you, you actually-- was it for the "san francisco examiner" you did photojournalist work? -for "the chronicle." stephen colbert: for "the chronicle." my apologies to "the examiner." um-- [audience laughing] -when did you go? what did you-- when did you go and what did you see? -well, i initially had gone in 2002 uh, during the hussein regime. stephen colbert: mm hmm. -and then i followed up for "the chronicle" in 2003. and-- stephen colbert: uh huh. before the war or during the war? -[clears throat] both. first uh, before the war and, and later, during the war. stephen colbert: mm hmm. -and what i saw was a country that-- uh, one of the things that they, that was said to me was that if the united states mission wasn't done in, in, in, in the, the right way, that they would end up as a country of suici

with regard to with vietnam as a point on my ibook i supported the vietnam war as an editorial writerrom 1962 supported kennedy and missile crisis and i think the whole country at one point when johnson maybe it was 65 lyndon johnson had the support of 70% of the country and the vietnam war were supported by 80% of the country. i don't know with regard to vietnam but i don't think khrushchev would have trifled with richard nixon the way he did with john f. kennedy. if you recall also brezhnev whom we all met. brezhnev in the yom kippur war there were soviet airborne divisions moving towards the bases the jumpoff bases and there were soviets here. i don't know that's true but the soviet ships were coming to the dardanelles some of them armed with nuclear weapons and be so nixon had an all-out airlift to save israel. it was a very tough time because that was in the presence oval office just before the so-called saturday night massacre. i was in the oval office and richard was right outside. nixon said there's no way i can be defined by a member of my own cabinet when you have the russia

and north vietnam, that in north vietnam, hanoi's leaders ho chi minh and ultimately lezuan are having to make decisions about supporting an insurgency in the south to reunify this country in the aftermath of a long and bloody colonial conflict or anti-colonial conflict and also build their own stable nation in the north. and that is a debate -- again, hang brings this up in "hanoi's war." that others are constantly having to make choices between building a political, a stable political community in the north and feeding and reinforcing the southern insurgency in the south. so in the aftermath of the american war in 1975, that takes on a regional aspect as they now not only have to balance the problems of reintegrating southerners into vietnam, some of the southerners who obviously fought against the communists, but also now have to deal with a very unstable cambodia and have to deal with a china that is increasingly aggressive. so it's not as easy, i think, for the hanoi politburo coming out of the american phase of the vietnam war to simply call it success and move on. >> lezuan died

and i guarantee you this is a way to send more jobs particularly to vietnam and malaysia. what's happening now is that labor rates are going up slightly in china. this panics the corporations. they want other places to go. vietnam's an even cheaper labor platform than china and so it's cheap labor coupled with really minimal environmental protection. you can do just about anything you want to. > brout o helis fm meay's edition of the "washingtpost." one says "obama looking to mend fences with congress is reaching out to democrats." the other on in the same edition of the "washington post," says "obama says he willing to defy democrats on his support of trans-pacific partnership." what do you make of that? >> well, it's the typical obama. >> well, it's the typical obama. you know during the big -- it goes back. early in his political career, there was a big fight in chicago in 2006. the city council voted to pass a ig box minimum wage bill, $13 an hour. they said there's no factory work left, thanks to nafta and pntr, so if walmart wants to move into chicago, we're going to

involvement in vietnam. the publication led the press into a spiral of two and a half years of fbi arrested, intimidation, near bankruptcy, and the possibility of criminal prosecution. this is a story that has really been told in its entirety. back in 2007, i moderated this historic event at the annual meeting of the unitarian universalist conference in portland, oregon, in front of about 5000 people, commemorating the publication of the pentagon papers and its relevance today. we hear the story from the three men at the center of the storm. grand rentagon and executive, and we also hear from mike gravel, who will tell the dramatic story of how we entered the pentagon papers into the congressional record and finally, robert west. we begin with daniel ellsberg, who henry kissinger once called the most dangerous man in america. >> there were 7000 pages of top-secret documents that demonstrated unconstitutional behavior by a succession of presidents, the violation of their oath, and the violation of the other e

and i guarantee you this is a way to send more jobs particularly to vietnam and malaysia. what's happening now is that labor rates are going up slightly in china. this panics the corporations. they want other places to go. vietnam's an even cheaper labor platform than china and so it's cheap labor coupled with really minimal environmental protection. you can do just about anything you want to. >> i brought two headlines from the same day's edition of the "washington post." one says "obama looking to mend fences with congress is reaching out to democrats." the other one, in the same edition of the "washington post," says "obama says he willing to defy democrats on his support of trans-pacific partnership." what do you make of that? >> well, it's the typical obama. >> well, it's the typical obama. you know, during the big -- it goes back. early in his political career, there was a big fight in chicago in 2006. the city council voted to pass a big box minimum wage bill, $13 an hour. they said there's no factory work left, thanks to nafta and pntr, so if walmart wants to move

and by the way our vietnam veterans, were not well-treated when they came home. that is just a fact. the po whichs were probably -- p.o.w.'s as you recall were only ones treated as heroes. i'm so pleased the honor we bestow on our men and women who are serving. it is most uplifting probably one of the happiest days we have for me is the honor given to these young men and women who are serving and who have served. [applause] >> as you just alluded to a few minutes ago, and as you write in that chapter about the persian gulf war the persian gulf war occasioned the largest single deployment of women to a combat zone in american military history. 13 of them would be killed as you point out. my question is, when you graduated from the u.s. naval academy in 1958, did you ever envision that women would in your lifetime play such an active role including in combat, in the u.s. military? and did you initially favor that development and do you feel there is any need to have any restrictions, even today placed on the way women serve in the u.s. military? >> in answer to you

and the plane was flying off the coast of vietnam along its scheduled flight path. that point the guard is let down, you're going in a different direction. you're not search and rescue. you're just trying to communicate. >> but an hour and a half after that first reassuring message, a tragic realization. malaysia airlines now tells air traffic control, the information was wrong. >> we don't know where the aircraft is. our system told us it was there, but it wasn't. >> the airline tells air traffic control their flight tracking program was based on flight projection and not reliable for aircraft positioning. >> everything went wrong there. everything. it borders on scandal. the airline in the middle there just offering just complete red herrings and dead ends, it's inexcusable. >> at best, the malaysia airlines information to air traffic control was unhelpful. at worst, it was downright damaging to getting an investigation and a search under way quickly. >> not only did malaysia airlines give bad information. air traffic control waited to sound the alarm. >> i think

exhibición, contamso con lo que es the valley para la comunidad este del oriente, de la comunidad de vietnamal tanto. >> ¿que puedes decir a esas otras culturas? orgullosa de ser latina, de mis raices mexicanas, se siente muy bonito compartir con las culturas diferentes presentes en este evento. >> hay de niños hasta adultos y viejitos ¿verdad? >> si, hay de todo, me hace muy feliz que muchos vengan y apoyen este evento, toda la cultura mexicana y este evento. >> el 6 de enero llegan los 3 reyes magos, el 10 y 11 regresan aquí a san jose. >> este fin de semana en el children's discovery. regresamos en comunidad del valle, nos dará una muestra de como va a cantar en ese escenario, no se vayan. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> mira gabi, mi nena de 7 años esta viendo el programa, te va a ver y va a decir, qué linda, quiero cantar como ella ¿qué le recomiendas? >> que siga practicando, que si le gusta lo haga, me encanta cantar, sobre todo que practique y si, ser feliz. >> ¿como lo haces para cantar en voz alto y que se aparofunda tu voz?= creo que parte debe ser porque soy mexicana, no sé, es

and that is why the vietnam war, the invasion of cambodia and other things suggested were set aside. they had as much trouble pushing aside the lefties who wanted to go into issues and the people on the far right who could find no wrong with nixon. and then you had members you really didn't know about. there was a man -- carl butler was one. a man from south carolina. james man. he looked like a founding father. he imputed to them and thought they were all like james madison. they were all very serious. james man was a conservative on the democratic side. southern democrat. man was very very involved in this. there was paul servings from baltimore who was involved in shaping article two. they worked together. butler and hogan who was also from maryland. and these were sort of beforehand we saw them as average figures and house members, no body did anything outstanding. one was a plain spoken not terribly eloquent man. and they all rose. and they took it very seriously and we took them very seriously and they reached this bipartisan agreement that the country accepted. now, i can tell

to give you an example, a vietnam war vet we had in our program. when the blue angels were doing their practice dive in treasure island, he fell to the ground in pain. we had to call 911 to the emergency room. he was triggered and he had to respond where he was first on the scene and there were 25 soldiers dying in a missile. that soldier was there and it affected his mind and body and he had to be hospitalized. that's what at & -- ptsd is doing. another veteran that recently returned from iraq. he wanted to go back to school, back to work. he got in school, he was admitted and started classes, but the problem was that he kept looking around at his classmates and trying to figure out if any of them were going to hurt him and he tried to figure out what he would do if they would attack him and he was focusing on that and not his schoolwork and ultimately dropped out. he did return and he was able to down the road exceed what he was trying to do but ptsd really got in the way. so ptsd is something that gets in the way of housing and ultimately you ne

it will remain status as a tropical storm as it pulls into southern vietnam. not only southern vietnam, but ample moisture will be pulled into northern locations. this is an area we have to watch out for the flooding as well as mudslides. flooding will also still be possible due to the amounts of rainfall, about 50 millimeters per hour in eastern luzon, due to the surge of the moisture from the system. meanwhile, high pressure dominating. if you want to do your laundry, it's best to do it today, because tomorrow we have a system pulling in and making things quite wet across much of japan. this is now bringing snowfall of up to ten centimeters in north korea. seoul, escaping from the snowfall. partly sunny skies with 4 degrees. tokyo at 12. out here across the british isles, we're seeing a potent system pulling in. the isobars are really close together. that means gusty conditions. the gusts could pack as much as 100 kilometers per hour. and it is a slow-moving system. london will be escaping from that storm, but likely to see drizzles and also a lot of the hea

this is during the vietnam war. and there was a thing called vietnamization. and president nixon asked a congressional delegation to go to vietnam to look at how vietnamization was working. and what was going on. and while tom harkin was there as a staffer, a couple of congressmen were told about some conditions on an island konsan where there were some people of the south vietnamese government -- that the south vietnamese government was abusing very badly. and the congressmen requisitions a plan to go to konsan, which is about 100 miles off the coast of the mainland of vietnam, and i believe that the -- kind of the supervisor of the group was there to talk about the vietnam prison system. he said, this is sort of like a boy scout recreational camp. that's exactly what he said. so when they landed there, tom took a couple of staffers and members, got a map from someone who had told him about this secret prison, and found it, where there were people being horriblely abused. and tom took pictures of it. and tom was told to turn over the film. and tom didn't turn

tomorrow i i am giving my comprehensive speech against the war in vietnam. he replies he we will be in the front row. when we look at the footage, after he makes that speech the person who is leading a standing ovation is stokely carmichael. he has the dark shades on, but it is him. we think about stokely, he is not just an activist for radical democracy. after he becomes a black power activist, he is a full-blown antiwar activist, anti- imperialist activist and american hegemony around the world which is crucially important because he provides the context for the black panther party. they go to alabama and help local people organize for democracy. no black public officials. fifty years later we have similar instances, but in 65 it was hugely dangerous. they organize an organization whose nickname we will be the black panther party which travels all the way to oakland, california. he provides a platform for the antiwar movement that different radical activists will participate and support in the 50s. his legacy is a transformative legacy. why is that? well,