and reject boys like the vietnam war. very few people know about the u.s. soldiers and veterans who opposed the war often at great sacrifice. often years in jail. and we have stories of soldiers in vietnam who opposed the war and was shot and killed. today a soldier who opposed the war, was not shot and killed obviously but spent time in the stockade, william short, who helped us immensely in the creation of the exhibit. a lot of the portraits there are his from a book that he and his wife put together. called a matter of conscience and that's why we recognize him on the cover of our book. and i'm very pleased today because though this is the sixth location for the tour of this exhibit, this is the first time all threeoeditors coeditors are here at the same time and you will be hearing shortly from david. i want to leave it at that with just one other quick mention. -- andibit in the book the book also get many contributions. entirel see inside an addition of 16 pages of these underground papers written by and for soldier

involvement in the vietnam war. panelists talk about their personal participation in peace and antiwar movements and how those experiences translate into their classrooms. this discussion was part of a conference in washington, dc posted in conjunction with the waging peace in vietnam traveling exhibit. >> and with that, i want to begin with two things. first, there are so many people here to credit. there are so many people who helped create exhibit which is now on the second floor in the atria. if you haven't seen it, we invite you to go down during lunch, take a look at it. you have heard a lot about the book "waging peace in vietnam." com, what you haven't heard about the publisher which is new village press, distributed by nyu. we are fortunate to have the director of the press lynn elizabeth in the back of the room. [applause] me last december, having heard about the exhibit and said she wanted to turn that into a companion book. and that if i could get her polished manuscript by march 1, from december 3 to ma

[applause] he is a survivor of vietnam. infantry man wounded in action in vietnam. he was an action for three months and got medevac to hawaii. i met worn on the basketball courts years ago. he runs like a race and he's my mother's age. i told him he's my inspiration and i asked him to come out here. i appreciate your worn. and to my good friends, i'm saying good friend with parentheses because ron carver. and ron in terms of the intergenerational link, to the student and i'm on the coordinating committee. organizationally the student committee really birthed me as an activist and organizer. and as a revenue solution area. so i don't come to you today as it intellectual or as someone who merely studies history, although my mother certainly educated me on the vietnam war from my very about mouth as a child child. me as a child. in terms of her friends from high school. specifically of the story she tells that she was in under graduate students at clark university and a young man was walking to class one morning, it was the last morning and he let her know he'd just g

patriots, the vietnam war remembered from all sides. war, americanass combat soldiers in vietnam. has made a great contribution for having organized events such as this was a three week display of the waging peace in vietnam exhibit at the university of massachusetts involving folks from the five colleges there and large numbers of students and my hat is off to him. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is a great honor to speak to you today. want to thank everyone involved in putting this exhibit together and hosting these events. i think it documents the dramatic and inspiring story of the greatest movement of antiwar gis and veterans in u.s. history. recover so, it helps virtually secret history. wyatt is the secret is an important problem. -- why it is a secret is an important problem. michael gave a good brief explanation for that. the short answer is that in the decades after the war but beginning during the war, richardy by people like nixon's vice president, spiro agnew, there's a quite successful effort to demonize the antiwar movement. and to reduce the most vibrant and

the communist armies of north vietnam launched a massive invasion of south vietnam.sed to negotiate anything. their answer to every peace offer we have made has been to escalate the war. and the communist offensive has now reached the point that it gravely threatens the lives of 60,000 american troops who are still in vietnam. there's only one way to stop the killing. i've ordered the following measures, which are being implemented as i'm speaking to you. all entrances to north vietnamese ports will be mined. rail and all other communications will be cut off to the maximum extent possible. >> 30 seconds. >> naval strikes against military targets in north vietnam will continue. i know how much you want to end this war. i know how much you want to bring our men home. and i think you know from all that i have said and done these past 3 1/2 years how much i too want to end the war. to bring our men home. with god's help, with your support, we will accomplish that great goal. esses, we're a reliable partner. we keep companies ready for what's next. (man) we weave security

vietnam.[ bicycle bell dings ] ♪ [ horn honks ] >> anthony: listen to me. listen to me. there is no other way to see this city, hanoi, than from a motorbike or a scooter. to do otherwise would be to miss it all. [ horns honking ] ♪ >> anthony: it is one of the great pleasures of my life to join the river of people rushing through the streets. ♪ [ horns honking ] ♪ >> anthony: vietnam. it grabs you and doesn't let you go. once you love it, you love it forever. i've been coming here since 2000, the first time i'd been in this part of the world, and it's held a special place in my heart and my imagination since. i keep coming back, i have to. [ bells ding ] vietnam has changed since last time i was here. it's changing every minute. [ horns honk ] but some things, for now, anyway, remain the same. important things, like this stuff. that's going to be good. bún oc. first meal in hanoi, and it's something they do here better than anywhere else. okay, i'm officially in hanoi now. mm. magic. a spicy,

he was the main architect of the vietnam is asian pacification -- vietnamization pacification program. -- face-to-face, and to do that effectively, you need local soldiers to assist you. if the locals are properly led and equipped, they will do the job. this was the idea for the mobile advisory teams, that will be discussed by jim russo next. define pacification. that is a process of establishing or reestablishing effective local government within a political framework of a legitimate central government, and its constitution. it includes the provision of sustained incredible territory security and the involvement of the people, as well as the initiation of self-sustaining and expanding economic and social activities. as a second lieutenant infantry officer, i was originally assigned as the deputy district senior advisor to the district. this was the district of the town, as well as the provincial headquarters. after about six weeks, mr. tracer asked me to join the provincial staff. two of these pacification activities where the cadre and the psdf, for which i was the advisor. the cadr

look at who was the rising part in southeast asia, without question that is vietnam and vietnam would be the asean chairman next year. they are leading the region, leading the loan fight in terms of drawing the line in southeast asia. you see clearly in vietnam and in the philippines, japan is well ahead in terms of infrastructure development. it's also injured. drupal talk about this. he is interesting truth about this issue. the role of india and also australian in the region is underestimate people of the efforts of countries in terms of providing alternative avenues for racing infrastructure capital for development projects, if you look at australia helping the philippines encounter terrorism and with isis threats, a lot of things are happening which are not appreciative enough and that leads are experts on the ground. the third thing is this. a lot of people underestimate the struggle for autonomy strategic of smaller countries. i'll take issue with the word small. indonesia is 270 million people last time i checked. it's almost a concise in terms of demographics, and in turn the

she lives in vietnam's business capital. ho chi minh.05 she set up the drd, the center for disability research and capacity development. the ngo's goaoal iss to help pee with disabilities. today she is known as a pioneer of disability support in vietnam. of the 93 million people living in vietnam, over 6 million have a disability. the country is largely buddhist and many believe that disabled people are beingng punished for transgressions in a past life. it's common for them to be didismissed as useless to socie. >> yen provivides scholarships disabled youth, supporting their studies at university. she also redeveloped a building in ho chi minh to make it accessible for people with disabilities to visit and socialize. the drd has supported 1,800 people so far. some have used their university education to get jobs and earn their independence. >> discover how yen is supporting the independence of vietnamese people with disabilities. the drd office is a 30-minute drive from central ho chi minh. food is the weekly staff meeting. >> the team

because intervention in vietnam is a colossal mistake of the cold war. the. at the end of the first two are in the delta by 63 because afghanistan in the corrupt governmena corruptgovernment thr in kabul seemed so much like what he had been through in vietnam and the ending is rather tragic. why do they despise them, they couldn't stand tcould stand to - >> e. told his top advisers i don't want them in the oval office if he's going to be in the situation room he's going to have to keep it brief. it was a couple of encounters he was soft dramatizing, flattered, he lectured, he went on and on about vietnam and got teary eyed and said you don't have to be an african-american to cry, mr. president, as if that was going to win over barack obama. his inability to himself. if they couldn't see the the eft of this having on barack obama and kept trying harder and harder finally they would lead them to places like kabul where he was supposed to be his top advisor. for a man at the end of his life after his death barack obama said i'm tired of being told i told richard

. -- rural vietnam. >> hello. i was a soldier wants and young. >> i was the director of two teams in [indiscernible] province. all i could do is make it ring. that's the down button. [laughter] in my civilian life, i am a retired academic professor. least have questions, how many phd's what it take to figure out how to operate a remote control? [laughter] these are not the slides that i rehearsed. this is another opportunity. sometimes, it doesn't do any good to prepare because you get surprises. i have a final group of slides. i am going backwards. assigned to team 65 and 64 as the commander. the team had to officers and lieutenants or a captain and three usual ncos who were usually in signal, infantry and medical operations. we were assigned to be advisers. roles telling the 40-year-old in their country had to fight a war. [laughter] actually, what we became was liaison people. we were the coordination steps between american forces and the vietnamese forces. there were advantages to being young. you are naive to

but reagan needs to leave the vietnam era.he escapes vietnam and watergate, he escapes the two traumatic moments and emerges dry. he is not in a quagmire. >> he makes an attempt to move americans into a post-vietnam era and this cartoon, i see the shadow of vietnam in the background of several of the reagan cartoons. >> one of the great frustrations of his acting career is he was not able to get the parts that went to john wayne or gary cooper. the heroic western parts. i think one of the satisfactions of his political career was that he did get to play those parts as a leader first in the conservative republican party and as a candidate for president and as president. >> one thing cartoonist are seldom credited with is graciousness and i think this is a very gracious farewell to reagan by the end of his term. he was able to claim a great deal of success in terms of prosperity and in terms of peace. there are many people who were worried when he took office that he would blow up the world and get the world into a nuclear war.

>> >> the kill ratio went up to what i told you it was in vietnam. the air force, their senior leadership, they would not change the tactics. we brought him down to fly. he is living proof of what should have happened. they later went on. after they got started, he retired or something. the air force kamala. i will say they are joined at the hip. they shared information. they are both american fighter schools. they share information. air force, i never said a bad word about them. they built it hundred of those planes. that is one of the reasons that i had buried with me. they lost 347 340-something airplanes. those guys were as good as anybody in the world. yesterday yes, sir, right here. >> >> i salute you for all your service. i thank you for that. they took the bull out of the aircraft. did they take the bullets out of the aircraft's that were giving ground support to the infantry? >> >> i think he is asking about the comment that you made earlier. the navy took the bullets out of the sky right sky raid. with it did they take the bullets out of an

but reagan leaves the vietnam era without being coated with vietnam. he is a governor. he is also not coated with watergate. he escapes the two traumatic moments in the american politics of the decade and emerges as -- i'll call it he is dry here, not in a quagmire. he makes this pivot and attempts to move america to a post vietnam period. this particular cartoon is not about vietnam. but i see the shadow of vietnam right there in the background of several of the reagan cartoons here. >> one of the great frustrations of reagan's acting career was he wasn't able to get the parts that went to john wayne or gary cooper, the heroic western parts. and i think one of the satisfactions of his political career was that he did get to play those parts as a leader first in the conservative wing of the republican party, then as candidate for president and finally as president. >> do you want to start. >> go ahead. >> one thing that cartoonists are seldom credited with is graciousness. and i think this is just a very gracious farewell to ronald raying. . by the end of his term he wa

intellectually, they all had two combat tours in vietnam. they were of 15 that i had to choose from, they were the 7 best i knew. the picture of mel holmes up there, the guy in the nice hat and all that, he lives in a flight suit. mel holmes in those days, and i'll include the israelis. i've been flying with the israeli air force guys a good bit. mel holmes is the best in the world in that airplane. i put that in writing. his wife gave me a big kiss. so -- but mel was that good. i enjoyed telling you about this, larry. mel -- what makes a guy that good? well, maybe it's a god given talent, but mel would strap in the f-4 and when he was out engaging somebody in a dogfight, would never look back in the cockpit. he had that kind of perception. the airplane became one with him. now, out of the seven or eight guys i picked top gun, the original, he redefined the envelope of the f-4. he wasn't agreed as an -- anything academically, but he knew that airplane. he knew what it would do. i got a lot of trouble with mcdonald douglas because we flew tha

bombing in north vietnam. as you can see, it was mr. block's opinion that increased bombing would lead to more increased bombing. another thing to know about this but is that it's a really strong graphite drawing. weapons. it's a really strong graphite drawing. graphite is a lubricant. that is what the white house is peeling off the drawing. some of it is just gone he cared a lot about the little guy. forever. it really brings that truth to bear. a businessman who holds a whip. this is about consumers, poor consumers that don't have the money to pay for goods out right. they pay over time and they pay more than 100% of the original costs. not to say that credit card bills, when they are not paid off promptly this is really about people taking out loans strictly from stores. that is egypt. he here's an example of an international issue. stores. that is egypt. he suffered a crushing defeat at the hand of the israeli six-day war 1967. he is six-day war 1967. he is portrayed as having a napoleon complex, when in r

president ford sent you back to vietnam. >> as vietnam was falling in april, 1975, actually march.s dispatching the army chief of staff who was a vietnam veteran to see if there was anything that can be done to stem the tide. i went with him and i did my own mission. this was one taken in cambodia. i saw people dying. they were surrounded by the khmer rouge. i went to vietnam and i was in a train when it was evacuating. these photographs can be taken today. this is going on right now somewhere. the turks are going after the kurds. i photographed the chaos. i saw a ship loaded with troops coming into camp monday. cameron day. the ap said the president's photographer has been shot at and that's how my parents heard about it. they didn't know i was in vietnam but it was a secret trip allegedly. so my dad picked up the phone and called the white house and asked to be put through to the president and the operator said who's this? he said i'm david kennerly's dad. i had a great relationship with the phone operator every christmas i would send them a case of wine. no one else did that. th

boss in singapore vietnam is experiencing a shortage of skilled workers as well and it's not the only economy in the region so how are these noises that are coming from berlin receive the round asia. so it's it's receiving a lot of mixed signals from the vietnamese people on the one hand yes these opportunities these jobs rather will open up more opportunities for the vietnamese people in terms of spending in terms of increased earning power and stability to bring back their families and the vietnamese economy as well but on the other hand there is a labor shortage in vietnam itself or sectors like i t digital media and finance and a lot of vietnamese people are complaining that the education system in vietnam is to blame for not having prepared them for these kinds of jobs that the country now needs well certainly in germany i believe but with this is so much competition for skilled labor one of the deciding factors for skilled workers in choosing where to go. a couple of situations that we can look at here 1st of all many asian economies are growing very rapidly and so a lot of migr

he should have a great deal of sympathy with the troops in vietnam. you can see actual political discourse, that kind of rhetoric mirroring each other. there are a couple figures that are central. >> i focus on byron angle in part because he has appeared in some other books but there's no biography of him. he left behind no papers of his own. and yet the people who work for him thought really highly of him. so i wanted to figure out, who is this guy? and why does he keep popping up in so many interesting places in the history of the cold war overseas and the war on crime. so byron angle was a police officer in the 1930s. he came in when the police department in kansas city is undergoing a period of reform. he was rehired in part of a whole crop of new officers when the old guard was fired because they were too corrupt. so he was hired as somebody would be incorruptible. and there were many officers like him but he stood out for reasons that are somewhat unknowable. but he advance through the ranks quickly. and became the head of police training in kan

[laughter] >> this is christmas day vietnam. the guys here don't ask for much in vietnam.ed if you just wake up christmas morning here. [laughter] announcer: the wars changed, the times changed, but for 40 years, wherever the action was, bob was there. >> now are those ours? [laughter] bob: you know this isn't such a bad part? what the hell is all that firing over there? will you -- general, would you call off this war while we are on? please. >> i don't know what you guys did to get here, but let that be a lesson to you. [laughter] >> i understand the enemy is all around, so please laugh it up. you don't want them to think we have a morale problem, would you? [laughter] [applause] announcer: he always brought along his best jokes. bob: i forgot to burn my draft card, and here i am. [applause] announcer: his best friends. >> oh, doctor, we are ready in the operating room. [cheers] announcer: and some special guests he knew would lift their spirits. >> hi, boys. all: hi! >> i know about your glamour girls you have taken on all those other trips. raquel welch. romy schneider

is not the right model because in north vietnam you had a south vietnam who was capitalist before being taken overin' 1975. so one half of north vietnam that new the capitalist model. heaven foreby if core south korea would still continue to exist. so, who knows what how things will pan out but a i don't think that kim jong-un, as much as he wants to will be able to emulate the chinese or the north vietnamese. >> terrific talk, chung min. you mentioned the korean war, and obviously the soviets played an incredibly important role there before a as sent of china. do the russians continue to play a role in north korea. >> no, chip. in part of my book i talk but the four powers with an interest in korea. korea is important because for the general audience, more than people in this room, korea is one of the only countries in the world where the four major powers coincide jay graphically, china, russia, the u.s. and japan. everything that happens on the korean peninsula by definition has a regional and global impact. russia is a crucial country because she put kim il-sung into power in '48 pu

the second reason why i don't think vietnam is a great model is because in vietnam you had a south vietnam'sore she was overtaken by the north vietnamese and 75. so you had one half of vietnam that knew the capitalist model. heaven forbid if korea was unified but with korea, yes you would have a vibrant economy intended 20 years because south korea or york of korea was still continue to exist. who knows exactly how things will pan out but i don't think that kim jong-un as much as he wants to will be able to emulate the chinese and the vietnamese. >> a terrific talk. and you mentioned the korean war and obviously the soviets played an incredible role in their before the ascent of china. the russians continue to play a role in north korea? >> no, it part of my book i talk about the four powers who have an interest in korea. the reason why korea is important because for the general audience people in this room korea is one of the only countries in the world where the interest of the four major powers coincide converge geographically, china, russia, the u.s. and japan stop so everything that hap

when the vietnam war came, there was no question i would go in. i did officer candidate school in newport, rhode island, and in four months, i was an officer. in those days, we got reserve commissions. very different from the graduates of annapolis and rotc, they got regular commissions. my term of service was going to be three years. i did that on the uss joseph strauss. callsign fleet fox. it is rare to be on the same ship for three years, but i was. i was a fleet officer, officer of the deck, etc. i love driving a ship, we will talk about that later on. the thing i remember the most was the tremendous amount of responsibility that young officers got in the military at the time. i think it is still true today. all of you will get great responsibilities for your age. if you use that properly, you can bring great credit to yourself and to your accomplishments. very, very important. we are lacking in leadership today in this country, i think we all know that. i have the opinion that there are less successful good leaders in our country than ever in

i got delayed before i came back to vietnam. when i came back to vietnam, i was now the civilian. a lover of rumors of me being in the cia. that is not true. let me set the record straight now. i was too good to be in the cia. [laughter] mr. traister: anyway, there was some stuff out of germany that linked me and others to some cia cell. it was not true. i went down from sa dec, the next province up. there was a picture of me with some young students there. i don't know if that is out or not. young girls adoring me. anyway, i spent a couple years there. work closely with the robert traister -- i worked closely with the macv team. there were separate teams. one incident there was a warm one. i hate to tell you these toories, but this adds life the reality of what i did. there were two majors, a major keithter, and -- i can't remember the team number now. an out board motorboat so they could go on the river and waterski. he wanted me to haul that back. driving.re, me we are coming over the bridge. a truck is up ahead. the wind is blowing. i can remember this crystal clear. this is w

but then, as happens with many presidents, the vietnam war leads him.usan: how important is it, that johnson had his own media empire? patty: very important. in texas, lady bird johnson purchased radio station, than they had newspapers, so that really helped him on his rise in texas. we have seen lbj corralling reporters in that very intimidating style, and that was very much his style with the press. you either for him or against him. he was not below calling your boss if your boss was president of the network, if the story you had done it not please him. -- you had done did not please him. so he is trying to work both sides of it, trying to be friends with reporters as well as the powerful moguls who run the various broadcasting companies and newspapers at the time, but you can see where that doesn't play very well if you are a reporter on the beat, that he will call out on cbs if you do a story that displeases him. which he did to morley safer when he did a famous report out of vietnam that showed marines using lighters to torch civilian villages. of

at a moment in the vietnam war when walter cronkite says, , "seems like the vietnam war will be a stalemate." when lbj sees that he says, "if i have lost cronkite, i have lost america." it was a critical moment in his presidency. he knows that statement was very strong. susan: we have one of the famous lyndon johnson phone calls in 1968 to serve as an example of that relationship you talked about, about not being afraid to express his anger about things. let's listen. >> i wanted to tell you about hanging my head in this hand. cronkite and what i would say, very unfair, personal lies they are reporting of these fellows. i think you ought to know that opinion because you would be disappointed with me if i didn't tell you that. i am just telling you, frankly that i think the industry is -- wrecking all of us. susan: reaction? patty: pretty heavy-handed. i can imagine what it was like for the generalist the next day. -- for the journalists the next day. i am sure he would not call the journalist in the next day. the fact that he says, "wrecking the country," very disturbing. we hear that today

i would lump korea in with vietnam, it was much more ragged. whatever the flaws of the way in which the government handled the resolution of the revolutionary war civil war or world war i or world war ii, we know that they came to an end. closures a moment of and group identity, which i veterans ofking for these almost interminable conflicts. it would be very difficult, those of us who teach history, when did the conflicts in afghanistan begin and end? we expect you to give us for some to her and appomattox. and that has to affect the way veterans are perceived, and their own experience. they do not represent a single coterie in the way those of earlier wars do. is that fair? ms. lowe: americans really like the idea of a citizen soldier, picking up and serving your country. we also love the idea of the military profession. we are trained, regulated, and especially the all volunteer force, military is stretched thin. we hold these ideals in very high stature and they don't necessarily always get along with each other. doing your two-year stint i

by vietnam, it was 1.4 times. now it's 1.7 times. that's a very bad trend, that the poor kids are taking the hit increasingly. is the republic at war? or are we just outsourcing it to the poor -- and i'm not talking about ghetto kids. i'm talking about lower middle class, working class kids. those are the ones that carry the burden. i think we've got to break that or we're going to be in big trouble. >> alright. in one sentence or less -- [laughter] what is the most important thing that you want everyone here tonight to take away from a conversation about the relationships between war and society? >> one sentence or less. >> that's yours. [laughter] >> yes. >> carl's books are like this. [laughter] >> my gosh. our country will not survive if we do not have some form of national service going forward. [applause] >> and i'll keep -- last thought. i just need to say this, because we've had a lot of current news about the peace talks in afghanistan. we need to have women -- i'm not saying this because i'm a woman -- but the studies show

>> he is the richest man in vietnam.s in an exclusive interview that he plans to invest $2 billion of his fortune to bring vietnamese cars to america. that is an ambitious plan. ofwould be leading the likes hyundai and toyota. big gamble for the conglomerate in vietnam. for will be responsible millions of dollars of annual losses for the next five years. aggressivesuch an and fast timeline? >> he said this is what they are poised to do. you go from producing fast powered cars -- they just rolled those cars off vietnamese line. he wants to bring electric cars to vietnam. very aggressive timeline. you have chinese automakers that have been trying to crack the u.s. market for years. he thinks that he can. that will be the question. is a selling point for their cars against others? the $2 billion question there. was -- has ar that bmw licensed engine. it was designed in italy. whether that is a convincing enough sell for american is the big question. , you have anmarket extensive and asked dealership network that he has to d

luiza: vietnam is a remarkable market to look at.estment has jumped tenfold from 2017, reaching about $6 billion. this was mainly driven by tariffs on clean energy contracts that made, especially the solar market, attractive for developers and investors. alix: who is footing the bill for all of this? luiza: when we look at emerging luiz'a when we look at emerging markets in general, most of the capital is coming from local sources. this is mainly because of china and brazil, who rely a lot on local players. however, something interesting is that last year, we saw foreign investment for clean energy projects peeking in emerging markets with $24 billion. if we look at who is putting the money, the top investor, not only in 2018 but also over the past 10 years, they've invested $7.6 billion into energy projects around emerging markets, most of it in latin american nations such as chile, brazil and mexico. about $2 billion in 2018 alone. among the top five for 2018, we also have actis. alix: thank you so much, i appreciate that. let's tu

it became distrustful after the vietnam war, and the pentagon papers that revealed that the governmentad been misleading the public. it was a counterculture era where people were -- their elders. we have a president who has gone shame. resignation in many things are happening culturally that are leading people to distrust authority in general. that attitude reverberates in the press. susan: just eight years earlier in the election that some lost, a very different relationship between the president and the media. the term camelot often used to refer to the time. what are the things to know about how the press and john kennedy interacted during his presidency? john kennedy and his wife, jacqueline, understood their power their telegenic young family would have on the public. when you come from the eisenhower years of a much older president and first lady, suddenly, we have this first lady who is like a hollywood star. she sells magazine covers just by her presence. she is mysterious and soft-spoken. there is young children in the white house, really get a generation of americans excited

. >> in 1965, the war in vietnam is heating up, and uncle sam calls keith's number. >> he gets drafted, and he sells the plymouth belvedere to his brother. >> soon, he's in the line of fire with no guarantee he'll return. >> he was in reconnaissance, so he went through a lot of difficult situations there. he made a lot of good friends and lost a lot of good friends. >> if keith does get back home, he's making sure a big reward awaits him. in each letter to his family, he encloses his combat pay with a specific goal in mind, a brand-new corvette. do you think that was a dream that he hung onto that helped him get through very difficult times at war? >> absolutely. a lot of guys would flip through the flyers from the car dealers and pick out a car, and i think, psychologically, it helped them get through to know that they'll have that car there, so it was something to look forward to. >> here is a "strange inheritance" quiz question... the answer after the break. ( ♪ ) at chevy, we're all about bringing families together. this time of year, that's really important. so we're making it eas

just a fantastic guy, he had written about the civil war, some vietnam. no idea he wrote about until i went, looked and went, wow, that is deep. i talked to him, he's fishing, i'm not going to pull him away. but he said these other guys that i know. but there is just a plug for this for the textual branch, there is a massive history of the army signal corps in world war ii right during and after the war. it's on the second floor, that has a lot of that statistical information. but again, i encourage you to come in and read it because i don't have it on me. [laughter] how can i do it for you? >> is there any interest or effort to digitally enhance any of these photos, digitize them , and making them available online? >> i guess the question is for me. it has been talked about. but in terms of how you decide what's going to get digitized, when you have over 18 million photographs, you tend to choose stuff that's on glass. the entirety of the matthew brady stuff is digitized. because of the intrinsic value. so glass plates and slides get prioritized. and the

by vietnam, it was 1.4 times. now, it's 1.7 times.that's a very big trend that the poor kids are taking the hit, increasingly. is the republic at war or are we just outsourcing it to the kids, the lower middle class kids. we have to break that, were going to be in picked trouble. >> in one sentence or less, what is the most important thing that you want everyone to take away from this conversation about the relationship between a warning society. >> one sentence or less? >> that's yours. >> that's because carles books are like this take! >> i think in his book? oh my god! >> our country will not survive if we don't have some form of national service going forward. and, i'll keep breathing, last thought, i just needed to say this, because we've had a lot of current news about the peace talks in afghanistan. we need to have women, i'm not saying this because i'm a woman, but the studies show, throughout several decades of research, go to the council on foreign relations website to, find this research, when you have women at the table fo

he did not admire his war on vietnam. and he loved to take johnson quotes and misappropriate them in such a way as to attack his policies. so this particular cartoon is, we've shown that we're willing to go more than halfway. what mr. johnson had intended with that quote was to talk about the peace table, we're willing to negotiate terms of peace with north vietnam, but what mr. block showed was, bombing more than halfway up the vietnamese country. if you read "the washington post" between 1972 and 1974, between the time the watergate scandal broke out and the time president nixon resigned, you opened the pages to see 174 car too toons attacking the president on watergate alone. he had drawn nixon coming out of a sewar, the free shape he gave him as a newly elected president, which is now in the collection of "washington post," he never relented. he did not see a good side to richard nixon. which doesn't mean that he attacked him blindly. it meant that he had real issues with some of the things, whether it be corruption o

wishing they could bomb more in vietnam. what i want to do is select five cartoons they relate to a series of events or particular events in 1967, something that stands out in his work. for me what stood out in 1967 is how important it was for consumers. mr. bloch did a series of cartoons that highlighted the work of individuals in promoting consumer regulations, better safety for americans area we have the food and drug administration. and americans deceased from inadequate warnings. could he have drawn this cartoon today? i will ask you to be the judge. mr. bloch had suffered a heart attack in 1959 and quit smoking. he never gave up fighting about cigarettes after that. he hated what the industry was doing. here he showed the federal trade commission valiantly. in order to give more controls of what they can say. to protect consumers. most people remember ralph nader. in 1957 he took on the meat industry. in order to have stricter regulations about what it is what went into process foods about what went into processed food

ago, we did the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war, of which i am a veteran. i thought i would wear thispin for that year but frankly i wear it all the time and i don't think i will ever take it off. this all ties together under this rooftop. i think it is super moving for me to be here today. i want to talk a little bit i go my service, why did in the navy in the first place? a navy family. my father was a navy officer in the south pacific. in the korean war, he was on the uss valley forge. my father loved the navy. he wanted to stay in, even though he was way past the age when vietnam came, he wrote a letter to the navy to try to get them to call him back up, even though he was retired. that was typical of my father. has the records of 100 million americans that have served in the military from world war i forward. in this building, we have the military records of all the americans that served from the revolutionary war to just prior to world war i. records fromher's st. louis and i learned a great deal about my father i never knew. my father had a difficult

kennedy: house at different than vietnam. >> afghanistan is different from vietnam because we as a nation just frankly not connected to her wires like we were in vietnam. keep in mind the bulk of the killing, the dying by americans happens in a relatively short amount of time. in about five years, we lost ten times the people we lost in afghanistan in 18 years. and you don't see anything except the usual suspects out of the streets. so it is way different. if trump decided to stay there for 15 to 20 more years, i don't think the american people would really hiccup. except the thing is the cost. the money. if for no demonstrable result, it is finally caught up to us. never mind the lives of the soldiers. it is not justifiable to sit there and just keep doing the same thing. now that we've seen rumsfeld's words as well as the rest of that report, going to war makes you cynical anyway. i went towards a cynic anyway. now reading that report, and reading what guys who are captains in 2,003 and four enough rocks iraq and afghanistan, reading what they tolerated in 2,012 and, 13 and 14, it's stu

it is christmas day in vietnam. the guys here don't ask for much in vietnam.is best jokes. bob: i forgot to burn my draft card and here i am. announcer: his best friends. >> doctor, we are waiting in the operating room. announcer: and some special guests he knew would lift their spirits. >> hi, boys. >> i know about your glamour girls you have taken on all those other trips. raquel welch. romy schneider. ann-margret at okinawa airbase. gee, you really lead an exciting life. bob: i don't know, when you've seen one airbase, you've seen them all. [laughter] bob: is ann-margret one name or two? >> i spell ann-margret with a hyphen. bob: i spell it with an exclamation point. bob: how do you like our flight in the states? >> it really was incredible. a few days ago i was in hollywood, doing love scenes with dean martin and jimmy stewart, and now here i am with you in vietnam. bob: how lucky can one girl get? [laughter] [applause] bob: ♪ thanks from america to all our men in blue our boys in khaki, too our tough marines, our coast guard, our army nurses, true we than