the vietnam war. and a third is pulp. vietnam war and gender in cold war men's adventure magazines. now, these do largely stay away from the central political controversies, but they still are. i would say, politically charged, because they do fit into broader narratives about things like the us military being systematically racist or sexist. or point to this is that younger may get concerned that if they write about the big they might offend some senior scholars. if you write about vietnamese prostitutes or american racists you're probably unlikely to offend that hiring committee or tenure committee that you are depending. so in my opinion, say these micro histories are have become, in fact a pretty big waste of time and resources. educational establishments, because i don't think our society obtains a lot of value from analyzing toxic masculinity in men's adventure magazines, for example so that's my opinion should decide for at some point whether we should be funding and oftentimes with state money these sorts of histories that are read by almost nobody and seem to have some sort

the vietnam war. and a third is pulp. vietnam war and gender in cold war men's adventure magazines. now, these do largely stay away from the central political controversies, but they still are. i would say, politically charged, because they do fit into broader narratives about things like the us military being systematically racist or sexist. or point to this is that younger may get concerned that if they write about the big they might offend some senior scholars. if you write about vietnamese prostitutes or american racists you're probably unlikely to offend that hiring committee or tenure committee that you are depending. so in my opinion, say these micro histories are have become, in fact a pretty big waste of time and resources. educational establishments, because i don't think our society obtains a lot of value from analyzing toxic masculinity in men's adventure magazines, for example so that's my opinion should decide for at some point whether we should be funding and oftentimes with state money these sorts of histories that are read by almost nobody and seem to have some sort

war in south vietnam, peace in north vietnam.well, that their proposal peace for north vietnam and continuing war in south vietnam kissinger. so we have come to the reluctant conclusion that you have expressed it very well right now, mr. president, that this wasn't a peace document. this was a document for perpetual warfare in which they create nixon. perpetual warfare in, south vietnam. that's right. and peace in north vietnam. that's the way to put it. kissinger that's right. peace in north vietnam and perpetual warfare in south vietnam. and the united states and the united states cooperating with them in imposing a communist government on the people of south vietnam against will we, the party that wants peace in vietnam for sides. nixon and let the future of this poor suffering be determined by the people of south vietnam and not on the battlefield. that's what our proposal is. we call on the south and we call on north to agree to this kind of thing calling them both to agree agree. i am not sure disposal i think have a walkin

and to preside over vietnam. and so the orthodox school says domino theory is incorrect for a few reasons. first, they say because it exaggerates the importance of credibility. and it is used by the presidents, they will hold that what they do in one country will be interpreted by american allies as indicative of american will power elsewhere. so if they bail out in one place, maybe we cannot be sure they will not bail out on us as well. and this is a time when they will have numerous alliances all around the world, and the containment strategy depends on all these alliances. so they say the credibility thing is exaggerated. countries don't really work that way. they are not going to think ill of the quite if they lose country over here because the country is different. and the second point they had make in support of dismissing the domino theory is that when you look at the end of the war in 1975, most don't fall. including southeast asia, which is always the biggest concern. and it is only a few countries. and

, how north vietnam might have acted differently. so this is sometimes seen as a weakness in the revisionist position that they are relying on this counterfactual analysis. speculating things that have not actually occurred. it is worth pointing out though, that both sides in this debate actually rely heavily on counterfactual analysis. so the orthodox school, as i mentioned, they, they talk about, they speculate what would have happened had the united states pulled out of vietnam in 1965, and they tell us, well, it really wouldn't have harmed american interests. well, that also is a counterfactual. they are speculating about what would have happened. had the united states pulled out in 65. of course, the united states does not pullout in 1965, so we will never know. and if you argue thewar is unwinnable, you are again thinking about how other strategies might have played out. to make the claim that the war is not winnable, you have to have some reasons for saying that thesealternative strategies would not have worked. and i would ar

vietnam, there's a difference in china. you can't do it they will never accept if an international will say this was but they accept it. so this is another thing they are more free than china and china they had also a great story with thanks to helping the eighties their start is the free market reforms but now with chuchu ping it goes back in the wrong direction. mark less state. and so there's a there's a slogan escape from china and they go to vietnam now because it's small free also freedom of speech of course it's not as it is here in the united states or europe, but it's more free than in china. for example, if you go to vietnam, you can use twitter, you can use facebook at and all this in in china not possible here. it's it's not allowed, is it beneficial in your view for poland be a member of the eu as partly yes partly no. yes because they've got to also to be honest a lot of support. money on the other hand now they we have all this crazy decisions from the commission and house every economy

in vietnam.1968, my father was a nurse. he pulled bullets out of bones. and my mother at that time was a widower who had a young son, my brother, john. my dad fell in love with my mom and littlejohn, and in 1973, he asked my mom to move to the us. and her and herfamily reached the decision that she should go, but she needs to leavejohn in vietnam because she doesn't know my dad. is he a good person or a bad person? "so why don't you learn english, test out your husband, and then we'll send john?" before immigrating to the us, my mother used to work in the family market stall in saigon, in south vietnam. these marketplaces are still the lifeblood of the country. so, i'm off to meet lylla. she runs food tours. she's a food influencer. and i'm not going to struggle to find her, because i've been following her for months. 0h, lylla! hi, nice to meet you. nice meeting you! oh, how are you? like the women in my family, lylla's mother also ran a market stall. so, we are on the side of dong xuan market.

i was born six years after the vietnam war ended. explore a country that's helped shape me. for me, it all flows from the war that brought my parents together — two people, born 12 time zones apart, thrust together to build a life. my family lived in america, and my big brother, john, was my best friend. he speaks vietnamese but two years ago, he passed away. i have a lot of unfinished business. i want to bring him home, essentially. this is where he was born. this is where he was happiest... ..and this is where so many people who loved him and took care of him still are. i'm travelling across the country, starting in the capital city, hanoi, and ending over 1,500km away in ho chi minh city... ..where my family still lives in banana garden market. whispering: 0h, he's so well hidden. it's the most incredible journey i've ever taken, and i have to confront my family's difficult relationship with vietnam. my father and your grandfather would have been fighting against each other. yes. i lost my grandfather. will putting my brother to r

would be out of vietnam by 1965.es after the fact, mcnamara was certain that this wou not have been kennedy's goal. he never went as far as a public statement nancy did in his sessions with his editors. >> what he tells us, we went over and over it, there is quite a lot in the audio and an awful lot of it in the book, kennedy's first year in office he dealt with a complete disaster. the bay of pigs. the planning for that project had started under eisenhower. kennedy let it go forward. he believed he was seriously misled by the cia and the joint chiefs. he said it wlly disaster. kennedy took it very hard. in 1962, we had the cuban missile crisis. now all of these years later, everybody believes it was the most dangerous moment of the cold war. soviet nuclear missiles in cuba. which the u.s. could not tolerate. they could reach the mainland of the u.s. there was a time in which kennedy led a group of these senior people in the pentagon and the cia. a group of wise men, former secretaries of state and so on. all of them

i think it piqued her curiosity because the vietnam she left is not the vietnam that i'm returning tols, i thought i'd be really dismissive of it. is it like this every day? but then, i stepped on to the golden bridge — the hands of god, as people say — to walk above the clouds. there's something really special about that. the most touring a day we do...serving...30,000. would you prefer it if there was a limit to how many people could come? no! of course no! everyone in the world knows we are amazing. we have a lot of things. the communists may have won the war, but it's very clear that capitalism rules the day. is it tacky? perhaps. but it's also monumental. vietnam is at a stage of development where that's a sign of growth and confidence. so, who am i tojudge? my shows me the european village, which includes a fake french cathedral. sort of feels like a gothic cathedral. but when you knock, it's more like cardboard, or one of those tubes you put a poster in. hello, hello. vietnamese people can go to here. don't need to go to europe, don't need to go to england to see this building

the 29th book is this vietnam, poland and the origins of poverty and why did you choose vietnam and poland to ride about this? >> first of all its economic freedom. it's ranking how our country is. we compared different countries and compare our times. there is no other country that has increased so much over the last decade. i'll give you an example. united states they have the worst ranking since 1995. we need to find out more about this country and what people don'tkn know. we are the first country in the world of all countries. not only the world. united states with france japan china and what wasn't destroyed by the war was destroyed by the economy so they came out the the world in in 1990 but they are smart people. this is amazing. the number of people living in poverty decreased from 80% and 99 to less thanan 5% today so yu can see what the free market can do. they call themselves socialist today. i lecture at the university and easy to find it at american or european university. >> as you write in your new book today the vietnamese economy is one of the most open and the world at t

black men in vietnam by greater dignity on the front lines in vietnam than they find in civilian society. there was a sense that even though it wasn't complete, even though there were flaws, the military, the sign of what america could aspire be in terms of racial integration and what were some of the issues that they did face? i mean, what happened is in 1968, simmering following the assassination, martin luther king and the the widespread racial violence that was taking in the united states in general started break out in the us army. so in 1968, even as their in the streets during the democratic convention in chicago along been jail in vietnam explodes. there's a racial uprising of black prisoners overtake guards the prison the fellow prisoners and guards seize control of the jail. the the head of the prison who had a ph.d. in penology. he was a reformer. he thought he had great rapport with the people who were imprisoned. there. he wanted to try to talk to them. they beat him. he never recovered from brain. they killed a white private, seized control of the prison. i mean, this just

i'm only breaking the law in vietnam.e been party to? i want people in vietnam to understand the truth that life here is no better. they should stay at home rather than make a dangerousjourney and get deeper into debt. but back in france, the smuggling goes on, and we're now trying to contact a different and elusive vietnamese gang operating near dunkirk. looks like the plan is working. my colleague here, she's been posing as a vietnamese migrant. she's now in touch with one of the smugglers. and that's him on the phone now, telling her "let's meet" and to follow his instructions. wearing a secret camera to allow us to see the gangs work up close, our colleague heads to a rendezvous point. we follow at a distance. the smuggler talks money. but back in france, the smuggling goes on, and we're now trying to contact a different and elusive vietnamese gang operating near dunkirk. looks like the plan is working. my colleague here, she's been posing as a vietnamese migrant. she's now in touch with one of the smugglers. and that

~ . . ., , , vietnam? we have certainly seen some movement _ vietnam?have certainly seen some movement out of _ vietnam? we have certainly seen some movement out of china - some movement out of china because there was a particular strategy called china plus one and so we have certain businesses who have decided to strengthen their supply chain presence in countries in southeast asia, which has been great for southeast asia. southeast asia as you know has a huge population, a huge base of consumers. but on the other hand that does not mean businesses are pulling out of china. their commitment there is strong. they continue to do business there. even if operations remain slightly different than how they run it across the road, southeast asia has certainly benefited from some of the movement in this china plus one strategy. returned to kamala harris, a lot of the criticism early on when she was put as the presidential candidate was we didn't know much about her economic policy. what do we now know about her economic policy when it comes to asia? economic o

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in 1972, when north vietnam violated, the peace accords, he sent the b-52 bombers into north vietnam, which i guess i can say the scare the hell out of north vietnam and frighten them. just tremendous. and they thought he was a bit of a mad man. they sure quite sure what he would do. so i'm not sure they would have dared that invasion of south vietnam. he was president. so i think there was i can't predict the future but i think there has been a very good chance that south vietnam would survived. ken, off to your right from a member of our descent gilbert, sir. so we get a lot of comments and questions here at the library about richard nixon and with your very good knowledge of him and so forth. if you were asked by a common man, what describes the life of richard nixon? what word or phrase you use to say what you think his life or his presidency did for us as a country. well, that's that's a it's a big question. he. if you look at the state, the world, when he was president, you have look back at the condition of the soviet union and china in the sixties and 70 years. china was an ou

in 1972, when north vietnam violated, the peace accords, he sent the b-52 bombers into north vietnam, which i guess i can say the scare the hell out of north vietnam and frighten them. just tremendous. and they thought he was a bit of a mad man. they sure quite sure what he would do. so i'm not sure they would have dared that invasion of south vietnam. he was president. so i think there was i can't predict the future but i think there has been a very good chance that south vietnam would survived. ken, off to your right from a member of our descent gilbert, sir. so we get a lot of comments and questions here at the library about richard nixon and with your very good knowledge of him and so forth. if you were asked by a common man, what describes the life of richard nixon? what word or phrase you use to say what you think his life or his presidency did for us as a country. well, that's that's a it's a big question. he. if you look at the state, the world, when he was president, you have look back at the condition of the soviet union and china in the sixties and 70 years. china was an ou

i'm only breaking the law in vietnam.u chosen to talk to us, to tell us all this, about all the crimes that you've been party to? i want people in vietnam to understand the truth that life here is no better. they should stay at home rather than make a dangerousjourney and get deeper into debt. but back in france, the smuggling goes on, and we're now trying to contact a different and elusive vietnamese gang operating near dunkirk. looks like the plan is working. my colleague here, she's been posing as a vietnamese migrant. she's now in touch with one of the smugglers. and that's him on the phone now, telling her "let's meet" and to follow his instructions. wearing a secret camera to allow us to see the gangs work up close, our colleague heads to a rendezvous point. we follow at a distance. the smuggler talks money. £2,600 for a small boat ride to britain. but now, he wants her to move away, through a fence and into the woods. hands on head, she signalled that she's not comfortable with that, and we move in. hello. hello, g

i'm only breaking the law in vietnam.derstand the truth that life here is no better. they should stay at home rather than make a dangerousjourney and get deeper into debt. but back in france, the smuggling goes on, and we're now trying to contact a different and elusive vietnamese gang operating near dunkirk. looks like the plan is working. my colleague here, she's been posing as a vietnamese migrant. she's now in touch with one of the smugglers. and that's him on the phone now, telling her "let's meet" and to follow his instructions. wearing a secret camera to allow us to see the gangs work up close, our colleague heads to a rendezvous point. we follow at a distance. the smuggler talks money. £2,600 for a small boat ride to britain. but now, he wants her to move away, through a fence and into the woods. hands on head, she signalled that she's not comfortable with that, and we move in. hello. hello, guys. and there's the smuggler, dyed blonde hair, retreating fast. so we know for sure that that was our vietnamese smuggler

did not sign a trade deal with vietnam.ut the eu did. >> no, i had a free-trade deal in the united states with the unitedav states. have more free-trade than i think any other asian country. >> host: what does that mean to have a free-trade agreement? >> not so much that even now they this was wrong. they accepted. they are more free than china. [inaudible] but now with xi jinping goes back in the wrong direction. there is a slow escape from china. because it is more free. it's not as it is here in the united states or europe. smart free than china. and google and others in china is not possible. it's not allowed. >> is it beneficial in your view for poland to be a member of the eu? >> partly yes, partly no. yes because they've also got the other parts. on the other hand, we have these crazy decisions of the european commission. how's every economy inside eu. i will give you one example. there is a part of the registration in europe. it's all of the c countries. poland is so dangerous as for my country but for us, for germa

i'm only breaking the law in vietnam.o us, to tell us all this, about all the crimes that you've been party to? i want people in vietnam to understand the truth that life here is no better. they should stay at home rather than make a dangerousjourney and get deeper into debt. but back in france, the smuggling goes on, and we're now trying to contact a different and elusive vietnamese gang operating near dunkirk. looks like the plan is working. my colleague here, she's been posing as a vietnamese migrant. she's now in touch with one of the smugglers. and that's him on the phone now, telling her "let's meet" and to follow his instructions. wearing a secret camera to allow us to see the gangs work up close, our colleague heads to a rendezvous point. we follow at a distance. the smuggler talks money. £2,600 for a small boat ride to britain. but now, he wants her to move away, through a fence and into the woods. hands on head, she signalled that she's not comfortable with that, and we move in. hello. hello, guys. and there's t

vietnam, the nation's longest war, as you alluded to at that point, vietnam. i think people just desire to return to a more normal political era. whatever normal might mean and i think that's why we ultimately saw a series of sort of shorter transitional presidents after this period. what about civil unrest, racial tensions during this period? oh, you we can we could fill a whole conversation, you know, just about the this you know, this was the high watermark of civil rights. you know, after the civil rights act of 57, which was the first major piece of legislation since reconstruction the sixties, were really known for civil rights. 60 civil rights act of 64 voting rights act of 65, higher higher education acts of voting a fair housing act of 1968. i mean, you could go on and on in terms of the centerpiece achievements of lyndon johnson's great society. and at the same time, yet, there was also increased tension and increased tension between races, between cities and suburbs. and so at the same time, while i think lyndon johnson fulfilled many of the aspirat

were 540,000 troops in vietnam over 500 troop troops. young men were being killed every month in vietnam, over a thousand casualties. there were had been promoted and escalated by establishment. the eastern establishment and the state and the defense department created by johnson and jack kennedy. but despite all that, starting in january of 69, it became nixon's war and it became his burden and all the protests across the country and all the violence on the campuses and the bombings that were attempted at the pentagon and all the mass protests all across country. they weren't blamed on lyndon johnson. they weren't blamed on jack kennedy or the eastern establishment on clifford or george marshall or mcnamara they were blamed on richard nixon. so that was one big burden he carried. the second headwind he had was that you people have to remember that the congress was in the hands of democrats during the entire time richard nixon was in office. the house and the senate was in the hands of the democrats. and so any time he had to get any sup

the invasion of south vietnam when he was president. i cannot predict the future but i think there has been a very good chance south vietnam would have survived. right from a member of our guild, sir? >> ken, we get a lot of comments and questions here at the library about richard nixon. with your very good knowledge of him and so forth. if you are asked by a common man what best describes the life of richard nixon, what word or phrase would you use to say what you think is life and his presidency did for us as a country?y? >> that is a big question. if you look at the state of the world when he was president, you have to look back at the condition of u the soviet union and china. in the 60s and 70s. china was an outlaw country. we think of china as it is with mcdonald's, mercedes-benz, toyota, apple, iphone, and everything else. back in the 60s china was just like north korea is todayay. it was a complete outlaw country with bread guards running all over the place. it was a crazed nation. he brought an outlaw country into the family of