we interview enlisted soldiers that fought in any war world war ii korea, vietnam, even the current wars. and we also interview spouses. we interview politicians or other people in the public sphere that do things with the military. so, anybody who is related to the military we try to capture story so we have a very broad holding. >> does anyone say no? >> not yet. well some people -- we had one or two say no. we respect that. but we always try to encourage them to tell their story, because each story is a piece of a mosaic. for example, our vietnam archives that has 130 interviews, each story is a piece of the vietnam war story. one of the things we tell prospective interviewees is if you don't want to talk about yourself, talk about some of the soldiers you served with. sometimes that encourages them. they don't want to talk about things they have done. they want to talk about the great things that people they served with did. >> do you do the interviews yourself? >> i do a lot of them. we have a few other interviewers. we also try to get other instructors to do interviews. if a instru

so many things came out of the vietnam war from my perspective. one of the things, i was the son of a world war i veteran, and we had a great sense of volunteering that was the thing to do in those days. and you had a sense of trust in your government. i think the thing that disturbed me more than anything else is how information from the front lines can get so distorted by the time it got to the president of the united states, that it was not even recognizable. i still haven't figured out how it happened, but it did. the other thing i think for me personally, it made me much more questioning and much less willing to just take anybody's word for it. when i left the white house, went back to my home state of oklahoma and ran for congress four years later, it turns out that in those days as bob will attest, you could be bipartisan. you can have friends on both sides of the aisle and work together for things. one of the things that i found out after getting elected and coming to congress, that democrats and republicans alike heard from their constitue

isnext, a panel of the story looks back 50 years of the vietnam war's tet offensive, which started january 30, 1968. as north vietnamese forces attacked 100 cities and outpost across a broad swath of south vietnam. also, speaking was a former defense secretary chuck hagel, former u.s. army sergeant who served in vietnam during the tet offensive. this event took place at the national archives in washington, d.c. >> tonight's program is part of a series of discussions, films, lectures and other programs that tie into our special exhibit "remembering vietnam." the exhibit is a fascinating collection of newly discovered and iconic original documents and film footage that aluminate 12 critical episodes in the war that divided peoples of both the united states and vietnam. one of those episodes focuses on the tet offensive. documents and photographs from the national archives and its presidential libraries described the attacks and their consequences but particular blow to american public opinion of the war was the vietcong infiltration of the u.s. embassy in saigon represented in the exhibit by

population now is too young to have a direct memory of the vietnam war." the spirited discussion and strident critique surrounding the recent ken burns documentary on vietnam tells us that these are not merely historiographical debates but this is a teachable moment for our nation." and second for me personally, this event demonstrates the u.s. army is a learning organization, committed to interrogating its past and the pursuit of a more effective future. we will continue this process in march with a symposium at the pentagon, co-hosted by cmh, the army judge advocate general and center for army professional ethics at west point. the vietnam war still has much to say about our current army. as we listen to mr. farrow talk about the exhibit and the archifacts, i had a moment to think about another fringe benefit of my job to be in charge of the army's museums. i'll highlight a piece in our collection that has a direct relationship to tet. if you visit the military police corps museum at fort leavenworth, missouri. you will see a jeep in the collection and it

announcer: the vietnam's war tet offensive started more than 60 years ago, with viet cong and north vietnameseacking more than 100 cities, towns, and outposts across south vietnam. next come in the museum of washington held a discussion. boughton,nclude mark a turning point of the american war the. also remarks by former stars & sts

in "our year of war," daniel bolger recounts their journeys from middle america to vietnam at the right of the war and home again. as we observe the 50th anniversary of the war, we are privileged to hear from these two eyewitnesses. the author, daniel p. bolger, served in the u.s. army for 35 years, retiring as a lieutenant general. he commanded troops in afghanistan and iraq. earning five bronze star medals. one for valor and the combat action badge. he is a contributing editor for army magazine and the author of eight other books. he currently teaches history at north carolina state university. chuck hagle has long served our country. he was the secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015, and before that a u.s. senator from his home state nebraska. during the the vietnam war he served in combat and earned two purple hearts, the combat infantryman badge and the vietnamese cross of gallantry. after graduating from the university of nebraska at omaha he worked as a congressional staff assistant, cofounded vanguard cellular and begin the became the president and chief executive officer of the

announcer: the vietnam's war tet offensive started more than 60 years ago, with viet cong and north vietnamese attacking more than 100 cities, towns, and outposts across south vietnam. next come in the museum of washington held a discussion. boughton,nclude mark a turning point of the american war the. also remarks by former stars & stripes photographer john olson, and three marines who fought in hue. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the newseum's theater. i am peter prichard, chair of the newseum and we are here to mark the opening of our latest theater. exhibit, the marines in tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet to mark the marines in tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you're a millennial, i'll explain it to you, was a coordinated offensive by vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities and american and south vietnamese military facilities. it began on the night of january 30th, 1968. and i remember it well, because i was an inte

oing your what has become probably the most famous news reports from the vietnam war. "dispatches."lled he had convinced esquire vietnam to send him to to write sort of periodic, very unconventional essays about the war. number of pent a years putting himself in the ost dangerous places in vietnam, and writing first hand about the fighting. he was also a tremendously skilled it was fascinating to me because he was such a gifted writer. he was writing about situations i was writing about. at nailing down fax, naming names. for the first time, having read the reporting, i was able to put his reports in context. he is talking about war and about war. from a documentary called "first i am a niceout middle-class jewish boy. i am not john wayne junior. i have a strong attraction to war. i was satisfied. very few people, doing these things without they believe is a good reason. you would see guys that would come up and say, why are you here? kill gooks. they got into it and they liked it. >> what you think? >> i think he is talking honestly and candidly. he is different in that he was a br

and term erefore, by '68, the law and order became popular in the american political scene the vietnam war accelerated. >> our phone lines are open. area code. 748-8900 for those in the eastern or central time zones. 748-8901.or pacific, live here on c-span 3 american history tv. studied this generation of americans, your predecessors, what questions do you have? i like to sort of ask, so what thinking? my work, my most recent work, of history of n the racist ideas, anti-racist ideas. i'm fundamentally concerned they thinking? how were they trying to understand their nation, their world? nation in a world of inequities everywhere. explain they looking to this. you had some americans who were inequities, these protests, these rebellions on the people. with was something wrong people. these people were lazy, these dangerous. then you had americans who found who felt the problem was policy, was structure. the problem was american. sort of see and i continuously ask questions about between the split problem as policy. still see that split in america today. >> why was there, why is there americ

>>> this tuesday is the 50g9 anniversary of the start of the vietnam war's tet offensive where vietcong and north vietnamese attacked across south vietnam. we're going live to hear from vietnam veterans who will look back at the battle of hue, where some of the most intense fighting took place. mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." we are live. >> we're waiting for this discussion on the vietnam war's tet offensive to get under way. participating in the discussion tonight, mark bowden, the author of "hue 1968," former stars & stripes combat photographer john olson and three marines who fought in hue. >>> stand up for freedom, knowing we'll be free one day. ♪ >> i always think of the newseum as the home of freedom. >> i don't know where this nation would be. i don't know where i would be today without the guarantees of the first amendment. >> there's a war against information. there's a battle over who controls information. >> what a democracy should do in talk about it. >> engage in the news. be a citizen of the world. give a damn. ♪ >> we must come to se

interview with the vietnam on sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3. war tetr: the vietnam's offensive started more than 60 years ago with viet cong and , north vietnamese attacked more than 100 cities, towns, and outposts across south vietnam. we are going live as vietnam veterans look back at the battle of hue where some of the most intense fighting of the campaign took place. mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." plus former stars & stripes , photographer john olson, and also three marines who fought in hue. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the newseum's theater. i am peter prichard, chair of the newseum and we are here to mark the opening of our latest inibit, the marines and -- tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you're a millennial, i will explain it. it was a coordinated offensive by viet cong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities, and american and south vietnamese military facilities. it began on the night of janua

we're here to mark the marines in tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war.his is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if you're a millennial, i'll explain it to you, was a coordinated offensive by vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities and american and south vietnamese military facilities. it began on the night of january 30th, 1968. and i remember it well, because i was an intelligence clerk with mac fee at the time. our exhibit showcases the work of john olson who, like me, was a young army draftee. he was a photographer for "stars & stripes," the military's daily newspaper. and he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. this innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs and ten tactile versions of these photos with touch activated sensors that trigger interviews. this enables blind and low-vision visitors to experience the images through touch and sound and the newseum is the first museum in

and the democratic convention in chicago and the nomination fights in both party all against the vietnam war and civil rights movement. it's a watershed event. we started to talk for those of you that are regulars you may have noticed earlier than usual because he does need to get back to the studio for his show so to keep things moving along when they reached the signing he will not be able to provide a personalization that he is looking forward to being here this evening and answering questions. thanks for your understanding and please join me in welcoming lawrence o'donnell. [applause] thank you very much. standing room only, this is amazing. i can't believe it. i'm going to be quick because you're standing back there you're going to get aboard more than these people will. so because we have to be heard way back in the standing room we have a live tv show and a little over three hours and tonight, just tonight, don't judge tonight's show. it's going to berat be written n about eight minutes. it's going to be something off the top of my head. the unfortunate thing tonight i won't be compar

the vietnam war, the civil rights movement. 50 years later how are we doing, especially in regards to civil rights? >> we have experienced a simultaneous history, dual history. we experienced the history of racial progress. of course, i think we can look at obama as one of the signifiers of racial progress for a certain segment of people of color, of the african-american community. the nation has also experienced the progression of racism. the progression of racism that i would argue was critical in the election of our current president. >> what do you mean? >> racist policies get more sophisticated. what i mean by sophisticated is it becomes more difficult for concerned americans to see, to identify, to counteract policies that are discriminating against particular groups of people. for example, the voter id law, targeting african-american "oters with "surgical precision as the north carolina court stated is a more sophisticated form of oppression then a grandfather clause or a poll tax . that is what i mean by racist progress. >> let's get to the phone calls. we are live in washingt

five us presidents misled the public about the background of the vietnam war and kept the truth hidden. if you publish the supreme court next. thing. with you could all go to prison. bradley has to convince his publisher kay graham of the need to make the papers public if she goes ahead it could mean the end of the newspaper. people are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper which does not supposed to make the tough choices. thank you arthur for your frankness there were very few women in business very few women in law there was no one on the supreme court there was. women were still a little bit invisible at that point in time and the focus of history came to rest on this particular woman's shoulders that hollywood has always been fascinated by the work of investigative journalists in all the president's men dustin hoffman and robert redford uncover the watergate scandal which led president richard nixon to resign from office. one zero. plays a journalist who convinces russell crowe an insider from the tobacco industry to turn whistleblower on t.v. exposing how cigarett

war. there are thousands of families living in vietnam today who wouldn't be there if the war had continued for another year or two. or three. the last word about jean mccarthy should always be that no one did more to stop the killing in vietnam than senator eugene mccarthy.if i have to run for president to do it, i'm going to do it. senator eugene mccarthy, august 17, 1967. [applause] >> this question is about jean mccarthy and his counterpart ernie sanders who you pointed out is our version. i was one of those people who went door to door for jean mccarthy and like young people today who've gone door-to-door for bernie sanders and he's also opened up the protest and the possibility for the future for young people and we see what happens in virginia as a result of the women's mart and as a result of what bernie did so in the same way, you have so much accolades for jean mccarthy, my question is why doesn't msnbc and other mainstream news stations cover the alternative to the establishment point of view? virginia took everybody by surprise and these were all first-time candidates who were i

he discusses his book, "hue 1968: a turning point of the american war in vietnam." ian: mark bowden, hue, what was it? mark: a city in the war, the -- the scene of probably the biggest, bloodiest battle fought in the vietnam war. or with the the enemies call the , american vietnam war. brian: how did you approach this differently? mark: this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet -- vietnamese participants. i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and -- who fought and also the vietnamese viet cong. i think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives and hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archives. there are also the records of the johnson administration at the lbj library. all of william westmoreland's papers are there. johnson's national security council staff papers. so 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. the record is established. the participants are still alive. brian: in the early part of the book you say the battle woul

king proclaimed that the vietnam war was morally injustice -- injust. he pointed out that profit had become more important to the government than people. who were sacrificing their lives overseas. conservatives once again attacked dr. king. they said he was being slanderous and that he was tragically misleading people. now, mr. speaker, you see the great outcry and support that we have for our soldiers and our military people now in this country. we honor and revere them now. that came out of the struggle of the vietnam war, where they were spat on and told that they weren't worth anything. that's where it came from dr. king bringing up the unjust war that this was. so out of dr. king protests against the vietnam war, we began a great reverence for our soldiers once again. and that's what we see now in the streets when we see a vietnam vet. and we tell them thank you for their service. or whether they were in afghanistan, thank you for their service. it was dr. king who first raised that issue. they told him to be quiet and to know his place. but like d

in our year of war, daniel recounts journey from middle america to vietnam at the height of the war and then home again. as we observed 50th anniversary of the war, privileged to hear are from these two eyewitnesses. the author daniel -- served in u.s. army for 35 years retiring as a lieutenant general. he commanded troops in both afghanistan and iraq, earning five bronze star medals one for valor and combat action badge he's a contradicting editor for army magazine and author of eight other books he currently teaches history at north carolina state university. chuck hagel has long served our country. he was secretary of defense from 2013 to 2015. and before that, a u u.s. senator from his home state nebraska during the vietnam war he served in combat as a sergeant in the u.s. army and earned two purple hearts. the combat infantryman badging and the vet that he's cross and after graduating at omaha he was a congressional and served as document head of the u.s. veterans administration, and cam to president and chief executive officer of the rks so. he's the author of america our next cha

. >>> next week marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the vietnam war's offensive of vietcong and north vietnamese attack on more than 100 cities, towns and outposts across south vietnam. next we'll hear from mark boweden and three former u.s. marine who's fought during the offensive. >> good evening, everyone. and welcome to the museum's theater. i'm the chair of the museum and we're here to mark the opening of our latest exist. this is almost the 50th anniversary of the tett offensive, which is if you're a milli millennial, i'll explain it to you. a coordinated offensive between the vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns and cities and american and south vietnamese facilities. it began on the night of january 30th, 1968, and i remember it well because i was an intelligence clerk with mack v. at the time. our new exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who like me was a young army draftee. john was a photographer for stars and stripes, the military's daily newspaper, and he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue

withdrew from the presidential race. >> i pledge to you we shall have an honorable end to the war in vietnamichard nixon won the election promising peace with honor. the public had been led to believe that he had a secret plan to end the war. >> kessinger was talking about the need to get out of vietnam with a decent interval. that was quite a radical point of view for an establishment person at that time to say we should be out and all we ask is that they not embarrass us by taking it over immediately. that was led in me but in nearly everybody to the false impression that presumably nixon agreed with it. nixon didn't agree with that for a minute. i had given a set of options to kissinger. i drafted six or seven alternative approaches to consider. he at one point said, dan, you don't have a win option. i said, well, i don't think there is a win option. i said, you could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter. but until they left. you can use nuclear weapons and kill all the people. i wouldn't call that a win. so as far as i see, there is no way to win. i took that op

the principles of peace in vietnam and opposition to the japanese government's complicity in the vietnam war. each group would be responsible for their own policies and communicating across the network. groups like this formed the basis for the explosive spread of the nonsectarian all caps is joint structure -- joint campus committees. in these groups emerged 1968. proliferated across hundreds of university campuses. more than 67 campus seizures. it was in kyoto -- they called for their own self negation. two and its furtherance of domination. this 1968, in the sense of a global movement truly begins in the space of restraint policing and daily eventful miss, diminished state legitimacy and intensified concern to the wrongs such legitimacy perfectly concealed your and far. this politics inaugurated new personalts with reflections to bring forth new actions and collective identification. at this level, i think we should consider the questions of comparability of how such politics become thinkable and of the proper approach to address the nature of this politics. thatld finally argue grasping

he had done war in vietnam. poverty is equally violent in his worldview. n opportunity to make an explicit witness on the third leg of what he called the agent triple scourge of racism, poverty, and war, i think was something that he knew he needed to do to make his message complete. he had been speaking, but had not been demonstrating on poverty. amy: let's move on to memphis. not the final moment of memphis, but in two parts. again, we're talking about you nor mr. jim within the sclc and dr. king's closest advisers being concerned about king going to memphis. here been invited to stand with the sanitation workers as they tried to unionize. >> i will talk a little bit about the origins of memphis. -- the film shows it took an enormous effort to get the staff behind the poor people's campaign. some people said, if you do not end the vietnam war, doesn't matter what we do. others said we still have segregation in the south and north and we should be on race relations. he finally gets them going on the poor people's campaign and their plans, then this inciden

afterwards sunday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> now back to our programming on the vietnam war, and the lessons learned from it. two former members of congress who served in the war spoke on a panel at the national archives in washington, d.c. this is about 90 minutes. >>> now i ask all the vietnam veterans or any united states veteran who served on active duty in the united states armed forces, anytime during the period november 1st, 1955, to may 15th, 1975, the vietnam era to stand and be recognized. [ applause ] >>> veterans, as you exit, staff and volunteers will present each of you with a vietnam veteran lapel pin. the united states of america vietnam war commemoration is

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announcer: watch the entire interview with the vietnam on sunday at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span3. warr: the vietnam's offensive started more than 60 years ago with viet cong and , north vietnamese attacked more than 100 cities, towns, and outposts across south vietnam. we are going live as vietnam veterans look back at the battle of hue where some of the most intense fighting of the campaign took place. mark bowden will join the discussion. he is the author of "hue 1968." plus former stars & stripes , photographer john olson, and also three marines who fought in hue.

king proclaimed that the vietnam war was morally injustice -- injust. he pointed out that profit had become more important to the government than people. who were sacrificing their lives overseas. conservatives once again attacked dr. king. they said he was being slanderous and that he was tragically misleading people. now, mr. speaker, you see the great outcry and support that we have for our soldiers and our military people now in this country. we honor and revere them now. that came out of the struggle of the vietnam war, where they were spat on and told that they weren't worth anything. that's where it came from dr. king bringing up the unjust war that this was. so out of dr. king protests against the vietnam war, we began a great reverence for our soldiers once again. and that's what we see now in the streets when we see a vietnam vet. and we tell them thank you for their service. or whether they were in afghanistan, thank you for their service. it was dr. king who first raised that issue. they told him to be quiet and to know his place. but like d

once he came out of the vietnam war and started saying some controversial things at that time about thear, one would take a deep breath is the target got bigger. and not long after that, he was assassinated. >> do you feel like the holiday now that we have been celebrating it as this many years as a holiday and it is strike to see the president not acknowledging it in any way today or not doing any public service the way other presidents have. do you feel the holiday as appreciating him as a full, in the fullness of his being. you publicized this portion of "what yunites us today." >> i am not sure this holiday looks by as time goes on. as a national holiday, the fact that the president of the united states, he did not pay service to it, i think going forward to keep it to be a true national holiday is going to require a continued struggle. i hope i am wrong about that. >> dan rather, the host of the big interview of access tv and the author of "what unites us." >> thank you for your time >> thank you so much. >> still to come tonight, a couple of questions, we are trying desperately to

what, what, we were put through. >> the vietnam war still rears its ugly head. hiding no longer. >> dr. katz. >> 50 years after teteu. marine on the tank says team to see the war more clearly. >> i'm hoping that, that the public can embrace the war now. and they can learn exactly what happened and what went on and -- and that -- that we had many, many, many do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or... ...one that's good for my teeth? now i don't have to choose! from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. it's our best whitening technology. plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. crest. healthy, beautiful smiles for life. >>> latest fitness trend involves barnyard animals. goat yoga. >> typical sunday at laughing frog yoga studio in santa monica, california. yoga enthusiasts are lined up. mal mats in hand, ready to go. >> good to go. >> but this particular class can't start until 2 of the most adorable participants show up. come on, guys. >> floyd and rosco. >> want to do yoga. >> really funny creatures. they're affection that. social.

next week marks the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war's tet offensive and tonight during american history tv prime time and the oral history of west point graduates who served in the vietnam war and it starts here on c-span3. >> the president of the united states. >>> tuesday night, president donald trump gives his first state of the union address to congress and the nation, join c-span for a preview of the evening starting at 8:00 eastern and then the state of the union speech live at 9:00 p.m. following the speech, the democratic response. we will also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. president trump's state of the union address tuesday night live on c-span. listen live with the free c-span radio app and available live or on demand on the desktop, phone or tablet at c-span.org. >>> up next, we'll hear the supreme court oral argument in byrd v. united states. the case hinges on the driver's right to a reasonable expectation of privacy. the court is deciding if that extends to a rental car that the driver did not rent and is not authorized to operate under the ren

university to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. in 1970, we became an independent fully accredited university that is part of the university system of maryland. and over the years, our legendary faculty have travelled overseas to teach boots on the ground classes in the war zones of cost owe vo, iraq, and afghanistan. today we go where the military goes. our story is important because it is at the core of who we are as a university. today, we are the largest public online university offering four year degrees in the united states. we enroll 90,000 students annually in more than -- excuse me, in more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificate programs, specializations and even micro masters programs. in fall 2017, we served 50,000 active duty military service members, reservists, veterans and their dependents. we have been ranked this year as number one for online and non-traditional schools for military and we offer career relevant programs that use project-based learning to make real world competent graduates.

and was there from the very beginning of the vietnam war. lew over the scene of the gulf of tonkin incident, and later on was shot down over north vietnam and became the senior american prisoner of war. issuing orders to the other prisoners of war to conduct themselves with as much composer as possible in the difficult circumstances that they faced in the hanoi hilton. among others, john mccain was with admiral stockdale in the hanoi hilton. for their service, admiral stockdale as the senior p.o.w. received the medal of honor in 1973 for his heroic service while in captivity. later on he came to the united states naval war college as president. was instrumental in the delivery of educational content for the purposes of informing our future strategy. united states naval war college here in newport is really the center of the u.s. navy of the 21st century. it is through these doors from 1884 to the present day that the great american naval thinkers came through to learn about their profession. the other thing we teach at the naval war college i

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of synthetic drugs in the evening at 7:00 p.m., the events marking the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war tet offensive. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, live every day, with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, we will discuss missing text messages between an fbi agent and attorney. and the trump administration's plan to allow gas pumps in the u.s. coastal waters. the national resource defense council member join us. we are live in columbia, south carolina for the next thousand city capitals to her, as the governor will discuss public policy issues. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. lacks -- >> asked, we returned to the washington d c convention center where the science and transportation committee held a hearing yesterday. they looked at emerging innovations in the automotive industry. this is about two hours. the privileges of leading a committee with a jurisdiction as broad of that as the commerce committee, sometimes our work takes us off capitol hill and into the real world. in recent year

from the military push that made americans question whether the vietnam war could be won a combat photographer remembers the tet offensive fifty years later. and appeal for unity at home in a message of strength and power abroad to live or to first state of the union speech highlighting the successes of his administration he's outlined a plan for tougher immigration policy a powerful military and a stronger nuclear deterrence program from washington d.c. alan fischer reports. oh no no truck that's got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washington was marked by protests. president. inside a much warmer welcome for donald trump. the state of the union traditionally when a president lays out his vision for the future the state of our union is strong for donald trump a chance to look back at the tumultuous first year he boasted about his economic successes since the election we have created two point four million new jobs in the morning. on including two hundred thousand new jobs in manufacturing alone but he talked about cutting black unemployment i

ultimately at last getting us out of the vietnam war. you know, as i said, it's an impossible job but this is the historian judgment. then at the same time he couldn't like doin doing that ie vietnam war and let us down. what a disaster. more american troops died in that war than any of the others in world war ii. the civil war exceeds everybody else in 620,000 died. i wish i could come back in 100 years to see what has happened. i told this to a group of 20-year-old students. in the middle. >> one of your predecessor biographers focused on roosevelt lost the power as the driving force for him. you mentioned his tendency to manipulate and i'm reminded of the famous conversation between truman and eisenhower right at the time of kennedy's funeral, when they both agreed, which they rarely did with each other that roosevelt was the most cold-blooded person. can you talk about the elements of this character? >> you don't get to be president of the country without having to be a son of a. you have to be prepared to step on toes and how open a