tip o'neill becomes sort of a mentor for jack murtha and tip o'neill decides that, you know, jack murtha needs to be on these fact finding trips around the world. wherever there are appropriations for military movements. and so, for instance, one of the very first ones in 1978, he finds himself back in vietnam, back in southeast asia, and he is meeting with various political figures as well as with military figures, and one of the things he does is he records on tape kind of a diary of his actions through the day. one of the things we have here in the collection are this wonderful transcript of his tapes. also with his notations on them. one of the things it says here is the state department was stating that there are two or three thousand russians in vietnam today and they give approximately $500 million per year in aid. they're also talking about sort of the claims of the vietnamese not being friendly to the russians and especially being ore friendly to the chinese. basically a fact finding trip is what's going on here trying to figure out who are the players on the ground in vietnam s

today, we will talk about congressman john patrick murtha, better known as jack murtha. john murtha was a congressman that served almost four decades in washington, representing the people of western pennsylvania, particularly the people sort of in the areas to the east and the south of surrounding pittsburgh. what i would like to share with you today is a bit about congressman murtha's career as a military man, about his influence with military spending, and also his legacy in the national parks service in western pennsylvania. inn murtha was not born western pennsylvania, but down along the ohio river in west virginia in the 1930's. but moke -- both of his parents were from western pa. so he finds himself coming back here as an early child. his family tradition is irish catholic. his great-grandfather emigrated to this country. they worked in the coal mines around places like scottsdale pennsylvania,sant just to the east of pittsburgh. it is very important to know that coal mining was very havetant here because we the home of the steel industry. and: the refinement of

as jack murtha. john murtha was a congressman that served almost four decades in washington, representing the people of western pennsylvania. particularly the people sort of in the areas to the east and the south of surrounding pittsburgh. what i'd like to share with you today is a bit about congressman murtha's career as a military man, about his influence with military spending, and also his legacy and the national park service here in western pennsylvania. jack murtha actually was not born here in western pennsylvania, but down in -- along the ohio river down in west virginia in the 1930's. both of his parents were originally from western p.a. so he finds himself coming back here as an early child. you know, the murthas, his family tradition is they were irish catholic family. his great grandfather emigrate today this country. they worked in the coal mines around places like scottsdale and mount pleasant, pennsylvania just to the east of pittsburgh. now, it's very important to know that the coal m

big democrat and jack murtha. that is what a southwestern pennsylvania democrat was. that was old fashioned blue territory. what did you see? >> exactly. i spent the day going around to polling places and a popular trump hang out. donald trump won them over. a lot of them had been jumping on the republican wagon for a while. trump's message just really resonated with them when you talked about jobs and trade. a cult following among the junkies and trying to figure out what we miss. what's going on there. i find it interesting, the rural vote first started going republican on culture issues. over the last couple of cycles, they haven't been as republican and it could be they didn't like the economic argument and here came a republican with an economic argument to talk about it. >> that's right. and nine of them were arguing for 20 years. >> we will cut entitlements and do this and free trade here and the economy is just going to grow. >> absolutely. the guy who said no, no, no to all of it was donald trump. he inspired so much confidence and passion and they led to the