operation in south vietnam. this is not an invasion of cambodia. >> nixon's conviction is that what you've got to do is cut off the supplies that the north vietnamese are funneling into the south to the viet cong, and the way to do it is to take out the ho chi minh trail, the route they're using through cambodia. >> you don't quite realize that cambodia is its own country, in fact, a country that always had tenuous relationships with vietnam. and once they destabilize cambodia, you really just have all hell breaking out. >> the cambodian operation will continue during the coming days. american units searching for north vietnamese troops and installations, but what they will find or how long they will be here no one can say for sure. >> the active, large-scale american and south vietnamese participation in the fighting in cambodia has brought a cry of anger from many college campuses. at kent state university in ohio, the protest turned into a riot with thousands of demonstrators facing national guardsmen and pol

were there anti-war movements in north vietnam or in south vietnam as well? >> there were. there were anti-war movements in south vietnam for sure. i'll speak to north vietnam. it's not quite accurate to call them anti-war movements. there were different options that some segments of the population in the north particularly within the party wanted to pursue. in terms of reunionfy occasion. they never wanted to go to war. there was a sizeable faction mainly party officials who wanted to unify the country through political means and they believed that waging war in the south, going to war in the south, supporting the southern insurgency would be a quagmire that would drain resources from building the north. they were on the losing side. in 1967 this all came to aforewhen they were arrested like a few waves of arrest that began in july of 1967 all the way tieing to the strategy liberation. that was one element. another element was side lining hochiman and to quiet this dissent. people calling for negotiations to end american intervention by talking directly with washington, d.

vietnam. he also called on labor to avoid a wage price spiral. he called republicans in soldiers ofe wooden the status quo." >> [applause] despite what one critic called the unjust hyperbole of his attack on republicans, the president would claim with considerable accuracy that the majority of bills enacted in the past four years had grown. >> it wasn't easy, every step of the way. there were voices and votes that said, no, not so fast. it is only a rehash. it cost too much money. don't you know there is a war on, and you have to stop progress at home? i have heard them all/ l. together -- together, we have answered them all. ♪ >> the 90th congress's first session reflected tensions over vietnam and the urban crises. but the machinery had managed to finance the war, keep important domestic programs going, and pass key legislation, including social security benefits. this included the operation of the model city concept, and an expansion of federal city jurisdiction over the control of air po

north and south vietnam. during the war. as well as sort of various political actors in both countries. one side was able of the democratic republic of north vietnam. to be able to squash dissent. the south vietnamese government was less capable of doing that. this second question gets to also the question about the relationships between saigon and the big power patrons. i think what i find striking to the course of my research is you see some of the same lines from chinese sources. soviet sources approximate american sources with how difficult it was for the big power patrons to deal with gene yor clients or allies. and really gets to sort of the difficulty of the sort of the state of international relations and the cold war and decolonization and the conflicts that it sucked in in my many ways the great powers. they wanted to dictate and direct the course of the war they were unable to. >> what did we learn from it. and 1967 what could -- what were the decisions that lbj could have made that could have changed the course o

>> yeah, there were, i'll talk to south vietnam. they were different. there were some segments in the north that the party wanted to pursue in terms of unification. they didn't want to go to war, mainly pro soffit party officials that wanted to reunify through political means. and this they believed that waging war in the south, going to war in the south, supporting the southern insurgency would be a kwquagmire of rapid proportio that would drain from the north. they were on the losing side. and in 1967 this all came to the floor when they were arrested. they were arrested in about like a few waves of arrests that began in july of 1967 all the way into the tet offensive. and it was tied to the strategy to the tet offensive. that was one element. another element was side lining ho chi minh. and to quiet this dissent. people calling for negotiations to end american intervention by talking directly with washington d.c., but the leaders in hanoi did not want to pursue that option. >> you are welcome to tweet us, at mad man across water, about asking about a

of south vietnam but the clouds you see it's a long way north anyway and it's been going to be a rain and a wave risk the storm itself will have it across the gulf of thailand and probably make landfall just sciences southern thailand in the next two days. the weather sponsored by cats on these. a conflict is like god because you create things shining in korea and building full glory yes mean larry shifts her attention to the disaster stricken regions of pakistan building upon traditional techniques and people with the knowledge needed to sustain their societies redbone texture a traditional feel at this time and to see one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know is that it turns out of it but the good because you have a lot of people that if i did on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel in fear of a good au

christmas for four years he would fly are it way up to the dmz, the dividing line between north and south vietnam and have christmas dinner with the marines and then of course -- and remember that these marines and soldiers, they were draftees. they weren't there because they volunteered. mainly 18/19-year-old kids. i've seen those pictures. they're just beautiful. and he would come back very happy and restored from that experience. and so it was very -- he was very cognizant of the fact that it north vietnamese were -- valued my presence and as you know, there's so many stories we could tell but they offered me a chance to be released. but our code of conduct says sick and injured and by order of capture. i knew why they were offering me release. if my name had been smith but saying no wasn't the easiest thing to say. and i don't nene bounce around but three years after i had refused on christmas eve, cold christmas eve in hanoi i was in solitary confinement. every cell had a loud speaker and they were playing christmas music. i still remember that one of the songs was i'll be home for c

. >> president johnson was determined to prevent a communist victory in south vietnam. he twisted the facts of the tonkin golf incident to persuade congress to give him unlimited authority to use military force. he then launched a war that would last another 11 years. >> senator full bright, you moved the tonkin resolution through the senate. did you know anything -- >> i accepted the story given to us by the president and mcnamara and gentleman wheeler. i had no reason to doubt the validity, the truthfulness of this whole operation. >> we still see no wider war. >> no wider war? as i found out day by day in the pentagon, tha was our highest priority, preparing a wider war, which he expected to take place immediately after the election. >> it's a war that ought to be fought by the boys of asia to help protect their own land. and for that reason, i haven't chosen to enlarge the war. >> that was a conscious lie, we all knew that inside the government. not one of us told the press or the public or the electorate during that election. it was a well kept secret by thousands

soledad: chi lang, south vietnam, september 17, 1969. staff sergeant morris was leading one of three groups of south vietnamese fighters into little-known hamlet near chi lang. they were supposed t then clear the area. >> we moved on out of the village into the tree line. and by the time we got out of the tree line, the whole world opened up. >> hundreds of people firing thousands of rounds. so and team sergeant ronald hagen were ambushed by vietcong who had been hiding in bunkers. >> i got a call telling me tha asked morris, do you know where hagen is? he said, yes, i do. i'll lead us in there. soledad: morris took two volunteers and crossed enemy lines to get sergeant hagen's body, pushed back by a barrage he was shot. >> i had to get to the body, so i said i was going in. soledad: what morris did next not just a heroic war story. it was a moment of valor defined. morris single-handedly destroye the enemy force that had his battalion pinned down. in the fog of gunfire, he'd shot two more times. he didn't stop. >> you take every effort

>> south vietnam was not a signatory. it was an associated member. it was used loosely in the beginning, but it was primarily the united states, australia, thailand, new zealand, and i think the philippines. >> thank you. i won't ask them if they got nursing care and how good or bad it was. i will leave that alone. i'm curious if any of you have been back, if you have a desire to go back, or if you don't want anything more to do with it? >> i have been back six times. the last time was in may. i don't think any of the others have. >> i have not been back but i teach in the history department. we are on our sixth vietnamese officer. i worked very closely with five of them and they have been delightful people. i would love to go back. at some point in time, i think i will if she whom must be obeyed, will let me. >> upwards of 70% of the population was born after the war so there is not a corporate memory of the war there. if it is socialism, it is not the socialism ho chi minh had in mind. it is very capitalistic in the south but also be north. -- but

christmas for four years, he would fly all the way up to the dmz, the dividing line between north and south vietnam and have christmas dinner with the marines and then, of course -- and remember, that these marines and soldiers, they were draftees. they weren't there because they volunteered and they are mainly 18, 19-year-old kids. it's just -- i've seen those pictures. they are just beautiful. and he would come back very happy and restored from that experience. and so it was very -- he was very cognizant of the fact that the north vietnamese were -- valued my presence. and as you know, so many stories we could tell, but they offered me a chance to be released but our code of conduct says, sick and injured and by order of capture and i knew why they were offering me release. if my name had been smith, it wouldn't have been -- but saying no was -- it wasn't the easiest thing to say. and i don't mean to bounce around but three years afterwards, after i had refused on christmas eve, cold christmas eve in hanoi, i was in solitaire confinement. every cell had a loud speaker in it and they were

vietnam, and have christmas dinner with the marines, and then -- of course, remember that these marines and soldiers, they were draftes. they weren't there because they volunteered. 18, 19-year-old kids. i've seen those pictures. they're just beautiful. he would come back very happy and restored from that experience. and so it was very -- he was very cognizant of the fact that the north vietnamese were -- valued my presence. and as you know -- there are so many stories we could tell, but they offered me a chance to be released, but our code of conduct says sick and injured and by order of capture. and i knew why they were offering me release. if my name had been smith, it wouldn't have -- but, so, saying no wasn't the easiest thing to say. and i don't mean to bounce around, but three years afterwards, after i had refused, on christmas eve, cold christmas eve in hanoi, i was in solitary confinement. every cell had a loudspeaker in it and they were playing christmas music. i still remember one of the songs was i'll be home for christmas sung by dine ashor-- shore. three men came into my c

sam donaldson, peter jennings, and this rookie -- >> ted koppel, abc, south vietnam -- >> he look like baby face. >> reporter: for three decades hiroshiki captured a first draft of american history. but his accent remains stubbornly japanese. he covered presidel politics to international summits. >> i remember being in moscow with sam donaldson, and sam insisted on working with tony, so did every other anchor there. >> what made tony a good cameraman? >> tony had life experience. he had the beautiful eye to see like a story. >> reporter: his humanity helping guide young talent on both sides of the camera. >> every producer had a story about why they had to work with tony. they'd change shoot days to match tony's schedule. there's a whole generation of journalists who are as good as they are in part because of tony. >> reporter: hiroshiki retired a few years back. but this generation of anchors like bob woodruff and david muir will always remember him fondly. >> but investigators say -- >> do you remember any of those early standups? >> one of them i remember. just ten minutes before, n

it is likely to weaken a little bit just making landfall around the south vietnam, a wide area is likely to see heavy rain, damaging winds and also big waves around the coast, so and also big waves around the coast, so coastal flooding will be a problem, further inland as rainfall totals mount up we succeed landslides occurring too. the storm will then weaken a little bit, moving into the gulf of thailand toward southern parts of thailand. heady bursts of rain and strong winds likely here. although the storm will be weakening a touch, as it is quite slow moving it will have further impacts, making landfall in southern vietnam during monday, bringing more than 300 millimetres of rain, flooding and landslides light clique, as well as winds of over 130 kilometres an hour. —— likely. and you‘ll find much more about storm tembin and other top stories on our website. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. let‘s take a look at some of the other stories making the news: the president of guatemala, jimmy morales, has said he plans to move his country‘s embass

it is likely to weaken a little bit, just making landfall around south vietnam. damaging wind but also big waves around the coast. coastal flooding will certainly be a problem. then it will head out into the gulf of thailand, possibly a little weaker, it still were strong wind and heavy rain, but then heading towards thailand. it is going to have further impact, making landfill during monday, could be more than 300 millimetres of rain. flooding and landslides likely as well as gusts of i30 rain. flooding and landslides likely as well as gusts of 130 kilometres an hour. and you'll find much more about storm tembin and the other top stories on our website. just head to bbc.com/news. you can also download the bbc news app. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. the president of guatemala, jimmy morales, has said he plans to move his country's embassy in israel tojerusalem. guatemala was one of only seven countries that voted with the united states and israel against a united nations resolution calling on the us to reverse its recognition ofj

vietnam. and have christmas dinner with the marines, and then, of course, and remember, these marines and soldiers, they were draftees. they weren't there because they volunteered. and they're mainly 18, 19-year-old kids. just i have seen the pictures. they're just beautiful. and he would come back very happy and restored from that experience. and so it was very -- he was very cognizant of the fact that north vietnamese were -- valued my presence. and as you know, there's so many stories we could tell, but they offered me a chance to be released. but our code of conduct says sick and injured and by order of capture. and i knew why they were offering me release. if my name had been smith, it wouldn't have been. so saying no wasn't the easiest thing to say. and i don't mean to bounce around, but three years afterwards, after i had refused, on christmas eve, cold christmas eve in hanoi, i was in solitary confinement. every cell had a loud speaker in it, and they were playing christmas music. i st

of vietnam war but lam som 719 was primarily the south vietnam army operation. but that time the vet muization of the war was starting. the -- lot of the military u.s. military were standing down. so they did have some military support but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and there was an incursion into laos to cut off the supply line and they used 276 hewies. and then i don't know how many cobras but i'm sure there were several hundred and of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think going in wasn't so bad. it's always it picking up and the pz. the lz sometimes not so bad. but the pzs, the pick up zone, oh, boy, that's when you sweated it. so anyway, i'm going to let ed tell us hiz story about nam som 719. >> i showed up in c, had hulai. . >> thank you. >>> senator mccain, when you look back 50 years ago when your plane went down in hanoi and the last 50 years, what today, in your opinion, are the legacies of vietnam, good and bad.

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defense wasne of south vietnam. .e did not want to lose the war it was always hanging over the head, the want to make this a much wider war with the chinese and russians and bring them into the war? that is not a situation we had enrolled war two, we knew who they were. case, youarticular enemies but they weren't fighting yet because they had not been drawn in. wideneling was, if you the war that there is no end to it. there is no end to it very similar to what we did in korea, we try to hold the line -- and to it. similar to what we did in korea, we try to hold the line. you're not trying to hold anybody back, you are just trying to not widen that war to a major confrontation. >> to it was a war of containment, not a war of victory? >> containment is victory. that was the theme of the pentagon papers. this is all about containing china. >> yes, please. context, i was at the army recruiting station because i'm looking to join up. that is what my question comes from. there was some mention that it has gone from everybody was in the military to it is harder and harder to come across so

the first line of defense was south vietnam. we didn't want to lose the war, headlways hanging over the was -- do you want to make this a much wider war and bring the chinese and russians into the war, which is not a situation we had in world war ii. we basically had two enemies and we knew who they were and they were fighting. in this case, you had enemies but they weren't fighting yet. they had not been drawn into the war. our feeling was, you widen the war and there is no end to it. similar to what we did in korea, we were trying to hold the line. to keep the spread of communism from happening. you were not trying to hold anybody back. you are not trying to widen that war to a major confrontation. leonard: so it was a war of containment, not as much as a war of victory? jim: containment was victory throughout the cold war. >> that was the theme of the pentagon papers. this was all about containing china. >> for context i was at the , recruiting station today, looking to join up. there's some mention where you used to know eve

south vietnam and so forth. america was introduced for the first time very seriously to the atomic bomb. because there were missiles so close to the u.s. this is a picture i made in los angeles of school kids being taught about the affects of the bomb. and how they had to run into the hall and protect thepss. to me it kind of shows you this duck and recovery situation that we were all being educated to the effect of nuclear weapons. not in japan or in some other place in the world. but right here at home. in 62, kennedy made this speech concerning the soviet missile in cuba to the nation. this is a picture taken by crane of life magazine. and it wasn't long after that about six months later that kennedy and the world is faced with the effects of the berlin wall. kennedy went to germany and of course in june of 1963 made his very famous speech there. that he supported germany and supported the unified germany. and that america was not going to stand around and allow this to happen. he did start to negotiate a pac

. >> this is near south vietnam. >> reporter: for three decades, through his viewfinder, he captured a first draft of televised american history. he retired a few years back, but this generation of anchors like bob woodruff and david muir will always remember him fondly. >> do you remember any of those early stand-ups? >> one time i remember just ten minutes before -- no. all right, the show started, and you came -- make sure i don't make a mistake. >> i came to you in the show and was already on the air. >> yeah. >> nothing's changed. well, thank you for having patience for all of us, all these years. >> you are one of my correspondents too. >> and i'm proud of that. i'm proud of that, tony. >> thank you. >> great man. thank you for watching tonight. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "gma." tom is back here tomorrow. again, thanks for watching. good night. good night. prices of the season' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, does your bed do that? right now our queen c4 mattress is only $1199. plus 24 month financing. ends monday. visit sleepnumber.com f

after devastating large areas in the south of philippines, tropical storm tembin is heading to vietnam. the king of spain renews his call for unity amid the ongoing fallout from catalonia's independence referendum. the russian opposition politician alexei navalny says he's gathered enough support to stand against vladimir putin in next year's presidential election. from trump taking christmas calls to waterskiing santas — we look at how celebrations are shaping up around the world. hello and welcome to the programme. pope francis has urged the world's roman catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants who have been forced to flee because of violence. at christmas eve mass in saint peter's basilica, the pontiff drew comparisons with the biblical story of mary and joseph, who found no place to stay in bethlehem when mary was about to give birth tojesus. pope francis said respect for migrants was an integral part of christianity. virginia langeberg reports. in vatican city, the faithful began gathering long before midnight in st peter's square. beneath a giant christmas tree, a scene

after devastating large areas in the south of philippines, tropical storm tembin is heading to vietnam. the plight of the seven sick children waiting to hear if they'll be evacuated from syria. the king of spain renewed his call for unity and meet the ongoing fallout from catalonia's independence referendum not and from trump taking christmas calls to waterskiing santas — we look at how celebrations are shaping up around the world. hello and welcome to the programme. as we go to wear, let's bring you some breaking news, there has been an explosion that has hit an area of kabul, near the location of afg hanistan‘s central intelligence agency. there has been no word on the cause of the blast which occurred close to the entrance of the national security complex. an explosion in couple and we will bring you more as we get it —— in kabul. pope francis has urged the world's roman catholics not to ignore the plight of migrants who have been forced to flee because of violence. at christmas eve mass in saint peter's basilica, the pontiff drew comparisons with the biblical story of mary

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i think he believed that as he said in speeches, if we don't fight them in south vietnam we'll be fighting them in the streets of san francisco even though we knowon s johnson had own doubts. so they are both complex in this regard. it seems to me on the foreign policy side i would say it applies more to j.f.k. >> i think it is a question of measure effectiveness. if you measure effectiveness by legislation lyndon johnson, you know, a long list of very impressive things. nixon got a lot of great legislation through. people don't remember that as much. it is the inspiration. one of the other areas i would ask both of you, dnd awant to cover this because of where we are. he and his known for r for what they did in the white house and how it was part of society. if you look at many of his speeches you talked about that from similar poll you can things like having robert frost to the inauguration and other things. are there other presidents you think have had the same level of commitment in recent times? >> i'll let ted ponder that one. it is by suggesting you're onto something very important.

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vietnam. we were up against trying to tell the truth in a very difficult and complex situation in which the american military, the american embassy was saying one thing, and we were seeing and saying other things. and so the new york office tends to be suspicious of us. and certainly, washington people are suspicious of us because they think we're just negative because we're young and impetuous. but i realized after having spent a month in this province that if it couldn't succeed in this particular place, it couldn't succeed anywhere. so that was -- abc in new york couldn't, they just could not accept that. but this particular province was, didn't have any enemy troops there because it was a religious place that had become quite anti-communist. so john scally just said look, drew the, this is ridiculous, i'm not going to do this program for you. but identify always been grateful -- i've always been grateful for bill sheehan who was the vice president of abc news then saying, drew, narrate thi

japan, south korea and vietnam, we're at wars with all these korea just outh because of the korean war and countries are our largest trading partners. what that tells me, if we trade companies afterwards, why don't we trade and put the war to the side and work on trade, i think everybody >> tonight, president trump announces a formal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. congressman greenup introduces articles of impeachment. and senate intelligence committee chair richard burr gives an update on the investigation of russian investigation -- russian interference in the 2016 election. at the white house, president trump announced the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas said the decision means the u.s. can no longer act as a mediator in peace talks. trump: thank you. when i came into office, i promised to look at the world's challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. we cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. all challenges de

japan, ook at germany, south korea and vietnam, we're at wars with all these korea just outh because of the korean war and countries are our largest trading partners. what that tells me, if we trade companies afterwards, why don't we trade and put the war to the side and work on trade, i think everybody >> tonight, president trump announces a formal recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. congressman greenup introduces articles of impeachment. and senate intelligence committee chair richard burr gives an update on the investigation of russian investigation -- russian interference in the 2016 election. at the white house, president trump annnc

the viet cong had been eliminated and now you were were starting to infiltrate into south vietnam. units.ere still vc but i know the day we killed someone wearing a certain belt buckle, we were in a different role. it was jungle fighting, stumbling into bunker areas. you simply could not see before you got there. going out on platoon-sized patrols. the drawdown had begun. we were talking maybe 21, 22 troop in a platoon. those of you who have been in the military, always love it when your company commander is supposed to come down and sit with you for a while and go on operations with you and just be there to boost you up. i always loved that. alwayssure my platoon had that joy. i would go which -- with each one of them. each operation i would change out with them and give them the benefit of my 24-year-old wisdom. [laughter] kiper: it was a difficult time for the army. platoon, my my company first sergeant -- i had a couple of sergeants. one was a staff sergeant, who was a shake and bake. meaning he was an honors graduate from his training course. he and i are still in close contac

vietnam. he has a ba in history from texas a&m. he has an ma and phd from the university of kansas. he has been on the command and general staff college faculty of the department of military history for -- since 1992. he chaired the department for 11 years. during that time, it has come to be known i quote from the front , page of the new york times 10 years or so ago -- as the intellectual center of the army. in fact, he puts that at the bottom of his email signature. that is appropriate. it's required? ok. came down from on high, i guess. well, it's appropriate in his case, because no one has done more to make that true. he is the author or editor of 14 books, including the book, "great commanders." its origins are a series of lectures that command historians given here at the library. he is an author of books on the tet offensive and the battle of anlock. etc., etc. advisor to editorial modern more studies at the university of kansas press. he is on the editorial board of armchair history b

non i don't know if you know the history of the vietnam war, but lam song was primarily the south vietnam army operation. by that time, the end of the war was starting. a lot of u.s. military were standing down so they didn't have military support, but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion into laos to cut off supply lines. and they used 276 hueys. and then i don't know how many cobras but i'm sure there were ser several hundred. of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think the going in wasn't so bad. it's always the picking up in the pz. the lz, not so bad, but you the pick up zone, the pz, oh, that's when you sweated it. i'm going let ed tell us his story. >> i showed up in vietnam in july 1970. was ie signed to the 116th, the yellow jacket platoon. as a new guy they call you expletive, new guy. for the first two months you fly with the aircraft commanders that have been there and earned the right to be an aircraft commander. after three months or so wh

but this was primarily the south vietnam army operation. but that time, the station of the war was starting. a lot of the military, u.s. military were kind of standing down, so they didn't have the military support, but they weren't the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion into laos to cut off the supply line. and they used 276 qes. and then i don't know how many culprits, but i'm sure there were several hundred. of that group, 168 helicopters were shot down. it was, i think going in, it wasn't too bad. it is always thickening up. lz, sometimes not so bad, but the pz, the pickup zone, oh, boy. that's when you sweated it. so anyway, i'm going to let ed tell us his story about 719. >> i showed up in vietnam in july of 1970. was assigned to the 116th assault helicopter company through the yellowjacket platoon. as a new guy, they call you new guy. and for the first two or three months, you fly with the aircraft commanders that have been

i do not know if you know the history of the vietnam war, but but lam son 719 was primarily a south vietnam operation. at that time, the war was starting. a lot of the u.s. military were kind of standing down so they did not have military support. they were not the primary units in this operation. and it was the largest combat assault operation in the history of the entire vietnam war. and it was an incursion to cut off the supply line into loas, and they used 276 hueys. i do not know how many cobras, but i am sure several hundred. of that, 168 helicopters were shot down. i think the going in was not so bad. it is always the picking up. the lz's sometimes not so bad. the pz's, the pickup zones, that is when you sweated it. anyway, i will let ed tell us his story about lam son 719. ed: i showed up in vietnam in july 1970, was assigned to the helicopter company to the yellowjackets team. as a new guy, they call you the new guy. for the first two or three months, you fly with the aircraft commanders that had been there and have earned the right to be an aircraft commander. after three months o

vietnam saying, hold out. this is when we were getting started on the peace negotiations in paris. nixonid, hold out and will give you a better deal. i think we would have had peace in vietnam but the settlement took us six more years to get and we never got it in that respect. leonard: following up on that, politically, are we still fighting the battles of the non-? -- of vietnam? jim: i don't think we are. >> i want to agree with some of r's congressman bar statements about, when you've seen the horrors of war, i don't care how patriotic or how committed you are, it really makes you think twice, three times, four times about getting into war. you understand on a very human level the costs of the war, the tragedy and the horrors of war. think some of the members of the caucus who have been in the military are the most hesitant to make that commitment. when you talk about that transition, it happened with some of the healthy skepticism. a lot of guys who got hit over there are healthy skeptics. fade when theo

vietnam, we'll be fighting them in the streets of san francisco. >> they're both complex in this regard, it seems to me on the foreign policy side, since you use the word transformational i would say it applies to jfk. >> it's a fascinating question of measure effectiveness as both of you said. you measure effectiveness by legislation. lyndon johnson head and shoulders, long list of very impressive things. if you go a little further, richard nixon got a lot of great legislation through it. people don't remember that as much. it's a combination of the inspiration and spirit. one of the other areas i would ask both of you, and they'll get to the next question in the audience, one of the things -- and i particularly want to cover this because of where we are, john kennedy was known for his commitment to the arts. he and his wife, both what they did in the white house, and his belief, how it wasn't nice to have -- symbolic things, having robert frost at the inauguration. other presidents that you think have had the same level commitment to the arts in recent time? suggesting you're on to so

barry covered the fall of selfie at nam in 1979 where he -- the fall of south vietnam in 1979 yasutsaneet hirashiki. after retirement -- it's hard to believe you retire -- and he was awarded recognition of distinguished reporting on foreign policy and diplomacy. of "commentaryr by a former foreign correspondent. -- former foreign correspondent." next, a man who probably needs no introduction, but i'm going to do it bac anyway, ted topol, who was my boss back in the 1980's, 1990's. youngestl became the correspondent ever hired by abc radio news working on the daily flair reports program, including the kennedy assassination in 1963 were he was scheduled to do a short report, but the crisis forced him to ad-lib for an hour and a half. and if you know ted, that was easy. ted: i have been talking ever since. terry: [laughter] in the following years he covered presidential campaigns, civil rights protests. and beginning in 1966, the vietnam war. you will see him coming up here, questionsare 15-year-olds were allowed to write to the tokyo bureau. he was the abc state news correspondent. , her ta

hello the cloud is building again over china but maybe more particularly for the south of vietnam it will bring showers increasingly to the coast of vietnam and then by the time we get to wednesday as proper rainy and landing mean more to season rain that means that much of china isn't quite as cold as you might think for this time in winter in fact big pool of clouds covering a good part may reach shanghai the active weather to the south is one of the reasons why we've got this rain developing inland that is former typhoon tembin tropical storm soon to be depression is over the science of vietnam by the look of a satellite picture because it's hard to find the center now it's a mass of rain and it's a couple of hundred millimeters but also high seas in the mekong delta hence the risk as it spreads across and you can't anymore define it it will eventually reach some thailand peninsula malaysia as a big mass of rain not a problem with wind. now there is rain further south in this part of the world but once again you come down to indonesia western java to focus in with more showers unf

of vietnam and cambodia and i saw making its way westwards once again there's a lot of heavy showers malaysia and indonesia something of a break in the heaviest downpours for sunday's loss you go on into monday and those showers become more widespread yet again they have showers they continue further north there up towards southern parts of thailand you can see this circulation has been making its way into the heavy rain here too plenty of heavy rain recently across parts of victoria northern areas of toria in australia could see this area of low pressure seeing huge record breaking amounts of rainfall well over two hundred millimeters of rain in places and that's all making its way east was clear skies do come back in full test in adelaide eighteen celsius here in the southerly braces set is something of a chill and sixteen celsius for melbourne but rising as we go on into monday but the showers will cling on to the eastern side of the country well so much of the making its way into a struggle over the next couple of days it's looking rather warm as well with temperatures at twenty

. >>> the presidents what the guest of honor at state visits to china, south korea and vietnam. and queen elizabeth has invited him to the uk. the white house says the president is hoping to host a state visit early next year, but there's no word on which government might be getting the invitation. >>> the united nations is bracing four the possibility of another financial blow. the u.s. is slashing nearly $300 million from the u.n.'s annual budget and hinted that m may follow. president trump recently threatened to pull aid from member nations for failing to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. >>> overseas, russian opposition leaders are calling for a boycott of next year's presidential election after it was determined alexei navalny is d disqualified. the election is march 18th. >>> and in cuba, dozens are injured after a fireworks explosion during christmas eve festival. at least six children are among those hurt. the annual event draws thousands of tourists and cubans each town. it features a fireworks conte the cause of the explosion is under investigation. >>> ba