Moment totake a mention a couple of additional arele who are here they three who came from vietnam who will be participating this afternoon and i think that for a number of reasons i want to introduce them including in reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and tran teortunate to have wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. Will beguyen fu talking about an effort to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Lai who is ao van victim of exploded and unexploded ordnance. I also want to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this panelence and the wednesday afternoon. That is terry province and John Mcauliffe from that vietnam peace memory she committee. We out peace commemoration committee. [applause] a great pleasure to chris ap
Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
Minutes. All right, so this next panel is a little different. The first two, in a sense. You had a military power. You had a panel. And this is what i call a disparate panel. Each of these folks represents something quite different. But the theme that brings it together is, postwar vietnam and all the different ways it has evolved. And rather than go through the tedious nature. Long introductions. Keith Washington Posts brilliant Foreign Correspondent man about town currently runs the journalism at the university of hong kong, which is worth its own panel. Right. And hong is a professor of distinction at columbia and. I can tell you, having been to one of her events just the other day, it was completely fascinating for reasons i think well get into, which is what is the nature of todays vietnam and ambassador burckhardt was not an ambassador when i first met him. He was a Junior Service officer who, unlike the rest of his people, actually talked to a reporter, which may have been the r
reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and we re fortunate to have tran te wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. we have nguyen fu will be talking about an effort of projetc renew to clear the landmines and unexploded ordnance. and we have van lai who himslef is a victim of exploding unexploded ordnance. i also want to take a moment to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this conference and particularly the panel of wednesday afternoon. that is terry province and john mcauliff from the vietnam peace peace commemoration committee. now it is a great pleasure to introduce chris appy. he is a professor, historian at the university of professor of massachusetts amherst. he is best known for three of his books on vie
Next up, a panel of cia analysts and Navy Historians discuss recently declassified cold war documents on the soviet navy. Cohosted by the Central Intelligence agency, the National Museum of the u. S. Navy and the Naval Historical Foundation. The hourlong event was titled red navy revealed, soviet Navy Intelligence and analysis during the cold war. All right. Well, good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming out to the National Press club. The worlds oldest and Largest Organization of professional journalists. My name is kevin wency, on behalf the jetblue and directors of the press club, i want to welcome you and our audience on cspan and other media. Thank you very much. We have a special program for you today. First, i wanted to introduce claire sassen from the Naval Historic Foundation claires the executive director. Thank you, kevin. Can you hear me . I know you want to hear from everyone else on the panel, not me. Ill only take a minute of your time. We are delighted to work with the