Over congress, but he had democraticlost 47 seats in the house and two seats in the senate. This was a significant setback. Certainly damaging. L. B. J. s political popularity, pretty steadya decline across 1967. See importantly, what you across 1967 is a kind of breakup centrist coalition that on and beenepended one ofctively in 1964, the biggest landslides in american president ial history. By 196 , he could 1967, he ofld see that was a thing the past and the coalition was fracturing into any number of pieces. On American History t. V. , all weekend long, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. And for the next hour and a half, were going to focus on 1967. Ate of the war in to help us do that, our guests are professor lienhang nguyen. History professor at Columbia University and author book an International History of the war for peace in vietnam. Also, Mark Lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin and author of the vietnam war, a history. Ternational wed al
Amount of political difficulty. In the 19 six progress in elections, the democrats had not , butcontrol over congress lbj had lost 47 seats in the house, this was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. You can see a decline across 1967. On a more fundamental level, what you see leading into 1968 as the breakup of that coalition int lbj had depended on american president ial history. Forward into 68, he could see that was a thing of the past. The coalition he had affectionately coupled together. All weekend long, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. We will focus on the state of the war in 1967. That, our guest is professor at Columbia University author of the book an International History of the war for peace in vietnam. Also, professor of history at the university of texas at austin. Author of the book, the vietnam war. For those of you in eastern and time zone, numbers to call and if you are a vietnam vet, or a protester from the era, real forward to
I just got an f from you. This is overheard. Senator hayden, welcome. Thanks for having me here, evan. [evan] very nice to be here. Nice to see all of you again. Well, good to have you here, sir. So, were half a century from vietnam. Were more than 50 years from the port huron statement, the famous document that you authored or were principal author of. Im tempted to ask you if were better off today than we were back then. Thats a good question, ive chosen to believe in the permanence to the process, to the conflict process, the process of war, theres something permanent about it, some people say its human nature, but its very repetitive to me. Ive been here before, i can see it coming again, were gonna live under a war president no matter who is the president. And the threat is gonna be to our domestic budgets, education, environment, and domestic spending, but itll also cause another Peace Movement and Justice Movement to arise. So youre looking for the Silver Lining at the end of th
Annette fury as the European Parliament holds an extraordinary decision on its pressureu places in order to leave the block. And here in paris, protests for the 11th time against the government pass hotly contested labor reform. Annette all eyes are on brussels this tuesday. David cameron meets with fellow eu leaders. He will only attend the first day of the twoday summit. The soontobe former prime formerr will meet with eu Prime Minister jeanclaude junker, and donald toss. Lets take a listen to what Jeanclaude Juncker had to farage just a half an hour or so into the meeting. Youhat is the last time applaud me here. And to some extent, i am surprised that you are here. You were fighting for the exit. The british people voted in favor of the exit. Are brussels correspondent has been following all of this for us. We have been seeing some amazing themes here in the European Parliament this morning. Havent weight . Think this is inevitable, ncker, anclaude ju avid federalist, and nigel far
I just got an f from you. This is overheard. Senator hayden, welcome. Thanks for having me here, evan. [evan] very nice to be here. Nice to see all of you again. Well, good to have you here, sir. So, were half a century from vietnam. Were more than 50 years from the port huron statement, the famous document that you authored or were principal author of. Im tempted to ask you if were better off today than we were back then. Thats a good question, ive chosen to believe in the permanence to the process, to the conflict process, the process of war, theres something permanent about it, some people say its human nature, but its very repetitive to me. Ive been here before, i can see it coming again, were gonna live under a war president no matter who is the president. And the threat is gonna be to our domestic budgets, education, environment, and domestic spending, but itll also cause another Peace Movement and Justice Movement to arise. So youre looking for the Silver Lining at the end of th