The commemoration of the anniversary of the war it self and National Archives, the keeper of the country, commemorates high points, low points in our history with major exhibits. This one was particularly important to me since i am a vietnam vet and i want to remember a war that is still so controversial, we have records. Have there ever been an expose before . No, it is safe to say that in the past the subject was avoided as it has been in most museums and missions across the country. It is recently that theres a level of comfort in telling stories. Do you think that experience of the archives being avoided is reflective of how vietnam over the 50 years has been received . It is a subject that no one talked about. Like it never happened. It is not often covered in a k12 history. History stops and world war ii and touches on korea but usually never gets to it. Your exhibit, is the archives exhibit, breaks it down into a 12 chapter more episodes. Tell as of the reasoning and what you ho
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 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobbled together was fracturing. Here on American History tv, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of the war in 1967. To help us do that, our guests are professor lienhang nguyen, history professor at Columbia University and author of the book hanois war. Also Mark Lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin and author of war ak the vietnam Concise International history. For years of you in the eastern and central time zones, call 202748ht 900 8900. If your protester, that line is 202748, lets start with lienhang nguyen. Viet
This one was particularly important to me since i am a vietnam vet and i want to war that is still so controversial, that we have the opportunity to tell the story from the records. Has there ever been any sort of expose on the vietnam war before in the past . No, it is safe to say that in the past the subject was avoided as it has been in most museums and museums across the country. It is just recently that theres a level of comfort in telling those stories. Do you think that experience of the archives being avoided is reflective of how vietnam over the 50 years has been received . It is a subject that no one talked about. It is as if it never happened. It is not often covered in a k12 history class. Stop at world war ii and touch on korea but usually never gets to it. Your exhibit, is the archives exhibit, breaks it down into a 12 chapter more episodes. Tell us the reasoning and what you hope people will learn as they go through the different stages. It is a big story that goes to th
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 1964. By 1967, as lbj looks forward in 1968, he can see that was a thing of the past and the coalition he had cobbled together was fracturing. Here on American History tv, we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of the war in 1967. To help us do that, our guests are professor lienhang nguyen, history professor at Columbia University and author of the book hanois war. Also mark lawrence, professor of history at the university of texas at austin and author of war ak the vietnam Concise International history. For years of you in the eastern and cen
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