On the 50th anniversary of his capture, senator mccain talked with American History tv about those events and his thoughts on the wars legacy and impact on america. This is about 25 minutes. Senator mccain, when you look back 50 years ago when your plane went down there in hanoi, and through the last 50 years, what today in your opinion are the legacies of vietnam, good and bad . The legacies of vietnam is that before we get into a conflict, we better have a strategy and a capability to win. And this is one of these gradual drip, drip, drip involvements, started out with a thing called the gulf of tonkin resolution where there was supposedly and still not clear to this day confrontation between vietnamese ship and or ships and american ships, which then led to a resolution rammed through by Lyndon Johnson to a complete lack of focus at strategy on how to bring it to a close. And im very sympathetic because the one thing that overrode most of Lyndon Johnsons thinking, appropriately, was
The statement by mccain joined s morning by a group that we all know well youve all been before this committee is i mention to the you a minute ago and i think most of the members of meet have seen in action in the field and investor crocker youve been diplomat in residence Wilson School and at Princeton University been all over the map. And in the last couple of decades, and a investor harry counselor, senator for strategic and budgetary assessment l by my account that is your 9th appearance before this committee does what sound right to you . Yeah. Investor at the university of Washington Institute for the policy i remember being with you in tucky, and other places and a, of course, ambassador Stewart Jones Vice President of the cohen group who your presence visited by i think every member here by both jordan and in iraq so it is great to have all of you here. Much of our nation attention has gone towards middle east in materials of military operations and thats appropriately so. Wev
Nuclear storage safety, and cybersecurity. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Todays over second the village of the Nuclear Regulatory commission, nrc. Id like to welcome chairman svinicki, welcome and im sad to say the Commission Remains without its full strength of five commissioners. This is the situation im eager to resolve. I continually the Commission Functions best with all five commissioners in place. Im a stock support of Nuclear Energy and it is a vital component of it all of the above approach to american energy. For a country to benefit from Nuclear Energy we need the nrc to be an effective efficient and predictable regulator. The nrc efficiency principle of good regulation states quote the american taxpayer, the rate paying consumer, and licensees are all entitled to the best possible management and administration of regulatory activities. I agree. It is our committees responsible to assess the agencies performance. The nrc Safety Missi
I am wes it is a distinct honor to sit here talking about the new book and it is great to be with you. I am glad to be here. So to give a background how i came to know about your book. I was sent this book by the good. Cspan said there is a new book coming out do you mind if we send it to you . Because i know about the work that you do and i read your book cuz and i was blown away. Just the power and in honesty with that structure taking place so it is a pleasure. So even before there are so many questions even before that talking about your process because this is a new type of book so what was your process to get to that point that you want to tell this story . There are a lot of different pieces in all honesty as a very talented writer having a hard life ending early so in the back of my head so i am a professor with an invitation and this was a famous lecture series and i agreed to these lectures to give the abstract titles and as we got closer we could not possibly talk about the