The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. Madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on october 28, 2019, at 12 27 p. M. That the Senate Passed senate 2665. That the Senate Passed senate 2107. With best wishes i am sinned sign searly, cheryl l johnson. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered or votes objected to under pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18 clause 6 of rule 20. The house will resume proceedings on postponed questions at later time. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from oregon seek recognition . Miss bonamici, mr. Speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 4334, as amended. T
That followed the 1968 tet offensive, the u. S. Media documented a growing crisis. Frequent stories of desertion, of drug use, combat, challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities, most infamous of which was the massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we suggested that things were different in the period before 1968. So as we Start Talking about posttet, id start by giving you a quick picture of pretet. And the most common claim thats not going to work. The most common claim that originated in the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam, the United States fielded the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in its history. A force with very high morale. Heres general westmoreland speaking in may 1966. Their performance is exceeding my expectations. I have also the journalist peter arnett in 1966 saying, morale is remarkably high. A
And that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. After the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing crisis, frequent stories of malaise, challenges to authority and reports of scandals and atrocities, the most infamous of which was the mai lai massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we are thinking about we suggested that things were different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post tet, i thought it would give you i thought i would give you a really quick picture of pretet. The most common claim that originated within the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam the United States had fielded the besttrained, bestequipped, bestdisciplined force in its history, a force of very high morale. Here is general westmoreland speaking in 1966, their performance is exceeding my expectations. I have the journalist peter
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Mildred bliss, who was a great friend of hers. She could let her hair down a bit and explain all the things that were going on in her life. But i think the garden notebook, which is a very important document, takes us through all the things she went through and her spot on comments about maintenance, design flaws. From the beginning, she have this incredible i think that was the most important thing that she brought to her Landscape Design career. That gavecial context her clients, but she would have been nowhere even with both clients she did not have that incredible insight into design and criticism. When i was looking at the program, when they first presented it to me, i had to learn about a little bit of the history. I did not want people to think we had the Beatrix Farrand garden all the way up which was then removed for the Justice Kennedy guarded. Just close, i will give you a little capsule of what happened between the two of them. Because actually, in the 1920s, and this is ve