Professor, looking back 50 years to 1967 was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wupt a war for the United States to win or lose. Take us to the end of 1967 and politically that president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon . Lbj was there a fair amount of difficulty. The democrats had lost not control over congress but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. The war was damaging lbjs pop la la la populari popularity. I think what you see is a kindovkind of breakup that lbj depended on to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial history. You could see it was a thing of the past and that the coalition was fracturing into any number of pieces. Here on American History tv all weekend long we are focusing on the war in vietnam. For the next hour and a half we are going to focus on the state of t of the war in 1967. Our guests are professor leann hang win. Als
Professor lienhang nguyen, looking back 50 years to 1967, was it still possible at that point to the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it was not in the cards. Mark lawrence, take us to the end of 1967 and politically the president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon for Lyndon Johnson . Well lbj was in a fair amount of political difficulty. In the 1966 elections the democrats have lost not control over congress which is an important point, but he had lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two seats in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was certainly damages his political popularity and you could see a decline across 1967. More importantly what you see across 1967 and leading into 1968 is a breakup of that coalition that lbj depended on and been so effectively in 1964 to one of the biggest landslides in american president ial hi
Lowhanging fruit and that face the movement became a victim of its own success because nationally people thought thats got everything they want. Racism still exists in american society. Shelby county notwithstanding and you know if you got the Civil Rights Act and people dont want to see the nuances of racism even in the 1980s when people were talking about south africa. People were like you should be focused on problems domestically so i think we can do many things and also people are naturally inclined to have certain causes that they care about. People are naturally going to focus more attention on some things than others and what you care about the most might not be what i care about the most but what i care about the most may not be what you care about the most and i think we should encourage people to take up their passion and cause not turn their noses up when somebody is doing Something Else because basically we can cover everything through a specialization. So many times a foc
Training posture and both for military and rest of the economy. Again i think weve not been arguing for a certain size of the military been arguing for the competitiveness of the nation. Both on the military sides and also economically. I think that is a huge question that youre hearing in innovation space but also in skills and then the defense Manufacturing Base which i think were seeing there a, the Technology Side is now, i think lifted. The Manufacturing Base to an extent where it is now much more competitive than it was even though it is not hiring, to the same extent. There is real transition that is about the trend or, for Defense Budget but then what about the rest of the budget if and or, are there other sources for delivering these services that are needed so that we can leverage. Unless there are any final words, well recognize there are a lot more topics where we havent come up with industrial policy for solving the was ton nationals decline among other topics. We have ful
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