Prof. Selverstone good afternoon, everyone. I am marc selverstone. Associate professor in president ial studies at the university of virginias Miller Center, and as chair of the centers president ial recordings program, id like to welcome you to a special panel, echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues on the recordings program. Its quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Its something of a reunion, in fact. Kent was with us for years and years, now spending time at the university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this
Historians to discuss the problem of low morale in the final years of the vietnam war. This discussion was part of an allday conference titled manpower and morale after tet hosted by the university of kansas, its an hour, 20 minutes. Id like to welcome everybody back for our afternoon session. My name is charles bowry, im the executive director of the u. S. Army center of u. S. Military history in washington, d. C. Id like to thank beth bailey and the ku center for host ting this great event as well as thanks to our historical colleagues at the u. S. Army combined arms center in fort lerch worth, kansas for their ongoing collaboration surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. The u. S. Army has more than 500 historians, Museum Professionals working around the world who do their best to ensure that the his tor c Historical Perspective and Critical Thinking skills generated by a study of history are leveraged throughout the army and make the army a learning o. The army History Program pr
Physical standards. Held at the university of kansas. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. We will begin or second session on the problem of morale and in order to mix up the format a little bit, we are having this time a series of short presentations, short talks by three participants. And then they will pullover chairs and sit in front to ask them questions. Our third participant jacquelyn rip who is an associate professor tried to leave from harrisburg yesterday morning on a 7 00 a. M. Flight and it turned out the earliest she would be able to come in because of a problem with the plane was 2 00 a. M. Yesterday. Shes not here with us. We have instead margory who is a graduate student and is going to read jackies paper. The questions will only be two the other two participants. Marjory is not going to try to answer questions for jackie. The speaker today, we begin with William Donnelly who is a senior historian. To be followed by eric flint who is the director of the u. S. Army muse
Final years of vietnam and the war. Part of manpower and morale after tet. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Id like to welcome everybody back. My name is Charles Bowery from washington, d. C. Id like to start off by thanking beth and the ku center for military war and Society Centers for hosting this and thanks to our colleagues for their ongoing collaboration in this and other events surrounding the vietnam 50th anniversary. The u. S. Army has more than 500 historians, Museum Professionals and archivists around the world to do their best to ensure the critical perspective and thinking skills are leveraged throughout the army and make the army a learning organization. The army History Program provides ability to results in a more effective future force and im honored to serve as this communitys advocate at this department of armys headquarters level. We had a great discussion about the problems of morale in the first tet offense and today we will built on that and talk about the ways the ar
Recordings program. Quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Kent was with us for years and years, spent time at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well l in, to explore dynamics there but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and the only we are institution of this kind doing transcribenalyze and the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 so franklin, roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the miller center. Well,it offsite as because so much work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint. The president ial recordings digital init