Cosponsors are listed in the program that you have received. My name is linda yar im a Research Professor here at the Elliott School and director of partnerships for International Strategies in asia. This is a program here at the Elliott School that partners directly with universities and Research Institutes across asia. And since 1994 weve had extensive work with universities and Research Institutes and Government Agencies in vietnam. We love to be able to also bring the voices of the region here. Here to washington. This week is devoted to waging peace in vietnam is especiall especially i would especially like to acknowledge the partnership with the institute of policy studies and their associate fellow ron carver. [applause] whom we will hear from animal today at many locations around the Nations Capital the service of veterans to our country is recognized with gratitude. We also remember that november h mark the day the guns, fell silent in europe and what was known then as the gre
I shall restein presidency effective at noon resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Hi. Im director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in california its my honor and privilege to take you on a tour today of our now watergate gallery. This was a challenge for us. I was asked to produce the gallery. It was one of my responsibilities when i joined the National Archives in 2006. Im a professional historian, but we write books. We generally dont do museum exhibits. So this is a challenge in public history. In other words, taking information and making it accessible to people who havent had a chance to prep for an exam before they walk into a new gallery. The other challenge is we inherited the National Archives took over the private Nixon Library. It was run from 1990 to 2007 by the private nixon foundations. We became responsible and one of the jobs was to make it a nonpartisan institution. We inherited a museum that was produced in the preweb period. So it la
16 billion in trade a year for both countries. Jobs rely on this network of transportation 150,000 jobs rely on this network. It is a part of our history and has been since precivil war. During prohibition, detroit is responsible for bringing in 75 of the illegal alcohol. For the 14 years of prohibition. Tocourse, that comes windsor, and canada. Trade in the 1800s in detroit, a city we know now is the motor city, was cigar capital of america. We were not only transporting in raw material, but out finish material. There were days in the 1860s we knew had 700010,000 Railroad Cars waiting to be transported that could knock it across the river because they would come into detroit via train, and wait for fairies to take them to canada. That backlog made the conversation about a tunnel or bridge take the national forefront by 1870. Something had to be done because we had storehouses filling up, waiting for this transportation that was very slow because fairies can only transport 5075 cars at
Follow us on twitter. Announcer military assistance command in vietnam were often small groups of u. S. Army teams does assigned to small areas supported only by South Vietnamese forces. Two recently had a reunion in charleston, south carolina. Up next, drawing upon their own experiences, two Vietnam Veterans get talk about efforts to assist agricultural rita veldman. Officials felt this would draw local support to u. S. Backed forces command away from the communist north. All right, that is a hard act to follow. Im going to be more academic, maybe. Only have the one and . Lide lets see if i can make this thing work. Lets review a little bit of the basic geography. Some of us may have forgotten. That is smack them in the delta. The mequon river, the mainstem of the north, the other river on the south. Headquarters to the delta south. There. Tioned up where the position was was about there. Four districts. , around the city. Wide base area, which was the security problem. Thecenterpiece
At west point. We started from the presupposition based on comments from senior civilian policymakers and senior military officers that we were in an era of persistent conflict for enduring war. We need to undertake a serious study of the relationship between more in society. It seems the few it seems that few could argue war has an indelible impact on our national character. Starting from the mission that we would exam the social, moral and cultural aspects of how societies go to war. And perhaps most importantly how they deal with wars consequences. We believe the program had global applications. In short we wanted the take a serious approach to the study the problems posed. Our vision was for Chapman University to become a National Resource for practitioners. A Program Designed with the old aim of understanding the rule and the costs of war around the globe. That vision is on full view this evening. From those who have fought in wars. Those who have fought long and hard about though