Then at 8 p. M. Eastern, in depth, with peniel jost. And we conclude at 11 p. M. With angelo codeville ya, author of to make and keep peace among ourselves and all nations. That all happens next onp cspan2s booktv. Next, from the recent Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest, Monique Brinson demery talks row about her biography of theher former first lady of South Vietnam, madame nhu. This is about 45 minutes. Welcome, everyone. Its very good to see you hereth this morning, and its my goo pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madam new, madame nhu. Aff demery holds a masters degrees. From Harvard University in east asian regional studies, and when she made contact with madame nht who was the unofficial first lady of is South Vietnamese government in 19 2005, you were the first journalist toshe interview her in almost 20 years. And themlys based in chicago, and were happy to welcome you, ho anemic.
Off. The plane is taking off. As the north Vietnamese Army close in on saigon and South Vietnamese resistance crumbled, the skeletal staff of military personnel began to consider the imprisonment of their coworkers. With an official evacuation of South Vietnamese held up individual americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands to execute the evacuation and save as many South Vietnamese as possible. Ms. Kennedy talks about her career as a filmmaker. She is the daughter of Robert F Kennedy and ethel kennedy. Rory kennedy, can you remember when you first were even aware that there was a vietnam war . Well, i was 7 when the events took place that we document in the film of the last days of the war, which was 1975. You know, there is not a moment where i remember vietnam, but i feel like it was kind of in the ether of my childhood. It was in my consciousness. I have always felt this is a kind of seminal event in our nations history, and i was really happy to have the oppo
Fast as we can. We are pulling them on as fast as we can. Ercis sea of humanity. Its impossible to stop the crowd. We are pulling away. We are leaving them behind. We are falling away in the plainest taking up a. As the north Vietnamese Army closed in on saigon and resistance crumbled the skeletal staff of american diplomats and military personnel left in the country began to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, friends and coworkers. But with an official evacuation of South Vietnamese held up by congress and the American Ambassador individual americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands to execute the evacuation and save as many south at the mises possible. Ms. Kennedy also talks about her career as a filmmaker and her familys history. She is the daughter of robert f. Kennedy and apple kennedy. Cspan rory kennedy can you remember when your you were first to where there was a vietnam war . Guest well i was seven when
Legislative advisor and lobbyist for kissinger really by default because there was no such thing on the National Security council at the time. And when dick, and i was assistant to dick, when he took over the overall, that was all full of congressional relations because the subcommittee, the Foreign Affairs committee was holding a series of hearings, a major series of hearings on foreign commitments and overseas commitments of which the bases were a central part. So i became by default when dick left, the base study was my portfolio. I spent half of my time on the hell on what became a hill on what became a major onslaught on the vietnam policy. This was theforum for the end the war group at the time. And gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that ended up coming ended up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. Dick kaegel big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when he
Left, the base study was my portfolio. So i found myself spending half of my time on the hill on what became a major onslaught against the administrations the vietnam policy. This was sort of the forum for the end the war group at the time. And so gradually, since i was the only one doing that, anything that came up having to do with congress ended up on my desk. It was an opportunity for me because dick kaegel had a big portfolio when he left and everybody else was so busy in the National Security council with their own portfolios that suddenly when dick departed i was the only guy there with the inbox. So i ended up working on all of the classified issues, the war powers amendment and the european troop level reductions initiatives. It became a very busy time. It was a great experience for me. It was a great opportunity because by default i was the congressional relations person. And i stayed as henrys hill advisor for, until he left the white house, basically. You mentioned that you