progressing on schedule. let s begin with spokes woman molly. this morning the traffic was light. we don t want people to think that is going to be the norm. we are experiencing heavier delays and over the weekend we expect major delays. delays just more than an hour ago with doyle drive closed you are looking at one lane approaches to the golden gate bridge from east and west. this not even a worst case scenario. many commuters stayed home this morning and others took alternate forms of transportation. the district reports 1,000 more people than usual took the ferries which means as many will try to make their way home tonight all from the final phase of a $1.1 billion project to rebuild a crucial artery before it falls down. take a deep breath and pray for it all to finish on time before the monday morning commute. all we can do right now is improvise, adapt and overcome. reporter: speaking of improvising, adapting and overcoming you are looking at live traffic tryi
that s live at 6:00 p.m. eastern also on c-span. american history tv on c-span3, features programs that tell the american story. this weekend we continue our special series on the 1966 vietnam hearings, 50 years later. we will hear a special consultant to president johnson followed by committee member questions. our purpose is equally clear and easily defined. in his speech of april 7, 1965, president johnson did so in the following terms. our objective is the independence of south vietnam and its freedom from attack. we want nothing for ourselves. only that the people of south vietnam be allowed to guide their own country in their own way. this has been our basic objective since 1954. it has been pursued by three successive administrations and remains our basic objective today. next saturday, secretary the state gives his testimony defending johnson s vietnam policies. for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to c-span.org. next, east carolina univer
gitmo detention center. carol rosenberg and two attorneys who represent guantanamo bay detainees. tune in at 8:00 pm eastern on c-span. each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation s college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday evening at 8:00 pm and midnight eastern. next, boise state university professor lisa brady talks about how chemical agents were used during the korean and vietnam wars to destroy the landscape and infrastructure. she argues that during this time, the u.s. military began to see foreign landscapes as an enemy rather than just an obstacle. she describes the reasons for various defoalization missions as well as damage to the environment and locals. her class is about one hour, 15 minutes. okay. so, today we re going to be talking about the wars in korea and vietnam from an environmental history perspective. many of you are quite well aware of the military side of things, how the wars progressed. i thin
i m interested to hear your thoughts on their relationship after the war, personal relationship and especially the fact that sherman advised grant not to enter politics at all. we know sherman s own view of presidential politics. can you shed some light on that and how it affected grant at all, or what counsel sherman may have given him? that s a good question. sherman was completely i shouldn t say a political. he was anti-political. he hated the whole game of politics and didn t want to get involved. i think he may have thought to grant, you know, you re unsuited for this. this is really not what you were cut out to do. senator john sherman was a politician, aspirate for the presidency. i think there was an element of tension then between sherman and grant because of that, that sherman may have thought that grant made some mistakes in become being president and particularly in the western policy, indian policy. i think sherman was much more sympathetic to sheridan s ide
but as you said a couple of times, mr. greenwood, we may not do these things until after the fact and that would be a tragedy. in conclusion, again, i want to thank all the witnesses and members who participated in today s hearing. members have ten business days to respond to the record. with that, this committee meeting is adjourned. more road to the white house coverage today from south carolina where donald trump holds a campaign event. live coverage at 5:00 p.m. eastern. at 6:00 also live on c-span senator marco rubio holds a town hall in chapin. we ll take viewer phone calls and talk to attendees. south carolina holds the presidential primary saturday. tonight at 8:00 each on c-span former counter terrorism director daniel rosenthal joins a discussion about guantanamo bay prison. two attorneys whepted detainees there. thomas wilne r talks about why the prison should be closed. guantanamo is terribly important to the country. i m worried about the people there. i want t