This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. 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, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 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 he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any number of pieces. Here on American History tv all weekend long we are focusing o
Historians, Mark Lawrence and lien hang nguyen on the legacy of the vietnam war. This is an hour and a half. Professor nguyen, looking back was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . No. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it definitely wasnt in the cards. 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, an important point but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. This was a significant setback. The war was damaging lbjs political popularity. I think what you see is a kind of breakup of that centrist coalition lbj had depended on and ridden so effectively in 1964 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 he had so effectively cobbled together was fracturing into any
Can actually provide ubiquitous access. Its a great mission. Host what are some of the companies you represent . Guest well, just this month i was able to spend time with alaska communications, flew down from there to western new mexico with western new mexico communications. Both focused on Rural Communities and extending next Generation Broadband Services to them. All the way up to companies that are national in scope and vision from at t and verizon and centurylink and consolidated, frontier, windstream. Its a consortium of companies that are very different, different Business Models but are bound together by a singular vision to get more broadband out to more americans and do so with smart policies. Host before we Start Talking about some of those policies, give us a sense of your background. Its a little bit eclectic, isnt it . Guest and ill take that as a compliment, thank you. I have been in the business of technology for a good part of my career, leading companies both in Silic
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