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thank you again. on the next washington journal, margot sanger-katz joins us, looking at health care insurance and costs. then sharon epperson on the 80th anniversary of social security and what the future holds for the program. later, a conversation on the u.s. foster care system, with the director of policy reform and advocacy. we ll also take your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal, live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. with the senate in its august break, we ll feature brook tv programming week nights, starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. for the weekends, here are a few special programs. saturday, august 22nd, live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival, beginning at 11:30 a.m. with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. september 5th, we re live from our nation s capital. followed on sunday with our live in depth program, with former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise ....
it just fell together as i went along. i think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. and i knew i didn t want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldn t make a life. i wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. and at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasn t sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all the way through the country, and i was in saigon and did the memory walk of the places i had lived. and i realized, there was a moment when it just hit me. i thought of my daughter who was then 8. and i wanted to go home. and i miss the life that i had created. and i think that was when i really realized that i had, i had done that, that i had somehow chosen or life had chose ....
almost every single one of them saluted back. it was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when you re talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. i guess, among many other things, i ve always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. i want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. i m going to take one second here. i was inside the pentagon working on the morning of 9/11, and as we came to understand the people who perished inside the pentagon, there was a man, older man, civilian, worked for the department of the army. his name was max bilky. you know who max was. max bilky died in the pentagon on 9/11. max as a young army draftee is listed in american history as the last combat american soldier out of vietnam, and he came home and he had a good life. that s good. by all accounts. and he died that morning. so ....
that was more important. when in the middle of that situation, the then-publisher didn t want to give us an option to buy it. he had it was for sale for $150,000. but we needed $1 million in order to go into business because it was losing a certain amount of money every year. i had told ham, it s useless if you don t have an option because who knows what will happen. so edgar came to a meeting with ralph nader, a man named ping ferry, who is a marvelous guy, and his wife, and ham and me, to get the option. they spoke eloquently, with edgar leading the way on why he ought to give the option and how, et cetera. so they had a funeral this morning for the family, and what i said there is i blame edgar for the next 20 years of my life, because he was as responsible as anyone else for my getting there. so i came to the nation when, finally, the funding was in place and we got the opportunity to go there. i, of course, had not finished naming names. i spent too much time ....
record of the nation during the andod of victor navasky from the current period when katrina vanden heuvel is the editor and leader of the nation. it is a great privilege, to have the records of a journal of opinion. the strength of our democracy believe rests on the survival of opinion, and the opportunity for the expression of those opinions. to be in a position, to protect forever this material is a great privilege. we now have the opportunity to learn some of the back story, magazine, so writing its 150th anniversary. i promised victor that i would start by asking how the heck he ended up coming to the nation. victor: thank you. edgar scame from funeral. he played a role that is not publicly known. was thedgar when he editor-in-chief and then publisher of dial press where he i see in the audience marvin, he would go to he wouldd say put his manuscript on the desk. edgar was working on what became the book of daniel, a great novel. i knew edgar from those day ....