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Professor, looking back 50 years to 1967 was it possible for the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wupt a war for the United States to win or lose. 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 but lbj had lost 47 democratic seats in the house and two in the senate. The war was damaging...

Professor lienhang nguyen, looking back 50 years to 1967, was it still possible at that point to the u. S. To win the war in vietnam . Simple answer, no. I would definitely say no. It wasnt a war for the United States to win or lose and by 1967 it was not in the cards. Mark lawrence, take us to the end of 1967 and politically the president ial elections are happening in 1968. Whats on the horizon for Lyndon Johnson . Well lbj was in a fair amount of political difficulty. In the 1966 elections th...

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 a...

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...

Cspan where history unfolds daily. Cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Here on cspan2, the senate dabbling in in 15 minutes to continue work on reauthorizing the house approved message on the fisa Surveillance Program and able to advance the plan for 5 30 eastern, 60 votes needed to limit debate on that. The house and senate will be working on funding the federal government past the deadline...

Entirety at cspan. Org. The senate about the gavel in, reauthorizing the house approved fisa program reauthorization. A vote on that set for 5 30. D the senate. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, the fountain of wisdom, as our lawmakers do the work of freedom, give them the assurance of your provisions and prevailing presence. Remind them of your promise to never leave or forsake your people. Nourish our senators, this day, with spiritual verities and moral qualities that will make our natio...

Dhs is complying with the court order. We have begun to accept renewals for daca. We are treating the program as preseptember last year, so if you are a current daca we will leave to go to capitol hill for a News Conference of senators talking about the National Security agencys Foreign Surveillance program. Live coverage here on cspan. Thank you for coming. What we have assembled today is a Diverse Group of senators from both sides of the aisle who are organizing together to filibuster the fisa...

The comments of the senator from new york state. Also he has talked about 702, and let me refer to that a bit. Section 702 is in s. 139, the amendments reauthorization act of 117. Were going to vote very soon whether to cut off debate and block any amendments on the fundamentally flawed piece of legislation that fails to reform one of our most important surveillance tools. Section 702 of the fisa Amendment Act was intended to provide for vast and powerful surveillance of foreigners overseas who ...

Quorum call a senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from hawaii. Ms. Hirono are we in a quorum call . The presiding officer we are in a quorum call. Ms. Hirono i i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Hirono mr. President , when donald trump was a private citizen during the last Government Shutdown, he said, and i quote, problems start from the to be, and they have to get solved from the top. And the president is the l...

Later today has been modified from what was originally sent over to the house, which was a fourweek continuing resolution. This, i believe, will be a threeweek continuing resolution, modified at the request of some democrats here in the senate. But i hope that we can get the government up and functioning again, mr. President. It is important in my view, that we do that. But theres been a lot of discussion throughout the course of the afternoon on the floor and in the previous days leading up to ...