Good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am Louise Mirrer the ceo and im thrilled to welcome all of you two are beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition vietnam war in 1945 to 1975 which i hope you had a chance to say but if not it is on view through april 22, so i hope you will return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program Edward Lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam is the petraeus lecture on leadership. We created the series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger hertog and David Petraeus who both won our history maker awarded 2013 that like to thank mr. Hertog for his incredible leadership and support and now as chair and marriages of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for his generous participation over the past four years and this illustrious lecture series. Thanks so much to both of you. [applause] i would like to thank a
Hate the war. Love the warrior. Peace out. Thank you. [ applause ] the cofounder for the center for earth energy and democracy and the director of the naacp environmental and Climate Justice program take part in a discussion on Climate Change and globalization. The new republican hosts and we have live coverage tomorrow starting at 9 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Voters in the uk vote on june 23rd whether to remain part of the european union. The Heritage Foundation hosted discussion on the Global Implications of the referendum. Thats live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Stan rather and peter arnett now talk about their work on the front lines of the vietnam war. This panel part of a conference at the lbj president ial library in austin, texas, on conflict. From American History tv, this is an hour. Thf i think this is the second or third day that i was in vietn vietnam. They were trying to get to a ridge line. Just before you get to the high ridge over there. Then as they began to
There will be a book sale. All three books will be available at the end of the program and just reminder also that a portion of the sale of each book goes into the virginia festival of the book program itself. The sessions are being recorded so during the question and answer period this is important because of the reporting of the programs. Please raise your hand and one of the volunteers of the festival will hand you a handheld microphone so your question can be heard and paid for however it hits the broadcast. The reason we have a wonderful program, features jan herman, the author of the lucky few the fall of saigon and the rescue mission of the uss kirk. This will be the order of their presentation. Second to speak will be general ira hunt, losing vietnam, how america abandoned Southeast Asia. He is a retired Major General and moderated his last book at the book festival. The chief medical historian, Frank Leith Jones, has offered offered 7 books for military history. And finally, F
The new book the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan. Cspan michael, why did you call the book the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan . Other than the operators the wild and terrifying inside story of americas war in afghanistan is what special forces call themselves. They call themselves special forces operators. It refers to special operators. I thought everyone involved in the conflict from diplomatics to journalists to Public Relations people, to aid workers had a bit of an operator in there to people in the white house to people in the embassy in afghanistan. Cspan you total all the time you spent in iraq and afghanistan and the number of trip you made, what are the numbers . Guest a lot of time in disr a lot more time in iraq an afghanistan. For the book i did four trips to afghanistan. A good chunk of i think i spent four of my last five christmases or four of the last six christmases in either
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