2k3w god, did we do that . Citizens get all excited at the beginning, then all of a sudden, people are dying, killing each other, thats not 2k3w50good. Then the support drops off. I hear ted cruz, we ought to bomb them. 2 ted, youre not going to bomb them. Youre not going to do any fighting. Youre too damn old. You might not have been any good when you were young. I dont know. [ applause ] and some of it is a little bit connected what chuck was saying because we still tend to over dramatize and clean it up. Its not all bad to do that. But as sit accecitizens, i thin studying history is really hard. The historians have enabled us to understand lots of things that we didnt know before which can be painful as well. But its the difficulty. When you say, oh, god, is that who we were . The hardest thing is to say were going to go on. Thats why i emphasize the proudest thing i did in the United States senate, i participated in the Peace Agreement in come body ya aambo oh, sure. And its working. Were making peace. And i repeat it, peace is hard. You know, you got to make decisions that group decisions. You never get perfection in those moments and youre always going to find some wind bag on the sidelines whos going to be criticizing you. [ laughter ] i think you said that perfectly. I dont think theres anything i can add to it. [ laughter ] who would dare speak after it. Listen, we are running short on time. But let me wrap things up with a very straightforward and quick question. Is there a lesson of the vietnam war that we havent, whether or not here or perhaps other sessions, have not hit upon that you would like to put on the table of huge consequence or potentially of minute consequence . One very quick one is instead of having individual rotation, we have unit rotation. And i have long thought that individual rotation was counterproductive. If you can get unit rotations, people come in ready to work and carry out their mission together. If you have you constantly got a couple brandnew people youre trying to familiarize with the whole situation and a couple people that are shorttimers counting down the days, it undermines morale and makes it more difficult for the commander. If theres any big Lesson Learned between vietnam and the more recent experience, i would say its unit rotation, not individual rotation. Which is exactly again to the senator robbs point. We learned that lesson from vietnam. Again, its hard to do that, but it is a lesson the army did have these issues in vietnam with individual rotations. I know again when iraq started, that was one of the very first decisions going back to this because of that problem. I guess i would offer, something that was raised last night, both gentlemen here have talked about it today. The complexity of any war. And you have to be careful about taking the wrong lessons away from the war. Sometimes, we allow historians to interprterinterpret what the the archives and draw those lessons. Those lessons become the lessons of our history. Right, wrong or indifferent, thats what happens sometimes. You need to have somebody who does that. I dont want to dismiss that, but these things are very, very complex. Thats why i think Something Like the vietnam war summit here is is important to have the opportunity to hear both sides of the story and then kind of we need to collectively or individually make our own judgments about what was right and what was wrong. Look, i think here history is a very good guide. I speak to on behalf and to civilia civilians. I think of two great examples. Neither of them were connected to the vietnam war. The first is gandhi who insisted were going to have a multireligious nation. He died because of it. The more eloquent one, said any fool can make peace of a friend. Its making peace with an enemy thats hard. He did. He was at war with Yasser Arafat and he died because of it. Making peace is hard because you get criticized. People say youre weak. In my own view, real men do diplomacy as well. [ applause ] well, i think one thing that has become clear over the last three days is that the vietnam war entails an infinite number of questions and an unending amount of controversy. The best we can hope for is to have the debate at a higher level of sophistication and knowledge. These three gentlemen have helped us think about these very weighty matters on a higher plane, so thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, director of the lbj president ial library. Ladies and gentlemen, we conclude the vietnam war summit today with a poem written by First Lieutenant timothy schlink, second battalion first infantry, 196th light infantry brigade. It was based from september 1966 to june 1967. After losing his best friend in battle, he wrote this poem to his father while trying to express his feelings. And the poem is called i must go on. We fought together six months today, as i rolled other, there he lay. His eyes were open. His chest clenched tight. The look of death, a look of fright. I knew right then that he was dead and wondered why not me instead. His life was short, not many years. Full of hope, yet full of fears. We talked and laughed of times gone by. And never thought that one would die. But here he lay, no breath of life, no thought of home or his young wife. I turn my head and looked away. I fought the words i could not say. Hes dead. Hes dead and gone, but i am here and must go on. I must go on. This summit is dedicated to those americans who passed on in vietnam during the course of the war. Those whose names are on the wall that heals outside of this very 3wi8d i very building. And those who went on from vietnam. May i ask all the veterans in the auditorium to stand and be recognized, please. [ applause ] thank you all for your service to this nation and thank you all for being here today. Thank you. [ applause ] thursday, a discussion on combatting al qaeda and isis. The group gafta hosts a discussion with a political advisor via skype. Were live from the National Press club at 8 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Thursday, American History tv on cspan3 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the church committees final report on federal intelligence activities. The Senate Select committee to study governmental operations held hearings on intelligence activities by the cia, fbi, irs and nsa. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan3. Ativan vanityfair. Com, th headline, how donald trump with eat hillary lunch. Joining us on the phone from seattle, contributing writer t. A. Frank. You outline three ways in which you say donald trump could soundly beat Hillary Clinton. Which of the three in your mind is most compelling . The one thats most likely to work for him is the least sexy, you could say. Its simply demographics and share of voting blocs. The one thats most fun to think about is his relative freedom and relative i say to any other candidate that has occupied the head of the republican ticket for a long time. Or a democratic ticket. You could go through a long list of issues that donald trump is facing moving into the general election, the investigation into trump university, his outburst yesterday at the media in new york, it seems that at every turn, the rules just dont seem to apply to donald trump. Why . Well, well see now whether they apply. They didnt apply in the primaries because the very thing that he was doing which was appalling everyone was at heart what made him appealing to his fed up supporters in the Republican Party who felt that they needed to take a wrecking ball to the institution. However, people who are fed up with washington are not confined to the Republican Party. So there may be a bigger audience for him than we think. As we see from the latest polls in which hes tightening things up quite a bit. In your essay, you write that donald trump is a better politician, he doesnt seem like a nice guy, but he is gifted at connecting with voters and journalists. Hillary clinton is not. Can you explain . Well, i think that when donald trump starts a conversation about something, we all get talking about it. And when Hillary Clinton tries to start a conversation about it, it doesnt often succeed and often the conversation winds up about something she doesnt want us to talk about. Its hard to explain that other than to say that some people have a real political gift that you you cant really quantify, but certainly Hillary Clintons husband has it and donald trump seems to have it for some reason. And thats just the luck of the year. So how does her Campaign Based in brooklyn, new york, respond to donald trump in which has so far been a very Unconventional Campaign . What do you think her strategy needs to be . It is very difficult to respond to someone as unpredictable and as unwilling to play by normal etiquette as donald trump. In life in general, when someone is doing the wrong thing, its hard to respond in an exact right way. I think that actually becoming a little more unguarded, it may be Hillary Clintons best way to succeed. And also to give donald trump the rope to hang himself. He is often his own worst enemy. So much attention on the popular vote. But lets look at the electoral map. It favors the democrats in november, if you base it on previous election cycles. Right. They have a clear majority. They come in with the electoral votes, a great advantage in the electoral college. However, it does not take a large increase in the share of white voters for the entire elections that turn republican. That is an interesting thing that latest tools of election analysis and algorithms allow us to see than ever before. So trumps strategy what seems to be a strategy of maybe holding onto what nonwhite support the Republican Party already had and then building by a few Percentage Points among white voters, that could work in putting him over the top. Donald trump has said he thinks he can wib in states like pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida, even california. How does he overcome that . Right. Well, hes not going to win california, i think. That that was very trumpy and bluster there. He overcomes it mainly by being not quite so unfavorable as his opponent is. Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton, she also has high unfavorable ratings. So its really a less ugly contest in many ways. If he pushes them down a bit, he can still be quite competitive provided that she is unable to push hers down. Were still in a contested democratic primary. Who has room for growth moving into conventions this summer in the Fall Campaign . They both have room for growth. But Hillary Clinton will benefit greatly from the from winning the nomination and putting the primaries behind her. At this time, when barack obama and Hillary Clinton were still struggling against each other, john mccain was polling several points ahead of barack obama in hypothetical president ial matchups and we all know how that turned out. The story is Available Online at vanityfair. Com. Its also available on the hive. T. A. Frank joining us from seattle with the headline, three ways in which donald trump could beat Hillary Clinton. Thank you for being with us. Thank you again. Madam secretary, we proudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the United States [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] American History tv on cspan3, saturday night at 10 00 eastern on real america more than 110,000 cubans flee cuba. They come the 140 kilometers to key west, florida, in nearly 2,000 boats. Why do they come . Why are there so many . During the spring through fall of 1980, approximately 125,000 cuban refugees arrived in florida from the port of mariel cuba. Find out why they left. Sunday morning at 10 00, the 1992 testimodemocratic and repu conventions. In the name of the hard working americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i producedly accept your nomination for president of the United States. And incumbent president jr george h. W bush accepts his partys nomination in houston. Im proud to receive and honored to accept your nomination for president of the United States. At 4 45, barry lewis on the creation and evolution of new york city greenwich village. East of 6th avenue was august square, nobody ever crossed that line. Now, the people from west of 6th avenue might cross the line to work as a servant in Washington Square. But believe me, the people in Washington Square never went on the other side of 6th avenue. On the presidency every time i look at washington, its unanimous. Unanimously commander in chief, unanimously president of the constitutional convention. Unanimously reelected president of the United States, unanimously appointed of all the armys raised or to be raised in the service of the United States. What a record. Peter enriquez explores that even though washington was officially retired. Coming up on 3, American History tv and prime time feetures programming on the vietnam war. We have coverage from day three of the Lyndon Johnson vietnam war summit. A 50th anniversary retrospective on the conflict. Next on American History tv, a panel of vietnam war veterans, including two prisoners of war and an army nurse discuss their grim reality of life, death and suffering in vietnam. The discussion was moderated by National Endowment for the humanities chairman william add apps and part of a threeday conference at the lbj library in austin, texas, titled the vietnam war summit. It is about an hour and ten minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc unit at the university of texas at austin and the pledge of allegiance led by United StatesMarine Corp Corporal kimberly burres. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc. [ music playing ] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. Gregory al findes, from the university of texas at austin. [ applause ]. Well, thank you. I didnt get a promotion that i did not deserve. Four more years. Good afternoon and welcome to the final day of the vietnam war summit. I would like to take a few moments to thank everybody who participated in the sessions during these past few days. The locals here in austin and the many guests and participants who traveled from across the country to make this summit such a powerful experience. Congratulations to mark upgrove, director of the lbj president ial library. [ applause ] and his fantastic team in the organization. Thank you to the lbj foundation for supporting this summit and looking at the legacy of lbj, but also the entire aspects of the vietnam war. For the past two days, weve examined the vietnam war from multiple perspectives. From that of at least four u. S. President s in their role as leaders of American Foreign policy, and their roles as commanders in chief. Weve looked at it from the point of view of veterans who returned to the country, returned to their homes in a nation divided. Explored their psychological and physical trauma that the veterans faced upon coming home and still grapple with today. We looked at from the point of view of the media, that covers the war that eventually divided the nation. And finally, today we will look at it from multiple perspectives, also. Now before we get to that, just a few hours ago i participated in an incredible ceremony that is part of the summit. A veterans recognition ceremony just outside on the plain plaza and i hope everybody here has attended one of those recognition ceremonies. I had the honor of presenting the vietnam veteran recognition pins to several who served the nation. I heard their stories, where they served in vietnam, forward observer, infantrymen, artillery, a pilot. Some of them showed me photographs of them in vietnam. One veteran showed me the draft notice that he received that called him to serve our nation. These are incredible stories, each and every one and it is an honor to recognize the veterans here today. And now this afternoon, we will hear firsthand about the daily reality of war from those who were there. Our First Program today is titled the troops, a few from the front lines. Please join me in welcoming car onny forester who serves on the National Board of p. O. W. And m. I. A. Families. Car onny. [ applause ] good afternoon. My name is core onny forester. My father, captain ron forester, United States marine corp, is still missing in action in north vietnam. He is only one of 1621 americans who are still missing from the war in vietnam. 104 of them are also texans. He is only one of 3417 texans who sacrificed their lives in vietnam. But he is the only one that i call daddy. My family, like all in my family, still wait for answers. And my family, like our gold star families, missed their loved ones every day. And we greatly thank our Vietnam Veterans, for it is you who stand by our side and hold us up, even though many Vietnam Veterans still work to resolve their own demons and we cant forget the veterans families because they served too. [ applause ] for pow mia families, gold star families, and for many of ou