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Host a lot of documentaries and other serial with the dock vietnam war, why was your version needed . Constantlyill be discussing vietnam for as long as we are a country. Unfortunately, we have spent most of the last 42 years since the fall of saigon not discussing it and so much new information and new access to vietnam with veterans coming forward with their stories and people involved, protests. What this film does, what we tried to do is aggregate all of the most recent scholarship and speak to veterans from the United States and people across a wide spectrum of american views, because we have no political agenda or asked to write. We are umpires. Interviewing people in North Vietnam and south vietnam, and civilians and soldiers to get a ,60 view and a space to finally after decades of rancor and to talk about it, find a way to do it. We had an underwriter in bank of ,meric ....
Ken and lynn have made a new tv series about the vietnam war, we talked to them about the program on the washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Nu joining us now or can burns and ling, the vietnam war which airs on sunday, thank you for coming on the program a lot of stuff and information have come out with the vietnam war, why do you think your version was needed out there. I think will be constantly but unfortunately we have spent more so the last 42 years not discussing it. Theres been so much new information, veterans are coming forward with their story and people involved are coming does, forward. What i think it does is aggregate the most recent scholarship and speak to the veterans of the United States and we have no political agenda, but also interview people in North Vietnam and civilians and soldiers to get a 360 view of it and create a space where we cane finally fi ....
It is one hour and 10 minutes. This,m with weather like it almost seems a shame we are spending time indoors. What a beautiful afternoon. But thanks for coming back. We have an Excellent Program for you for the rest of the afternoon. I mentioned this morning that our first or second speaker are so prolific that that seems to be a theme of our faculty this year. With our next speaker being an incredibly prolific writer, many of you know his work. He has written on a variety of topics. His for volume history of the civil war is something you need to do so. An outstanding series of books. He has written about appomattox. Andersonville. The alabama. And he is in the process and is almost finished with his next book, already. One book comes out when year and the other is in the pipeline. I think it will be a very interesting book. Is the subjectay of his most recent published book about the secretary of war. , edwin stanton. William ....
We are rejoining the symposium on Abraham Lincolns life at the ford theater. This is live coverage on cspan3 American History tv. The incoming president of the Abraham Lincoln institute, associate officer john white, whose opinion carries a lot more written an mine has review of steves book for the journal of American History. Let me quote from johns review. Gathering to save the nation will stand for years as the book on lincolns relationship for union governors. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the north mobilized to win the civil war. It is my pleasure to present professor stephen engle. [applause] thank you, bob. What a wonderful introduction and thank you for that preview of a review that i can hope to receive in a few month ....