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Don richie, you brought ari book with you called vietnam hearings. What was this book . This book was printed in 1966. Its 50 years old. It was a book i used when i was teaching a course on American History in the 1960s. I was at the university of maryland and we used this book because it was exsermts of hearings that senator fulbright convened on the vietnam war in 1966 and it was the proponents, the supporters of the war, people like dean dusk and general Maxwell Taylor aopponens of the war like general james gavin. And they were being interrogated by senators who were on both sides of the w...

Includes his opening statement, many questions and cant comments from senators. First, Donald Richie discusses the significance of the hearing. You brought a book with you called vietnam hearings. What is this book . Donald ritchie it was a book i used when i was teaching American History in the 1960s at the university of maryland. It was this book because experts in the hearings senator fulbright had convened on the vietnam war in early 1966. It was both proponents and supporters of the war, people like dean rusk and general Maxwell Taylor, and opponents of the war, like general gavin. We cou...

1966 and it was both the proponents, the supporters of like dean and general Maxwell Taylor and gavin. Cannon and general and we could teach this by showing the students both sides of the argument. Were being they interrogated by senators who are on both sides of the argument. Got to look at what the issues were and get some idea of defense was and what the opposition was to the war in vietnam. Really useable wasnt at came out that thats sly partisan and why the hearings were so important because they presented oth sides of the issues and it enabled the American People to hear from people who ...

Supporters of the war, people like dean rusk and general Maxwell Taylor, and opponents like general gavin. We could teach this by showing the students both sides of the argument. They were being interrogated by senators on both sides of the argument, so you got to look at what the issues were and got some idea of what the defense wasand what the opposition to the war in vietnam. It was one of the first really usable books that came out. It was not enormously partisan one way or the other about the war, and that is why those hearings were so important, because they did present both , and it the...

And all i am trying to do here, paul, is identify a problem and a course and possible solutions for the American People and hope that bubbles up to the grassroots political process so that you all in government and think tanks can get the job done that you know needs to be done. There is no question that things can go bad. Thank you, everyone, for coming. I really appreciate this. If anybody wants any information about that, crouching tiger. Net. Thank you so much, peter. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] James Thurber explores the challen...