vietnam? what type of relationship would china like to have if it could get everything that it wanted out of the relationship? [ speaking foreign language ] >> so what does vietnam want from u.s., and what does china want out of vietnam? >> so, as dr. pan said, about 25% of vietnam's trade is with china. it's growing very fast with the united states. that's for sure. but vietnam gets so many of its inputs from china that it feels -- and a lot of it is exported, you know, so it's inputs for garments, the thread, the cloth, everything. under the tpp, that would have changed very phenomenally, and the chinese entrepreneurs even realized this, so as the tpp progressed, vietnamese companies increasingly were setting up shop in vietnam, because they wanted to be able to access the forward provisions, which means you -- to get cheap tariffs for goods coming into the united states, you had to buy the inputs from another tpp country. so, but they feel -- so, vietnam really wants more balance in trade,

vietnam. so actually china and vietnam shared many common customs. now let's go to the topic we are discussing today, which is the vietnam issues. it is more than a bilateral relation in general. they says stegman a speech delivered by the president of china during his 2015. china and vietnam have the same political system, same identity and believes, and we shared a mutual assistance because china has a common bilateral issues. .. >> to expressed wishes to the people in each other's country. this is the development of the issues in the past year. in 2018 china and vietnam the anniversary of the the comprehensive strategies. this is the most important bilateral relations that vietnam has only two countries in the world, china and russia. how should we understand the statements in the vietnam conquest and the interaction between the leaders of vietnam and china. i think it could be embodied in the following three parts. the first part is great importance to the leadership in china and vietnam.

in vietnam? well, i think that ultimately he felt that the united states needed a win and it's in the war against communism. there had been the bay of pigs defeat and the erection of the berlin wall and he said that he thought vietnam was the place where the united states could take a stand. >> of course, president kennedy is assassinated in 1963 and lyndon johnson takes over. we move next to the johnson administration. johnson sets the stage and part of that stage was set before he was re-elected in 1964 with the gulf of tonkan incident. you will show us a cable, a document regarding a uss maddox. tell us about this. >> yes. this cable is about the second attack, tonkan gulf attack and there was one on august 2nd and it was the august 4th attack that this cable refers to. it's the second cable that the captain of the "uss maddox" which was the ship, the american ship that was believed to have been under torpedo attack by the north vietnamese, and in the first cable he said they were under contin

to use the -- vietnam and the history of vietnam is a search for blame. as a historian, that might not be the best value of history. history is an opportunity for us to place blame. rather, it is an opportunity for us to gain perspective. i think one of the best things we can take about the can burns and lynn novak documentary is for the opportunity to empathize with folks we disagree with. the impact of that documentary is to see this complex conflict through the eyes of so many people who disagreed. ,ntiwar activists, journalists writers from the national liberation front. propaganda officers. south vietnamese officers and civilians, american military commanders, young marines families who lost their sons. women who served as nurses and in the red cross, and many of these voices often times during the war were in conflict with themselves or each other, is toe value of history empathize with those voices, not to seek blame. i think that is an important thing for us to consider as we look back on vietnam. the last thing i would like to suggest is, as we l

so how does he end up in vietnam? >> the signal to success where he basically masterminded the rebellion say he was the flavor of the month in the eisenhower administration he became a champion and in iran they masterminded so then in 1954 is a geneva conference held to divide the north and south vietnam with the north under communist control and question was how would you have a viable and basically the consensus within the eisenhower administration was we don't want tto send a love of american troops so let's have that with the marching orders. >> had they gone over there first you would see he had been disgusted by it because you can't have these faces trying to win a war in vietnam that the french as long as they were fighting to control for themselves would never prevail because they would never defeat the enemies nationalism and he knew that. >> so ultimately somewhere around six or seven years in vietnam this first tour in the mid-50s then comes home and goes back. let's talk about the first tour that encourage

in the capital of south vietnam. people still living there call at saigon. i was in a replacement unit and they came and instead how many of you have an infantry in the west and put us on the perimeter so we were involved in it and trying to keep them out out the base. it was a huge base and after a couple ofin days that's when i t orders to go to the calvary and up there it was just as crazy. >> most people if you bought the ken burns special or you are familiar with serving in vietnam or new people who did the north is the area that was right next to the so-called demilitarized zone so all the north vietnamese regular troops filtered down through that area. the marines have a lot of courses up there as well. it was a tank unit. major fighting at that time was occurring where tom pagels movement was then places like caisson. that whole area was all under attack. >> you both sent in a request to serve together. whatever happened with the red cross idea that you could get a country to send chuck on. me.hey never got b

that is the metric of vietnam. with those statistical reductions of war that are so familiar again. >> so they develop population centric counterinsurgency how many troops are on the ground? maybe a few dozen. maybe ten assistance and that is it. >> even mine you don't with get your luck with those individuals. >> they also made some of their own look -- lock. >> just like the prime minister of iraq has a do a standby. so the very important achievement is he gets elected and sadly for only a few years. >> dies on a tragic airplane crash that was one of the great tragedies of filipino history because after he was gone it was back to the same old corruption and the rise of marcos. >> and that flies and again by the way the aircraft is piloted by the chief of staff of the air force as i recall he new fighters very well so of course we talk about pat kelly so how does he end up in vietnam? >> to signal success philippines to mastermind against the hook rebellion obviously the flavor of the month with the eisenhower adm

so did wes. >> what was it like living in vietnam? >> well, you know, if you have children, you understand that you're really kind of scared most of the time, if you want to know the truth, but you're not going to show your children that you're scared. and they were -- the children there were absolutely wonderful. >> mmm-hmm. >> i mean, they protected one another. they -- we had movies at the house and they would -- i mean, you all were -- there wasn't really a bad cookie that i know of in the -- in the crowd. and they had -- you all had a really good time. unfortunately, they saw the -- the boys saw "the great escape" and they started digging a tunnel in our house and they -- that was your main and west went down in it and came out dead white. because it was some tunnel. >> wow. and i heard he had ordered some wood after that, right? to shore it up. >> to kind of hold it up. they all had sores because, oh, dear. >> how was the vietnamese culture? >> it's lovely. they are a beautiful people. and i -- my main work was red cross, and i

vietnam from 1964 to '68. then kenneth carlson, a combat veteran who grew up in a military family and later taught at a military academy. and later, henry "hank" thomas, a combat medic, civil rights activist and one of the 13 founding freedom riders. katherine westmoreland, wife of u.s. army general william westmoreland who commanded u.s. forces in vietnam talked about her life as a military daughter, sister and spouse. she recounted her time living in vietnam and serving as a red cross nurse's aide during the war and recalled hosting presidents and first ladys as well as her friendship with bob and dolores hope. this interview is just over an hour. >> good evening, ma'am. today is the 1st of october, 2016, and we're in the west point center for oral history, and i'm here with katherine stephens van deusen westmoreland, but you go by kitsy. >> right. that's right. >> ma'am, could you please spell your last name for the transcriber. >> w-e-s-t-m-o-r-e-l-a-n-d. >> thank you, ma'am. tell me about your childhood.

but for me and the other vietnam vets, black vietnam vets, the country was changing, and it did change. and while we still had some problems there in vietnam and black soldiers who came back '65, '66, '67 had lots of problems, but they were nowhere near the intensity of ill treatment that world war ii black vets suffered when they came back. >> so, where were you deployed in vietnam? >> i was in the central highlands. and we landed at a city called quin yan and traveled over land to enke in the central highlands. november of that year was the year that the first large american unit had contact with the north vietnamese unit and what was called the battle of the adrian valley. book written about it and a movie. somebody asked me did i see mel gibson over there. i said, no, i'm afraid i didn't. didn't get a chance to see mel gibson. i understand he won that war for us, though. but i was at the tail end of that battle. by this time i was in the army what is called a senior medic, and i had four other medics serving under me. two of them -- three of them were killed. two of them were kille

want to volunteer to go to vietnam. and i recall vividly in the orderly room there was this stunned silence, and they put me in the back of the room and said, son, come back here. they brought a chaplain in, and they brought i think a security officer in, because immediately they thought something was very suspicious. i was running away from a crime or something was wrong. that eventually i stayed there for two weeks, got new orders to go to vietnam, went back home, for a few days, and then went to california and processed out for vietnam. >> then about four weeks later, i ended up in fort dix, new jersey. remember riding from the airport and the back would open and two and a half ton army truck, and it was freezing, deep snow, and i remember driving by the px, and i saw this poor guy -- this is about midnight -- poor guy, walking -- a little trail around the px -- this is new jersey, united states, not exactly a lot of enemies around. -- with a rifle which i'm sure was empty, walking around the px in his little trail w

interviewer: what was it like living in vietnam? katherine: well, you know, if you have children, you understand, that you're really kind of scared most of the time if you want to know the truth. but you're not going to show your children that you're scared. and they were -- the children there were absolutely wonderful. i mean, they protected one another. we had movies at the house. and they would -- i mean, you were -- there wasn't really a bad cookie that i know of in the crowd and they had -- you all had a really good time. tim. unfortunately, the boys saw "the and they started digging a tunnel in our house. they went down in it and came out dead white. [laughter] interviewer: and i heard he had ordered -- katherine: he did. sores, becaused -- oh, oh, dear. katherine: -- interviewer: how was the vietnamese culture? katherine: it's lovely. they are a beautiful people. , andin work was red cross i really worked -- almost every day i worked in the vietnamese hospital. then i went and once a week to do red cross work. interviewer: wo

then i figured there is no place for armor in vietnam, so i'm going to go infantry. >> was vietnam starting to get ramped up? >> yeah. >> what were you hearing about vietnam as a cadet? >> not much other than the communists were invading the place and we were trying to protect them and save them and stuff. we were there for the noble cause. >> ok. how was graduation for you? >> it was wonderful. >> were your folks able to come up? >> my dad was. that was neat. >> what did he think about it, when was the first time your dad came up to west point? >> graduation. >> what did he think of the place? >> he was impressed. he doesn't say a lot about being impressed, but he was. >> after graduation, tell me about some of the courses you had before you got out to your unit. >> basic force, jump school, ranger. i guess that was it. then i got to the 82nd which was great. >> who are you with? >> 325 alpha company. >> you arrived in time for the dominican republic. tell me about that? that is something of a whole know about. >> that was excellent. i had my second company commander then. my first one was

david: i ask all vietnam veterans or united states veterans that served during the vietnam era from 1955 to may 15 of 1975 to stand and be recognized. [applause] welcome home. thank you for your service. as you exit the theater after the program, national archive staff and volunteers will present each of you with a vietnam veteran lapel pin. on the back of it is embossed our grateful nation thanks and honors you. the united states vietnam war commemoration is a national initiative and the lapel pin is a lasting memento of thanks. in february 1973, u.s. military transport planes carry the groups of released american prisoners of war from vietnam to american bases. after several weeks of ferrying servicemen to freedom, operation homecoming returned 591 pows home. one of them carried james shively, whose six-year imprisonment was at last at an end. after his return, he married his high school sweetheart and raised her two young daughters as his own. one of those girls, five-year-old amy, grew up to tell his story. after her stepfather passed away of2006, amy became aware audio recordings th

my time in vietnam made me who i am. since then, there has never been a -- the worst day of business as a civilian is a walk in the park. it puts everything into perspective. but to answer your question, i did go back to vietnam on one or two occasions working for "life." i'd identified one story that i thought was very relevant. i had a hard time selling it to the editors. i finally did and i went back. and the story that i had presented and eventually did was the -- we chose an individual, followed him for a period of time. he was an infantryman in the army. and then followed him back through his transition back into civilian life. and i was of the belief that this was a period in our country's history where that transition, where you came back as less than a hero and that it was not an easy transition. so i went back to do that. but my career as a war photographer was short lived. i went on to do many things and i came back at a time when there was a lot of unrest. "life" assigned me to the d.c. bureau. i worked the w

how does he end up over in vietnam? >> he have this single success in the philippines where he in fact basically masterminded the hook rebellion. he was all this with the flavor of the month and eisenhower demonstrations and became allen dulles the cia director and ron who masterminded the election. then in 1954 you have the situation where the french were being seated. there is a geneva conference with the north under communist control and the question was how would you have a viable non-communist state in south vietnam and basically the consensus within the eisenhower demonstrations was okay we don't want to send of a lot of american troops so let's get add lansdale do in vietnam would have been the philippines. those were literally his marching orders from allen dulles. citi having gone over there, he said you can't have these white faces trying to win the war in vietnam and the french as long as they were fighting would never prevail because they would never defeat nationalism and he knew that if french warfare was

you went to vietnam. when you came back from vietnam, if you were injured, you came back to where? >> i tried to go back to school at howard university. but i had obligations to take care of. my sister came to live with me in d.c. she was subject of abuse by my stepfather, her father, so she came to live with me. i had this thing, i had family to take care of it. i couldn't do that by working a part-time job. so i came back later on. i did not have a lot of the post combat stress that some of the vietnam veterans had. i think mine was delayed if you will. i did see some things in vietnam that even today i try to talk about them. i get emotional. civilians in war and any modern war always get caught in the middle of the soldiers, whether it eat north vietnamese soldiers, whether it was us, civilians get caught in the middle. accidental tire or artillery shell in the wrong village, all of these, they kill people. they kill children. so as a medic, i saw, other soldiers saw it too but as a medic i saw some o

that inner conflict i had when i went to vietnam. there was more than once in vietnam that i'm thinking what am i doing here? i am reading about all the stuff going on back home. for me, and the other black vietnam vets, the country was changing. it did change. we still had some problems there in vietnam and black soldiers who came back in 1965 and 1966 and 1967 had lots of problems. they were nowhere near the intensity of ill-treatment that world war ii black veteran suffered when they came back. host: where were you deployed in vietnam? hank: i was in the central high lands. we landed in a city called chignon. november of that year was the year that the first large american unit had contact with the north vietnamese unit in what was called the battle of the entering valley. valley.n somebody asked did i see mel gibson over there? i said no, i did not get a chance to see no gibson. i understand he won that war for us. i was at the tail and of that battle. by this time in the army, i was what was called a senior medic. i had three ot

in vietnam. i have an article from vietnam magazine, and i published an article in this in 2009 called, "my whole family served in vietnam." ae interesting part is that lot of people say my dad or brothers served, but not many people can say my mom served in vietnam. my dad was the deputy chief of the mad under hanging sam from under mag hanging sam williams. he was the head of 50 or 60 americans. my dad was a brigadier and there was another brigadier. we lived in a nice mansion with servers and drivers. they had to go on the social circuit every night for three or four things a night. it was really bothering my mother for two reasons, she started to become an alcoholic and she was on high heels hours on end and started to hurt her back. in the middle of my second year there -- >> what year was this? col. kenneth carlson: this was 1957 and 1958. i got there in 1957 and we came home at the end of 1958. one conference my dad was coming were timed about where they were supposed to be, he talked to s

a lot of famous movies about vietnam. and there's one movie that shows like this helicopter coming for some entertainment for the troops you know you're experience one of the no. i'm sorry i haven't the only thing i didn't bring the playboy bunnies into hamburger hill i know what they did was they brought to us so girls right in to opposition. for i guess a half an hour and were just stared in from like a hundred yards away now we got to talk with them and they just were nice and they were just nice and we just like sit down and just having a conversation so to speak because we didn't have anyplace else to go actually because the position we were at was on top of a mountain. and then they. lifted back out. how long were you. active in vietnam that was the first tour and i was always only there for one tour i extended my time so i could. get in early out of this or i stayed fourteen months. total because they only had two years in the service if you had eighteen months when you return to the united states to get out of the

forces in vietnam from 1964 to '68. then kenneth carlson, a combat veteran who grew up in a military family and later taught at a military academy. and later, henry "hank" thomas, a combat medic, civil rights activist and one of the

i knew i was going vietnam. i was a platoon leader for a while and then they picked me to be the commander's aide, the brigade commander's aide, which i did. and i did it for two different commanders. samuel baldwin who ended up at being at fire base marianne and samuel goodwin, who retired as a brigadier out of the berlin brigade. but there someone aide story i need 20 tell you which is -- it's one of my favorites. i'm four days into being an aide and general baldwin calls me in the office and says ken, we need to good to veal flicken. we got troops who are down there training in the zone in west germany, we need to go to veal flicken. so set up the arrangements. sir, when do you want gob? a day and a half from now. so i come out. i've got a sergeant who's a stenographer and a sergeant who is a driver who speaks fluent german. i said how do i get airplane reservations from pan am to get the general and i from here to frankfurt and then from frankfurt back to -- how do i get to vealflicken. and somebody give me

as far north as you can go in vietnam before you are in north vietnam. we are sending you to -- and that's what i did. >> wow. and so what was it like once you arrived at your unit? >>> first let me tell you when we landed. we had to stop a couple of different places. when i got to -- they never stopped the airplane because the marine airport there was under showing. so the c130 on the run way and they kicked us out and they handed us helmets and we ran for cover. welcome to the new unit. 159 artillery. >> running off of the c130 as it is still moving? >> yes and they handed us helmets and we ran and got our bags later on. >> that's an incredible welcome. >> i had been -- as far north when i was a kid. i never knew what it was. and they said it is the last airport in vietnam. if you pass there you are in north vietnam and you are screwed. >> holy cow. >> so i went and the repayment attachment again and issued us a uniform. get your patches sewed on by the local vietnamese and they gave us a 16-rifle. >> what did you train on as a cadet. >> m-14. >> so th

from there i went to vietnam. reporter: what did you do for the two months that you were in the dominican republic? patrols or just security? richard: i guess it was all just security. it was all in town. reporter: did you draw any lessons from your time in the dominican republic that helped you in vietnam? just what incoming rifle fire sounds like. that's something good to know. reporter: sure. so when you hear it again and it is more powerful, you are not as surprised. richard: right. reporter: so your first time in vietnam was from 1965 to 1967. who did you serve with? richard: the first year i was with the vietnamese airborne and we were eighth battalion based in saigon and we traveled all over the country except the fourth core. never met the fourth core. the eighth vietnamese battalion was the finest troops i've ever served with. they really were. in fact, on one particular operation, they got the american presidential unit citation. reporter: wow. what made them the finest troops you ever served with? richa

vietnam war. this interview is from the west point center of oral history and is a little over an hour. >> today is the first day of october 2016 and we are in the west point center for all history and i'm here with catherine stevens -- can you please spell your last name? tell me about your childhood. i knew you grew up as the daughter of an army officer. as an like growing up army brat. >> i grew as a millionaire child without any money. wonderful -- had the most wonderful childhood. brothers and my father had been in the cavalry. he was a wonderful horseman. both my older brother and i rode from the time that i was three years old, and my older brother was the same way. i was born in princeton. for six years and when he married my mother, my mother was so bear -- was a very beautiful lady. my older brother was born there. >> where else did you grow up? bragg. washington. oklahoma. hawaii, back to oklahoma. if the cut new york. i got free tuition. >> one of the questions i always asked people wh

there were 11 nations, andre the official from north vietnam. our secretary of state who signed for the president. and when anyone signs for the president, that is it. that is the united states speaking. period. that is the u.s. talking. and we won that war on january 27, 1973. and we knew it and you will notice that there was no celebration in any way except the white house and the department of defense -- at the white house, we called it a victory in vietnam day. just like we have the j.d. but congress was not happy. the had made semi-occupation of talking against president nixon having a hand in vietnam. so many people were opposed to president nixon that they opposed the peace plan that was as good as gold as a surrender document of the vietnamese -- of the north vietnamese. , we did not use the term fake news then but "un -news." they called it the christmas bombing even though they know we did not bomb on christmas. to this day, if you get a book that was written about vietnam probably in the index if you look under c, you will see the chr

military forces in vietnam talks about her life. she recounts living in vietnam and serving as a red cross nurses aide during the war. recounts meeting presidents and first ladies, as well as her friendship with bob and divorce help. this interview is a little over an hour. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] we are in the west point center for oral history. i am here with catherine west katharine-- westmoreland. tell me about your childhood. like growingit was up as an army brat. katharaine: -- i grew up as a millionaire's child without any money. i have the most wonderful childhood. i had to bang brothers. had two brothers. i rode. interviewer: will you stationed stationed?re you katherine: princeton. six years. --t of the principal been princeton students were in love with my mother because she was so lovely. my older brother was born there and i was born there. interviewer: where else did you grow up? atherine: fort bragg, fort washington, oklahoma, hawaii, back to oklahoma. and cornell. i got free tuition.

the bureau in north vietnam decided to launch a general uprising everywhere in south vietnam. on the 31st of january, 1968. in south vietnam. on the 31st of january, 1968. it was the lunar holiday of tet, normally a time of truce. the vietcong entered the city with ease and encountered no major resistance. local residents were also caught by surprise. it was because our plan was carried out in absolute secrecy. the counter—attack by the americans and allies was so fierce, it was probably the toughest one in the vietnam war. in all other places, including saigon, the dr congo tax filled quickly, within a few days. —— viet cong attacks failed. but thanks to local support, this one lasted 20 days. during the tet offensive, i felt the kiss of death five times. a mortar was fired towards our position one time, and it burned my hair as it went past me. any closer, i would have been there. —— dead. we were exposed by being in the city. we were not able to resist american firepower. when we drew back into the jungle, we had suffered great losses the cost and civilian sufferi

where were you deployed in vietnam? in the highlands. november of that year was the year that the first large american unit had contact with the north vietnamese unit. it and awritten about movie was made. i was at the tail end of that battle. by this time in the army i was a senior medic, and i have four other medics serving under me. three of them were killed. two of them were killed on the same day in that particular battle. , whenas one of those days i heard about them being killed, the two that were killed were both 18-year-old white boys. i emphasized the fact that they were white, because for the first time in my life, they had a chance to interact on an equal level. these young white boys, they looked at me as being their protector. i do not know why. maybe because of my age or anything. i never had any problems with them. so when i found out that they had been killed in that particular battle, that was a pretty difficult day for me. did you feel about the war in particular? i understand that the idea of service, you had hoped th

i knew i was going vietnam. i was a platoon leader for a while and then they picked me to be the brigade commander's aid, which i did dand it for two different commander. samuel baldwin and samuel good w -- goodwin who retired. but there's one story i need to tell which you is one my favorites. i'm four days into being an aide and general baldwin calls me in the office and says ken, we need to good to veal flicken. we got troops who are down there training in the zone in west germany, we need to go to veal flicken. so set up the arrangements. sir, when do you want gob? a day and a half from now. so i goum u come out. i've got a sergeant who's a stenographer and a sergeant who speaks fluent german, how i do get to the veal fleng and somebody give me a vehicle. spec 6 said lieutenant, relax, you got your own plane. i said, i do? he said no, not you lieutenant, the general has his own plane. i said what am i supposed to do? all you're supposed to does make sure you got a 45 that's loaded, make sure you have a handc

and then deployed straight to vietnam. >> and who did you go to vietnam with? >> myself. i was an individual replacement. just after the siege of caisson and the marines it was just after the siege of kayson and the marines needed a lot of help so they brought the first brigade of the fifth mec over from carson to give them more armor support. because they realized when the marines were surrounded that could have gone either way. when that brigade came over they had a calvary with it. but that's not where i was supposed to do go. i had a set of orders worked with general goodwin worked with patton there are is his son of course, he offered me a calvary troop at the request of general goodwin who said this guy's good and you ought to take him. i had a set of orders from da and i got to the 90th replacement battalion and everybody's rushing around go to these classes and so on and i'm just looking for a jeep. i want to get out of this replacement battalion as soon as possible. and someone comes up and he says where are you going. >> he i said i have orders for the 11th cr h

. >> in november, we opened the exhibit remembering vietnam. by opening in 2017 and continuing through 2018, we mark the 50th anniversary of america's war in vietnam. in 1960 seven, hundreds of thousands of troops were on the ground in vietnam, while at home voices became more vocal. there was a large cohort of the baby boomer generation that the culture during the summer of love. to learn about these events, we now turn to to today's guest, book 1967,ks and his the year of fire and ice. mr. brooks is an internationally recognized author with 14 books on history. 's passion for these areas of research and dates back to his childhood when the brooks family visited gettysburg in europe. in addition, dr. brooks is a professor and received an undergraduate degree in history from lasalle university and earned his master's and doctors of education degree from the university of pennsylvania. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome victor brooks. [applause] victor: thank you so much for coming today. i am very honored that all of you could take from your

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