Did anyone see the MSNBC special on Kerry and protesting Vietnam

[LittleClarkie]

It was actually quite good.

And it showed Kerry in so many good ways. They had him talking now about what happened then. The interviewer must have been someone he knew, because he was quite warm and relaxed in the way he was speaking.

They showed Kennedy talking about how Vietnam was the wrong war, the wrong time, wrong policy. Gee, I wonder why he chose to put it THAT way. Hee hee!

It showed Kerry giving both his testimony (and showing quite a bit of it, in fact) and his debate with O'Neill (they showed interviews with the Whopper as well).

They showed him working his way through his own experience by helping to naturalize our relations with Vietnam, and in a meeting with Nixon. This must be the meeting Bob Kerrey talked about in which Kerry forgave Nixon for the past. Kerry came away saying how intelligent Nixon was and how knowledgeable on foreign affairs. They showed the two of them shaking hands and both smiling quite genuinely. (I must say that was surreal.)

All in all, I thought it was a good special that showed Kerry in a generally good light. It might just have touched people who can see the parallels to our own situation. I hope so.

[Placebo]

1. Yea, it was good.

Pretty fair and unbiased too.

[DoBotherMe]

2. Is there an on-line version?

I've read many wonderful reviews here of the special, but I am not hooked up to cable or satellite. I tried to search the MSNBC site and got a lot of scarboro/swiftnuts stuff. D ; )

[jeff_thompson]

3. It was excellent

Even if Kerry weren't running for president, it showed him to be a very courageous man. Went head to head with Nixon and won. It made me proud of him.

[newyawker99]

6. Hi Jeff_thompson!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[pacalo]

4. I saw it several weeks ago & I loved it.

Also, Charles Colson apologized to Kerry for "any harm he may have caused Kerry." The 27-year-old Kerry was a hot topic in the Nixon WH. Kerry impressed the heck out of Nixon, who described Kerry as intelligent & articulate. Due to Nixon's concern (or paranoia) about Kerry's effectiveness, Colson found & recruited John O'Neill to serve as Nixon's counterattack against Kerry.

MSNBC included taped conversations between Nixon, Kissinger, Haldemann, & Colson about Kerry. Haldemann & Colson both were heard to say Kerry had to be destroyed, credibility-wise.

It was after Colson had served time in prison, becoming a born-again Christian, that he was compelled to apologize to Kerry.

The apologies of both Nixon & Colson (Nixon's henchman) speak volumes, and perhaps in a perfect world with a perfect Fourth Estate, the apologies would serve to discredit John O'Neill.

[cheshire]

5. Did you know that Nixon felt that Kerry was intellegent and was worried

about his strong force enough to have him watched. But he was also impressed with him.

[AnnInLa]

7. YES! It was VERY good.....I emailed MSNBC

to ask that it be shown again at a time when more people could see it. Kerry must feel that this is "deja vu all over again" with the similarities in Nam and Iraq. It really put his Nam protest in perspective and demonstrated what an idiot O'Niell was/is.

[TexasLady]

8. I saw it too..

and concur that is was very well done, very unbiased.

[LittleClarkie]

9. I was very impressed with Kerry the bridge-builder

By all rights McCain should want nothing to do with him as a POW. But they're friends.

He went and shook Nixon's hand, and made his peace before the man died.

He built the diplomatic bridges necessary to bring us and Vietnam together.

Kerry turns enemies into friends. I wonder if there is a campaign slogan in there somewhere.