General Alexander Haig, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Special Counsel to President Kennedy Theodore C. Sorensen, and Special Assistant to President Johnson Jack Valenti - who directed US efforts in Vietnam - discussed both the decisions they made in office and their impressions about how that history is now told. Brian Williams moderated.
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