World Affairs Council
of Orange County
presents
Bruce Herschensohn
Political Commentator, Senior Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and former Deputy Special Assistant to Richard Nixon
“An American Amnesia - How the 94th Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia – Lessons for our Policy in the Middle East Today”
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Location: The Pacific Club
Bruce Herschensohn’s new book American Amnesia, presents his thesis that had Congress been prepared to support Presidents Nixon and Ford when they asked for military aid to South Vietnam after North Vietnamese violations of the 1973 peace accords, then Hanoi’s forces would not have been able to defeat that nation in 1975. The theme of his book has particular relevance as American forces prepare to depart from Iraq, a nation whose future may be determined by the whims of its eastern neighbor Iran unless the United States is ready to ensure otherwise.
Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the more than two decades. After service in the United States Air Force, he began his own motion picture company and was appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information Agency. He received the second highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became deputy special assistant to President Nixon. He was also appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team. Mr. Herschensohn was the 1992 Republican nominee for the United States Senate in California and was defeated while winning over one million votes more than the national ticket of the Party. He was a fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University and a distinguished fellow of the Claremont Institute from 1993 to 2001. He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, and is a non-resident associate fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Individual Freedom.
Bruce Herschensohn’s books include "The Gods of Antenna" "Lost Trumpets" "Hawks Without Wings, Doves Without Conscience" "The Last Time I Saw Hong Kong” “Hong Kong at the Handover" “Across the Taiwan Strait” “Passport: An Historical Novel of the Cold War” “Millennium’s Edge” “Tai-wan: The Threatened Democracy” “Above Empyrean” and “An American Amnesia”
Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010
Location: The Pacific Club
4110 MacArthur Boulevard
Newport Beach, California 92660
Parking: Self parking is complimentary
6:00 pm Reception * 7:00 pm Dinner * 7:45 pm Program
Members @ $55 Non-Members @ $70 Students @ $40
