Friday, 8 October 2004

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM
Plenary address: The Place of the Vietnam War in the Cold War
Speaker: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Panel 1: Vietnam, 1963-1968--Getting into “That Bitch of a War”
Chair: Barry F. Machado, Washington & Lee University
Panel member: Henry G. Gole, U.S. Army Special Forces (Ret)
Panel member: Alexander S. Cochran, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Panel member: Edward J. Marolda, Naval Historical Center

11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Panel 2: Vietnam, 1968-1975--Getting out of “That Bitch of a War”
Chair: Paul L. Miles, Jr., Princeton University
Panel member: David Maraniss, Washington Post
Panel member: Mark Clodfelter, National War College
Panel member: Nguyen Xuan Phong, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University

1:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Panel 3: The Cold War: Preserving the Record
Chair: Larry I. Bland, George C. Marshall Foundation
Panel member: James R. Reckner, Vietnam Center, Texas Tech University
Panel member: Christian Ostermann, Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center
Panel member: Francis Gary Powers, Jr., The Cold War Museum
Panel member: Gordon E. Hogg, Scott Collection, University of Kentucky Libraries

3:10 PM - 4:25 PM
Panel 4: The Asian Rim: Persistent Storms
Chair: Mark F. Wilkinson, Virginia Military Institute
Panel member: David W. Lesch, Trinity University
Panel member: Robert O. Freedman, Baltimore Hebrew University
Panel member: Robert J. McMahon, University of Florida
Panel member: Mitchell B. Lerner, Ohio State University--Newark

Saturday, 9 October 2004

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM
Plenary address: Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: The Making of a World View
Speaker: Charles F. Brower, IV, Virginia Military Institute

9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Panel 5: The Superpowers
Chair: John F. Votaw, McCormick Tribune Foundation
Panel member: Richard C. Thornton, George Washington University
Panel member: Timothy J. Naftali, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
Panel member: David M. Glantz, (’63), The Journal of Slavic Military Studies
Panel member: Priscilla Roberts, University of Hong Kong

11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Panel 6: To Read a Gentleman’s Mail: Intelligence Successes and Failures
Chair: James J. Hentz, Virginia Military Institute
Panel member: John F. Sullivan, Central Intelligence Agency
Panel member: Brian G. Shellum, Defense Intelligence Agency
Panel member: Blair P. Turner, Virginia Military Institute

2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Panel 7: The U.S. Military, 1963-1975: A Turbulent Decade
Chair: Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute
Panel member: US Air Force: Kenneth P. Werrell, Radford University
Panel member: US Army: Paul Gorman, USA (Ret)
Panel member: US Navy: James Bradford, Texas A & M University

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Speakers’ Panel: Thoughts on the Conference
Chair: Timothy S. McElhannon, Virginia Military Institute
Panel member: Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University
Panel member: Charles F. Brower, IV, Virginia Military Institute