Like to be on the white house staff. Got to watch twitter to see what people are going to do. You were in, you were around when the Colin Kaepernick protests were going on when he was playing for the 49ers. What did you think then about that . I fully supported his right to speak out. I thought he made some mistakes, some big mistakes early. He wore the socks. Remember the socks that were pigs in policemen ewan forps. He didnt have a clear message at first. But i supported his right to protest and i think what he did was really admirable. He went out and sought the advice of a man named nate boyer, a former player with a seahawks. A military veteran, who gave kaepernick the advice to kneel. He said in stead of sitting on the bench, kneel. Its also a sign of respect. If you think about you bow in front of somebody. And so this was the advice kaepernick sought out. He sort of refined his message, saying i thought things had made
more sense in terms of clarifying what he was protesting. I
reconciliation for understanding. he was a positive image for the u.s. that s right. and he became the most prominent american in beirut at the time because you mentioned the embassy bombing. marine bar ricks that were bombs. 300 marines were killed. awful. the military lapse. the embassy basically after it was bombed, i don t remember if it was closed, but it was obviously basically shut down for the most part. the american university campus became sort of the next most obvious place where you were going to find americans and he was the president. then you got a call. your dorm room. 3:00 in the morning. my dorm room and a man named bahin, good armenian name, he worked at the university, great family friend. he called me to give me the news