the city of washington. net emissary s name was frances blair and he has an extraordinary offer, he said will you lead and the union army to crush secession? remember the story, blair tried in every way to convince robert e. lee to say yes. he said the country looks to you, quote, as a representative of the washington family to save the union george washington forged and that is not an exaggeration because the son of george washington son in lot of george washington s adopted child. so now only one word separated robert e. lee from the pinnacle of his profession, from command of what would be the largest american army ever raised, from glory perhaps that no american since george washington had known. what did robert e. lee say? he said he opposed secession and he did oppose secession, he thought secession was illegal. equally significantly he thought george washington was opposed to secession and that was no given at the time. people on both sides of the conflict claimed ge
recommended visit kohl.house.gov. below to prize-winning photojournalist lynsey addario discusses iraq, pakistan, afghanistan and libya. she spoke at politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. thanks for coming out tonight. and deputy director of the events at politics and prose. before we begin a couple procedural notes. if you would be so kind as to turn off your cellphones we would be very appreciative. please go to the microphone which is right there and speaking to it during the q&a. that is where we are recording the program and make sure the questions are recorded. and if you would kindly fold up your chair after the program we would appreciate it. a great thrill for me to introduce a personal hero of mine lynsey addario for her new memoir to it s what i do: a photographer s life of love and war . she is one of the most respected photographers working today, her fearless worked in the national geographic and publications has borne witness to the struggle of mo
said you are not going to meet the taliban. i didn t answer. dexter went. i learned not to answer. dexter went to pakistan and spent months trying to line up access and the thing about south asia and had to and culture it is tribal culture, when they invite you to meet then they will protect you with your life. so we knew if dexter was able to line this up and they invited us and we would be relatively safe. the one thing we had to worry about was in order to reach the commander he was negotiating with we had to cross through two other commanders s territory. we got the permission and the night before we were supposed to leave we got a phone call from the commander s guys and they said you are welcome to come tomorrow but the one thing you cannot do is bring a woman. dexter and i looked at each other and said we are not separating there s no way so our translator who had close ties to the taliban said what are we going to do? they said don t bring a woman and we said you have
what is private banking it is the minister will take your money and put it same place safe. that is a little footprint of thinking is and we will help to hide resource flows. so, why do small caribbean islands host trillions of dollars of deposits because of their great banking sectors? no. why do some of the largest multinational companies collect their profits in bermuda? they did it in stanford so why are the tactics with the international profits going to bermuda? because it gave them a free pass. this is what has to stop. how can we give way to powerful interest? i am going to conclude by reading you two sentences from the book. i have explained the historical geographical burdens are not favorite destiny they are the reasons of action and it s our job to understand how the end of poverty can be achieved and then act to make it happen. [applause] just outside at the same time a person was standing on the i-95. he was a cop and was arresting anyone she could find that
would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. no one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. when it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. the rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. host: tell us about ricardo. guest: you have to write this book because nobody knows him. if that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the cuban foreign minister, cute and united nations representative in new york at the cuban head of natural assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. he has been a public human figure, he knows more