My dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifthgrade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. They worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that Better Future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. They talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, researcher Peter Kornbluh discusses president kennedys attempts to open up negotiations with cuba. He discusses the issues involved with establishing reliable dialogue in negotiations. He is coauthor of back channel to cuba. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you. Im here to introduce Peter Kornbluh, whom i have just met. I have just gotten a copy of his new book, co
What is new about the story we have broken in this book is that kissinger went into president fords oval office and said, we have to smash the cubans. Im in favor of humiliating them, that tips greek fidel castro, who does he think he has . We will speak with Peter Kornbluh and William Leogrande, authors of a new book and what it means between u. S. And cuba relations today. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State militants have reportedly made advances in both iraq and syria despite the escalating usled bombing. In iraq, militan are said to have seized control of the town of heet and bar province. Turkish, advanced on temps forcing tens of thousands to flee in recent days. United nations meanwhile says over 1100 iraqis were killed in violence last month. The actual toll is far higher because it does not include deaths in areas controlled by the Islamic State. The u. N. Says from the Islamic
Home country. Then we look at Henry Kissingers shocking plan to attack cuba in the mid1970s. What is new about the story we have broken in this book is that kissinger went into president fords oval office and said, we have to smash the cubans. Im in favor of humiliating them, that tips greek fidel castro, who does he think he has . We will speak with Peter Kornbluh and William Leogrande, authors of a new book and what it means between u. S. And cuba relations today. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State militants have reportedly made advances in both iraq and syria despite the escalating usled bombing. In iraq, militants are said to have seized control of the town of heet and bar province. Turkish, advanced on temps forcing tens of thousands to flee in recent days. United nations meanwhile says over 1100 iraqis were killed in violence last month. The actual toll is far higher because it doe
The next program is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] i know you are plotting the guy who brought the crowd signout, right . [applause] thank you very much. Welcome. What a lively audience. I wish that i could stay longer, but i am bill miller, and i direct the fall for the book festival program. Also the graduate writing program here at george mason. [applause] thank you. [applause] i was going to say that you have arrived at fall for the book festival whether you intended to or not. We started the festival on wednesday. We are having a great time. We do not end until sunday. There are programs in the lobby and we would love it if you would pick one up if you are interested. In this room, we have authors on the floor. Following me to the bone will be the mayor of fairfax city. Mayor silverthorne, who introduced tonights guests. We will keep everything to a minimum and shift to the formality. He is going to be, key questions from the cards that some of you fill out, and answer those.
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