Make your parents happy and avoid combat. That wasnt it. I wanted to do something positive, i joined the peace corps that summer. Host okay, all right. Well, why this book now . Guest well, i started working on it, i did jack kennedy a couple of years ago, and before that kennedy and nixon. I knew the story, and what i came to believe was how powerful bobby was. He was the leader on civil rights. He was the one that talked jack into the civil rights push in june of 63. He was the one who really got him through the cuban missile crisis, who advised bringing the turkish missiles in as a negotiation and answering the first letter from khrushchev. He also was the one that went to the excom group, the top advisers to the president , and said we cant be like the japanese, we dont believe in sneak attacks. Were not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. Were not that kind of country. So hes a moral compass. Thats the reason. And righ
And doesnt look great for the environment. We have a president elect who says that Climate Change is across from china. Do you have any encouragement i dont think we can talk to this mean about anything. I dont know how you feel about that. Im not the only one. We see that his appointed people in big oil fracking, quail we have made big progress in the past few years i imagine that some of that will continue but we have somebody who is really appointed everybody who doesnt believe in that. I just want encouragement sykes stop crying. I have a few days of crying. Its a very good question. We can all cry in our beer forever or we can pick up and do something and find ways to work with it. I had been working with the Environmental Organization for 50 years now. Weve always been working on our own for a long time. Working to continue. And i have to say its all about finding best practices in sustainability together. The market will take care of the whole business with oil in drilling. It w
Much for being here and i hope you have taken advantage of all of the perks available to you and those who are not book fair members as yet i know you are considering becoming members so thank you very much. Acknowledges miamidade college, the convener of this outstanding book fair and many thanks to our students, faculty and staff are giving up their time to make sure this book fair is the caliber that it is today and has been for the past three decades so thank you to miamidade college. [applause] lets get right on with the show. I would like to bring on Mister Eldridge Birmingham for questions, he is the chief science officer, thank you. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is a great pleasure. I have lived in miami several years, this is my second presentation. The first was with Richard Dawkins and im equally fortunate to introduce james glieck who is one of the great science or historians of science ever. I thought what i would do was read a brief statement, some of you know c
[silence] good afternoon again. Come on in, please have a seat. We are ready to begin. As you see, we have been on time all day long and i know that you appreciate that, thank you. Welcome to this next session. I am Mary Lou Harrison and it is truly a pleasure to have you here at miami book fair. We have many, many sponsors as you heard throughout the morning, but we want to really acknowledge them because without them this affair would not take place. Many thanks to the foundation, to the bachelor foundation, the the grout foundation and all the other sponsors. I also want to recognize again and again and again the friends of miami book fair, thank you so much for being here and i hope you have taken advantage of all of the perks available to you and those who are not book fair members as yet i know you are considering becoming members so thank you very much. Acknowledges miamidade college, the convener of this outstanding book fair and many thanks to our students, faculty and staff a