Blockade with impunity. So negroponte [inaudible] thousand were friends with vietnam now were friends with vietnam, but theres no question that the development of the country is well behind those of the other Southeast Asian countries as a result of 20 years of communism. Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for coming. We have copies of the last american diplomat for sale at the table, and mr. Liebmann had been happy to sign your book up at the table here. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend. 48 hours of people and event bs that help document the american story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. Book tv is on location in new york city at the publishers annual trade show called bookexpo america, and one of the things we like to do is talk to the publishers about some of the books they have coming out in the fall. Cynthia sherry is the publisher of a group called Chicago Review
Investments we need to make to train our future work force and to create an environment in which we can care for the elderly. The think americans will remain optimistic but this did of the economy . If we have not tackle the things we have just talked about like the cost of education, the Housing Market . We are figuring out some philosophical issues about taxing and funding . I think the economy has been growing slowly and steadily all in the absence of any movement, which we have seen over the test of the last year. I have worked on guantanamo for the past 10 years. My sense is that if there is some movement until the positive direction, which have not seen out of washington and enter a long time, in a long time, at least we will not see head winds. We are making some progress. I see that continue. I want to come back to what todd said earlier. I am concerned about confidence being fragile. Todd reference what happened until august of 2011. We saw in limited to lie confidence tank. M
I learned to expect the unexpected. Nobody expected the socalled arab spring until it was upon us and we had to learn to be agile and ready for the unexpected while we tried to go build the world that we want the, especially for our children and future grandchild, but we have got to be aware of the fact that all these other countries to all these billions of people, they are making hard choices every single play. We have to be ready for that. I am absolutely convinced that we have to continue to lead the world into the kind of future that we want. We cant sit on the sidelines. Weekend retreat. Were going to have setbacks, disappointments. But over time and manpower story has become the dominant story. It represents the hopes and aspirations of people everywhere that is what i want americans to understand. The main reason why i wrote this book, another is a big debate going on about our role in the world and it is unfortunate the consequences from prior decisions and the like, but we ca
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