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Look at you, you have a good luck. I said ok, that was prequel, right pretty cool. [laughter] said, joni, billy, bobby, i said, i know those guys, he said, they any good . Said yes. He said you think you are better than them . I said yes. He said, you want to run my campaign for president . I said, he is not running for president. He said to me, what do you think the odds of me running the odds of me running and winning . I said 5 . He said 10 . I met him in the middle, he said done. That is how we started. He shook my hand and stood up and said, youre hired. I had a job, i had to have a conversation with my wife. He said get out. I said i have a job. He said you work for me now. I left his office and called my wife and said, i think it just took a new job in new york. How much management was this or was it more containment . He seems like the type of person where you do not put a plan together and say this is what you are going to say. What you go out and release things out at his ral
University in connecticut to read it is about an hour and 20 minutes. Soon we will be meeting two distant wished journalists the New York Times, ms. Alessandra stanley and mr. Frank bruni. We understand the very long ripple effects and reverberations of the New York Times, which extends so deeply into our nations history, 1851. It is red on five continents, as we say all the news that is fit to print, in the Digital World all the news that is fit to click. To be honest, Rush Limbaugh explains, i can only read a few paragraphs in a New York Times story before i puke. Well, last summer i was watching a rerun of a charlie rose special and the editor of the new yorker was speaking about the media in america, and remnick talked about his career. He had spent 10 years at the washington post. For the past 22 years he has been the editor of the new yorker. He said, New York Times has been the greatest competitor of my entire professional career. He said to charlie rose, i think New York Times
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 secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched