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make your parents happy and avoid combat. that wasn t 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 ex-com group, the top advisers to the president, and said we can t be like the japanese, we don t believe in sneak attacks. we re not going to kill a whole bunch of cubans in some sort of big raid on cuba and kill a lot of russians. we re not that kind of country. so he s a moral compass ....
to building community is unequal, nobody else, no energy put into something like this, takes a lot of work year round, take the thousand volunteers but something this community appreciates and something we are proud of. host: where is your book? somewhere around here. i keep losing them and carrying them and putting them somewhere else but i lose it and being able to witness for a long time, there is nothing more gratifying to be able to shake the hand of people that become your idols, you keep their books up close to you, because of what they have to say. for me it is difficult to concentrate on my everyday work. i want to meet every one of them and thank them, they make america what america is about. it is a celebration of the writers. you can find finance gathering, writers, everything literary and international. when we started, book fairs in the united states and we have been credited by the forerunners of book fairs, a dedication from almost every state to com ....
american studies from columbia university. got some miami roots. he deters a correspondent for nbc news and anchor for msnbc. recipient of the 2017 walter cronkite award for excellence in journalism. she was called disgraceful and not nice by then candidate donald trump. [applause] she reported non-and took flak from the most tax evading their volatile presidential candidate in american history including here in miamior had a memorable news conference then you read her book and later at a rally six days before the election last year where he called her up i named and some of the crowd turned against her. her book, unbelievable unbelievable mr. darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre and often scary story of how america sent a former reality show host to the white house. it tells the story of what it was like to be there as it happened inside a no rules world where we workers were spat on, demeaned and discredited. please welcome tony dokoupil and katy tur. [applause] ....