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good morning. you can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 miami book fair here in miami, florida. what a beautiful day it is here in miami this morning. that is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. welcome again to miami book fair. we have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. i hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. this fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. namely the students, faculty, staff of miami-dade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high school students, middle school students and others in the community. we truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this miami book fair. i al ....
live on every channel. trying to figure out what s going on so it was live and entire room thousands turn at once and start booing at me screaming in person saying the things they were saying online but saying them to my face, and it was nerve wrecking, my phone again starts going off like crazy. not just people on twirts but my colleagues and my bosses and my mom saying what in the world is happening? because she s watching it on television are you safe are you okay she s concerned. but i put my put my phone off i put it down over here because i have a job to do he s making a major announcement. how do you keep doing that job when that kind of attention i ve learned at this point because he s gone of a me so many times i learned at this point in order to defuse the situation is smile and you wave. so i did that i smited and i waved at this angry crowd and they got bore ed and turned around. how were you personally angry at donald trump? himself or ....
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 ....
president, kay here was not a political reporter when afl this began. so could you tell the nice people it shall [laughter] what it was that you were doing judgment whether they re nice until after they buy the book. [laughter] buy the book so i was a foreign correspondent an living in london, and i jus came back to new york for a couple of days. to remind my bosses that i exist because they have a tend stoi forget who you when you re overseas unless there s major news happening and it was a slow period, and i showed up in the newsroom and i m standing around with one of my colleagues, and donald trump was making headlines. e he had just announced that he was running for president. and in doing so said mexico was sending rapist into the country. so macy s dropped the donald trump brand from its stores. univision said we re not going to air your pageant any long asker and nbc qoangt either, and this was a ballooning story that needed to be covered. and they nee ....