Marty baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, when did you first get interested in the News Business . I was in Junior High School and very interested in what was happening in the world. My parents were immigrants and they were interested in this country and what was happening and what was happening around the world. I think through their reading of newspapers and watching Television News and local news and national lose, i got interested in it myself. I know you grew up in tampa, where did your parents come from and why did they come to the United States. They came from israel and they came to United States, my father believed in the american dream. They had a made a stop in stop in paris and in 1954 they came to the United States and my father started working in the Service Industry in florida. When did you start to understand what journalism was supposed to be . I think in high school i had an idea of what was happening and i was pretty sure i wanted to make it my career at
[inaudible conversation] [applause] hello, everyone. , a at least for in our. This is the story of two decades of reporting in the middle east garden with cairo where he went after he graduated college with two suitcases and 2,000 a they reject comedienne to become a Foreign Correspondent. We learn about his education , freelancing for radio while reporting for a Major News Network that in one case led to his kidnapping in syria. This book is much more is a Current Situation of the middle east as he said this morning i have never seen it worse this is his personal account a lucid alarming over real and where it is headed before i ask you to help me welcome richard not surprisingly he has the plane to catch at the end of the event so we will cut q a just a little short to move everybody through to get their books signed. [applause] personal and is now split pleasure to be here cannot remember have seen so many people in the bookstore. [laughter] that is encouraging on so many different
Between the different news organizations in different places people do that together and its a great question about solidarity. When you are out there in a way normally a tip disappears. Why are we not paying attention to whats going on and he said theres so much of the conflict and it really kind of does and one of the reasons i was looking forward to that i think collectively the experiences are amazing. But for those of us are trying, there are so many different players and conflicts and the external players and saudi arabia it all seems pretty hopeless. So im curious you said at the highs are the highs and the lows are the bows. What is your sense of this . It is incredibly complicated. I literally studied for 25 yea years. They try to put things on the maps to identify whos fighting who and theres a thousand on the opposition right now. Russia and qatar and the saudi and iran and egypt. They do and. They arent going to go into a 17 year war it will eventually come to a head. We do
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Officials who give their papers to the library of congress, with restrictions that keep them from the public for as long as the family wants, and it was the library and of congress that made the arrangement with Caspar Weinbergers family or maybe with him personally, that they and the suntricted would determine caspar who would be able to view them. I was surprised but i have learned through my friend, that it is a usual thing. That maybe you would put personal papers and a situation like that, what not papers related to your position as secretary of defense or secretary of state. Brian lamb what difference does that make to you in this book . Sally denton i think it would have created a treasure trove of documents for me relating to his role as secretary of defense, and i was looking specifically for his relationship, and the sentencing memoranda for the Jonathan Pollard case. Brian lamb how does that relate to your book . Sally denton Jonathan Pollard has been spying for israel, as h