to the countries like venezuela individual autonomy. >> have you ever imagined interviewing richard nixon? were to create a committee to improve the united states and if >> uh-oh, yeah. i could never outfox that guy. the first chapter of that huge report the venezuelans produce, he was a chess master. this was for injured 23 pages, he was a poker master. if the first chapter was called he thought for five steps ahead of everyone else and of course the movie frost/nixon which came hastening cuba's transition it out this past year which was quite excellent, which basically was a rare moment when seen to was 42 pages with 62 steps the let down his guard, and seems to united states is taking to overthrow the government of cuba have been tested by this petty, now. we can talk about what he would sort of lowbrow television host. say if venezuela did this to us i mean, it is straight out of but the interesting question is loud super guo the best way to why did we concoct this 400 page defeat an enemy is to mr. tim report? but making emboly that you are not as strong as you really are. look at the size of this. i don't know, i think david why is it the selection of frost was the better man on that one. >> rec perlstein, author of nixonland. >> thank you. cubans leaders is the first and

most important of the six .. chapters? the hastening cuba's transition from its current government to a new government. why not? that is what we have been doing at least since 1901 when the general in charge of cuba durham the period after spanish but before independent the governor general wrote to president roosevelt from havana seeking no one wants more than on a good and stable government here, but we must see that the right class is an office. or ask barack obama said on the campaign trail last may we've got to keep the embargo because the right people are not running cuba. the point in 1901 is the same point being made by president obama and in a much more aggressively by president bush's and that's what the book is commission for a free cuba.

about. what it attempts to explain is the place if you leave them to what everyone agrees is a their own devices, they will dysfunctional policy. make poor choices. but first, as wolf pulitzer cents on the situation room we now, to the modern ear that have some breaking news, i want sounds presumptions, right? to talk a bill bit about what president obama did yesterday. you are to inferior, you don't he announced a relaxation of the know how to choose the right kind of leaders. u.s. embargo on cuba. leonard wood back in 1901 came this began in october, 1960. and said that president roosevelt. it was instituted by president that sounds so presumption's today we label this chapter the eisenhower just a few days before the election between richard nixon and john kennedy. 42 page chapter. we label it hastening cuba's candidate nixon asked the transition which is a euphemism president to do something to for getting rid of their current show some swine toward cuba and the embargo is this that that government and is installing a space government. was taken. que let me conclude. president obama yesterday what can we safely to collect relaxed the embargo.

the announcement was a product of several factors. these countries down there and the caribbean and when we can't one of them as he promised to do so on the campaign trail. neglect them, second, we should uplift them, we have the in may of 2008 when he was still trying to get the democratic obligation to lift them up, and nomination he went down to miami third, the reason we have an and spoke to a group of obligation is because they are a cuban-americans and he said i retarded branch of the human will relax the embargo to allow species. what are these three believes more family visits and tell about the years that lie ahead? unrestricted remittances to families in cuba. it says the best wager would be that eventually some cubans and clearly mr. obama is as you probably the next generation know a very bright man but has will become convinced by them spent no time studying cuba so he was told to do this. not pinging by the embargo and accept a little uplifting. this isn't a while you are on the plane, mr. obama, read to they will agree to do it our this -- read this. this is what you are going to way. say to the cuban-americans when so after we've got the right you land. class in office that allegedly and what is generally the case which hasn't been confirmed as is democratic, then you can expect to see an army of mr. obama's supporters refer

contractors from the u.s. agency for international development, about 800,000 cuban-americans they said they want more family visits and to be able to send the national endowment for money to their families and that democracy helping construct a is what he promised to do in may new and improved country. maybe it will work this time. and here shortly after taking office, he fulfilled his promise but at a discouraging moment 107 to the cuban-american community. years ago general leonard wood it is also true the congress wrote back to president roosevelt and said it is next to this seizing the initiative of the embargo. impossible to make them believe i don't know if you saw last we have their own interest at week the black caucus from heart. in this book i look over the conquer is composed of 42 history of the past century and members. six of them went down to cuba and they came back talking like i ask what lesson can be more senator richard lugar, the ranking republican on the senate obvious and more obviously on foreign relations committee, learned then that cubans simply like jeff flake, libertarian do not want to be uplifted by the united states of america? republican from arizona, member will we ever learn this lesson? of the house of representatives. i don't know. they're all talking -- there are the mere existence of this several bills from congress right now to eliminate the document suggests my generation

travel restrictions and a couple doesn't even recognize the others to take steps to weaken problem, that we would do this the embargo. thinking we are helping cuba and then there is the problem that mr. obama has with the rest when clearly all we are doing is stiffening the result of the of the hemisphere. we are the only country that has cuban nationalists. imagine a 1500 foot jon rand an embargo of cuba, and the rest standing next to me we think a of the hemisphere is adamantly 423 page document saying i have it all planned for you. opposed. the lookout office houseful leading a small neighbor and mr. obama fri has to go to the fifth summit of the americas and the cubin generation passing through the scene would have done is turned around and gave in trinidad and he has already the giant the finger. been told by the mexican the and especially the brazilian i don't know whether that will continue. i am not a future always just -- president, lula da silva, he was going to run into some really heavy criticism in trinidad if but the road ahead is going to be pretty bumpy. something can't be done for the those of us starting to get a little gray hair had given it embargo. so they're still a long way to go. our best shot. it could go fast, it could go if my generation hasn't made as slow and in his miami speech much progress as we would like it isn't because we haven't last may candidate obama

tried. it is difficult to get anyone's suggested it was going to go slow. he promised to keep the rest of attention. once you've got their attention the embargo he said because to get them to control their compulsion to uplift because we united states needed to be a relentless advocate of democracy, and of quote. think they are an inferior but slowly or quickly is very branch of the human species. well, look, you are no doubt clear that our current happy to learn that half-hour of dysfunctional policy is coming to the end of its life. unremitting pessimism is up. what do i mean by dysfunctional? maybe one or two of you could i mean that the united states and cuba have not had formal find a real of sunshine, but i certainly apologize for being so relations since january feared, negative and i thank you very 1961. that was e leffinge presidents much for listening to me. do you have any comments? [applause] ago -- 11 presidents ago. in contrast the u.s. estrangement from this movie >> what would it on take to undo gets revolution after the bolshevik revolution and is a strain from the people's republic of china after the fall -- [inaudible]

of chang that lasted 16, 22 dak is a 1996 act passed by years respectively. republican congress and signed the five presidents. by a democratic president that we are on the 11 presidents in the case of cuba. codify defeat embargo. and the united states didn't until '96 the embargo was an decline for relations with cuba executive branch decision. for 40 years and we are still counting. there were presidential proclamations of an embargo and but it's also spent most of the past half century openly and it changed with each actively attempting to overthrow administration. sometimes weaker sometimes the government of cuba. stronger but 1996 the now there is no similar cuban-american community working through an interesting group estrangement and history of u.s. foreign relations. you can go back to the days of called the cuban-american thomas jefferson and george national foundation went to senator jesse helms of north washington and can't find a carolina, representative dan similar estrangement so the burton of indiana and got interesting question or the one i start out with in this book is what we have been trying to congress to come this close to accomplish. passing a bill that codified the at one level the explanation is embargo. we have had anbar goes with easy. we are trying to protect our

various countries like north korea and so forth but it has always been a presidential interests. that is what we always do. many of you take place i150, embargo. the helms burton act would introduction to the foreign codify and president clinton said i will veto it. policy course and we will say it the constitution gives me the chief executive, the president all nations try to protect their the right to conduct foreign policy. interest. the first washington has been trying to protect economic and this codify he of the embargo is an infringement upon interest. the second and much more my executive branch prerogatives important for many decades for and that's where it stood until over three decades by the united states was trying to protect its the castro government shot down two planes of the brothers of security, its interest in having a secure homeland and the more the rescue that fly, they now stopped flying, they used to fly recently we have been trying to in the straits of florida looking for rafters and would address concerns of u.s. radio back to the coast guard and say there is a rafter out politicians seeking the support of to the america. it's not an accident that there and then they also started brought a lot flew down and gave flying over havana leafleting a talk to cuban-americans and only cuban-americans in may of and in 1996 to of the three 2008. several hundred thousand of these cubans vote in the crucial

state of florida. planes in the international we don't know exactly how many waters were shot down by cubans. voted incidentally because the registration and florida is the helms burton act requires the president to keep the categorized people as hispanic if they are hispanic if they say embargo until cuba has embarked they are. but it doesn't break down the upon a series of steps. this is a complex piece of legislation. about 40 pages long a single hispanic adjective by any other spaced small font type that says -- it says for example the term like cuba nor mexican or president may not remove the embargo until cuba is moving whatever. but look, anyone who watched president george w. bush snatch towards a market economy. market economy, i can quote that the white house away from al doesn't define what a market gore in 2000 those hari economy is bedizened with cuba important florida's 800 plus has right now. thousand cuban-americans can be. but the president in theory is that was the election if you constrained that president obama remember al gore lost the state can not officially end the of florida and the white house by 537 votes. embargo without getting congress you know what al gore would have -- without cuba doing these

done for half those loss one? steps, 30 pages worth of steps it was a lesson to other or congress repealing helms burton. i think frankly it will come to politicians. the president simply saying to the members of congress you have but look, florida has the fourth to understand i need to go ahead largest number of votes in the electoral college. with this, please don't the department of commerce which challenge me. takes the senses in this country senator helms was a chair on and tells us after the to the sinner relations. listened since this is believed dan burton was chair of the florida will move into a tie committee on western hemisphere with new york for forward with affairs and these were too powerful people who wanted to 29 electoral votes. strengthen the embargo. today one of the principal but, look, this is how you would leaders of the effort to end the explain the forces driving u.s. embargo as i said was richard policy toward any country. lugar, republican senator from as a very mixture of economic indiana who was the ranking security and domestic political minority member on the committee interest. what makes the cubin on foreign relations. if there is no chance that he relationship so intriguing is the ideology, the belief that would oppose the strength and ignoring the law. underlie these everyday interests. when president clinton signed

the helms burton act he did it we have a set of tightly in an auditorium he invited the cuban-american community to come structured believe that controls the way we react when we up from leaders to come up from perceive a threat to our interests from cuba. miami, he did it in an auditorium in the old executive office building to the right of the white house when you are he will work with computers? looking from the lafayette park okay. you know you go in in the and in the signing ceremony one of those where he had 25p and he morning, turn on your computer, it points up an operating wrote w. and handed it to one of system, windows probably, boots his campaign contributors and so it up and did you have very soon face in all the screen a group forth. of icons. one of them says e-mail, but one in the signing statement that he had attached to the law, he said says webb, another one says word i consider this law precatory. and excel. you are all with me? i had to look that up in the okay. the defeat foreign policy maker dictionary, it is advisory. in washington, d.c. doing the same thing mentally. when they go into a room and the it's the law and its explicit chair of a meeting says we have a problem with cuba. with the cubans have to do to stop the embargo. well, in just a second what mr. clint said i consider this everybody in that room does is

they mentally move the mouse, precatory. the cursor, over to the cuba on so if mr. obama were to end the upon and click on it, and what comes into their head, the embargo and someone challenged software in their head, is him on the basis of the helms burton would be possible to say distinctly different than what mr. clint said he never looked at this as with the words really would come into their head is the chairman of this said will have a problem with the say and then you have an government of france. interesting court case because i they learned they would move it don't think there has ever been over to the french icon. a challenge to a signing but i would like to do for the statement that has gone all the way to the supreme court. few minutes that i have adis i nobody wants to fight with this would like to focus on three as president, folks. fighting with him is a really important components of our cuba losing proposition right now. software. the first is the belief that with occasional bursts of but by himself he said i am going to keep the embargo until attention we can safely and cuba becomes a democracy. collect all those little countries that lived down there beneath the united states. >> enjoyed the talk by the way. you might touch on the cuban we are big, rich, and very missile crisis, how influential you think that is as far as powerful. cuba is obviously dwarfed by its reluctance to open arms and its continent white country.

our economy is to hundred 50 trading and that sort of thing. times larger than in the economy it seems it still hangs over. if cuba. >> i think it did. on an 6 feet tall and i am not a i am not sure that it still does, but unquestionably, mathematician. think of me as cuba and then think of a 15-foot july and next to me. unquestionably to go through the that is the economic archives of the kennedy library, relationship. the library in austin texas is if it's comparison the empire to be astounded by how worried state building and somewhere everyone was. around 1200 feet high so. i was a college undergraduate of mollyann here is the empire state building plus a couple hundred feet. the crisis in and around watching television and so forth, but they thought this was and imagine this economic john and used a portion of its going to be like a 1911 attack fabulous wealth to create the they could see coming at them most powerful military and the and. there was a very worried history of the human race. washington, d.c.. and that rall strength has given and then of course over time politicians such at richard

nixon during the campaign the that faded into the past just ability to tell voters, he said like we do now -- i took a the united states has the power flight three or four days after and mr. castro knows this to 1911. i was terrified. throw him out of office and that has also given a cabinet members it was just a flight. and i think the same thing happened with the cuban missile like secretary of state crisis over time and once of alexander haig the ability to ask president reagan for a course the soviet union simple green light. what he said according to nancy disappeared cuba will see essentially neutered in terms of reagan is you just give me the its ability. word and i will turn that but i think there was a sense of bleeping i went into a parking betrayal that this man is really lot. well what seem puzzling -- think of the second few well as the evil, that was cemented at the time as i read the documents and 6 feet to 1500 foot relationship what would seem puzzling to a i spend an awful lot of time and visitor from another planet is presidential library's reading why when the cubans refused to the ferry as advisers and so behave the way we want them to forth and it is fascinating to do so and to get a sense that the castro government was not thrown out of office. after the missile crisis there cuba was an turned into a was not that this man is a parking lot, how they managed to get away with it. communist, he standards, he

we could squish them easily. doesn't like us, but that this man is really evil in a hitler type of fashion he moved into a have we managed to get away with it? new category from the cuban first fall it is costly missile crisis but of course all especially in the currency that of that is gone. might matter the most in the end which is global opinion. but your reputation follows you through the years. so unless there is a crisis like the cuban missile crisis of 1962 >> i just want to say something. i'm not from this country which i would be happy to talk about later if you like, unless although i am a u.s. citizen, there is a crisis, why bother. and from south america and i remember a student of mine, we we have so many other important things to do. never understood about these you are living right now in the week more attention has been embargoes. given to cuba than any time we could never explain why the united states would do that to that small nation. since probably the shootdown of they said that was something the rescue plan in 1996. that had to do with the politics this is an unusual moment of looking up to this leader basically if someone goes up to which was very smart, bright a president like the first person but however the united president bush after the cold war when the soviets were gone states never put embargoes on the other nations like china, go up to a president like first

president bush, president clinton, second president bush or even now president of, and vietnam. we don't understand why did he say i would like to talk that cuba i would say you have a hard picked this nation that hurt them in a way. time getting on the agenda. there are other things to think about. we thought it was a very and and cuba's on important is also realistic attitude. how he would explain when we they want to fix government and say you need to be a space finally decided we had to do country, you need to do this. something about cuba back in it's like commanding them. the united states is a powerful 1960 we decided to do it with a country but has no right to little invasion called the bay decide for other nations will of pigs. they want to do. give cuba a short burst of attention than we could go back to what's really important. >> i think you can tell i couldn't agree with you more. we were convinced it would be a there is a syndrome that my generation was by the people who cakewalk. we really could squish them on the first week, the end of the first week of john kennedy's won world war ii. they had an all or nothing total presidency late january 1961 the victory. we wanted unconditional cia gave president kennedy surrender of our adversaries and

that is the way my generation intelligence analysis that said who fought the war raised people less than 30% of the population like me and my sense is that is still with fidel and in the 30% are included the negro's who will now fight. sense of entitlement that we had it took jfk's best and brightest lasted in large measure because three months to find out they the soviet union was powerful. would fight at the bay of pigs. certainly we could subdue but we are not going to be able to do the key to khrushchev in 1956 it they discovered with a couple said we will bury you and that thousand cuban exiles trained in was said by a man whose finger guatemala. we would have to do it ourselves with the marines and they might rested on a nuclear button. have to turn the place into a this was regardless how horrible parking lot. so what was plan b? those 1911 attacks were their first we went back to sneaky best shot was to fly a couple ways. into a couple buildings. president kennedy went his way, but his brother, attorney nikita khrushchev, i'm sure we would have destroyed him, too, general robert kennedy watched but this it could have been over a program called operation mongoose which was essentially armageddon. what we would call today the problem is explaining policy after the end of the cold war

when this threat -- cuba was state-sponsored terrorism sugar fields, arming assassins, 90 miles away. blowing up power stations, and take off from miami national airport and go into the wind tore the east, turn right and that's luis -- it didn't work there's cuba and five minutes well because we don't know how you see cuba. it's one thing to have a missile to destroy an economy without bombing it. fired at you from the peninsula using sabotage was hard because over of japan. the cubans are good at their intelligence and were able to it is another thing to have it protect themselves. fired at you from cuba. so what happened? they could destroy our strategic what happened lyndon johnson bombers before they could get inherited the white house in their injun started. and it would -- it was a 1963 and he was inexperienced in foreign affairs. legitimate worry. he was a domestic president and after the end of the cold war, my sense is what happened -- we got caught up in vietnam so they are talking about 1990, 1991 -- took him ten days before he picked up the telephone and as the defense interest walked out the door of the cuba policy called jay william fulbright a widely respected chair of the they just left. senate committee on foreign relations a fellow southerner george h. w. bush, first from arkansas and a brilliant president bush, named as

assistant secretary of defense man, the road scholar and lyndon for latin america a woman named nancy dorn. she was 31-years-old. johnson says marshall i do about she had no experience in latin cuba? america. she did not speak spanish, but we tried to of lead this cheap invasion so forth. she was the only republican who what do you think i ought to do? asked for the job and she got. senator fulbright began to reply president kennedy, president to say that's not get into nixon, president johnson and for would have given -- bad position anything dramatic and he didn't always went to someone who was even get the sentence out of the end of his mouth when lyndon experienced and competent who johnson intercepted to agree. you had confidence in because that america was a problem. after the end of the cold war he said i'm not getting into any there is nothing wrong with bay of pigs deal. i am just asking what we should nancy dorn. do to pinch their knots more she's not stupid. i don't mean that. than we are doing and that's it's important for me to been the u.s. policy ever since. emphasize she is a bright human that was the first week of being, she just is not the kind of person you would put in that december, 1963. it's what we do with job before the end of the cold war. the cold war ended people walked insignificant aggravations like cuba. out the door and into this case okay, for three decades the came saw cuban american

fight to contain communism is would justify this policy. community. who we have polling figures that but then the cold war ended and go back now for more than a decade and a half and it is a the justification for the very clear the cuban-american hostility was difficult to community is beginning to disaggregate but until recently continue. it was hard to say we are going it cast its vote on the basis of to keep him being angry at you because of what? which party would be more hostile to the government of the the anchor was the alliance with country from which the emigrated the soviet union, security which is unusual when you think about the irish-americans or the interest and it looks bad for a i italian-americans devoted the country that claims to be seen as strangling the economy of a bread-and-butter issues when they ran for office up in boston small neighbor and for no good they ran on the basis of reason. the soviet union disappeared in delivering the goods and services to their constituents. 1991. in 1992 and every year since the cuban-american leaders until then the general assembly voted recently ran on the basis of i in the fall on a resolution urging the united states to stop will be more effective in the embargo. getting washington to be hostile the last vote was september, to the castro government and recently -- let me if i can 2008. the vote was 185-3.

filibuster your question. the three in the united states, israel which has a completely in 2004, mr. bush was running separate problem with cuba and we can talk about it if you like for reelection. he had last and florida by 537 leader but the united states, israel, and palau. votes. in 2004, he tightened the do you all know where this is? embargo to restrict family i had to look on a map. visits and remittances. it is in the far western pacific now, he had pollsters that were basically you fly westward towards the philippines and before you get to the every bit as competent as the philippines used of and there is the island of palau. pollsters that helped president obama were candidate obama it is a very small country but windel white house last it is a country and has a seat november. mr. bush doesn't know what is in at the united nations and it the mind of cuban-american. doesn't have an ambassador. how can i get you to vote for me it has in new york attorney at hires to be its ambassador named in 2004? his bolster some told him tighten the embargo and he did. stuart beck and his instructions are to vote like the united in 2008, mr. obama's pollsters states said basically 185-to. every bit as competent told him

relax the embargo. not only does that look bad but and obviously ochered is giving there's a lot of people in the in to the cuban-american united states, the left end of community, the pollsters the democratic party in discovered that they were particular, the left of the unhappy about being able to democratic party that put all of visit their families and send the fizz in the campaign their family money and you can mr. obama just ran. see when you leave -- when you they don't like the embargo on go to leave havana you go cuba. if you read the nation magazine through immigration and customs and into a waiting room before for example, take that wonderful the plane before you go to board the plane and sit there and it magazine i recommend highly you is a real baby about as big as this room and there are people will see it speaks for an important part of the democratic that are crying, devastated party and they are not going to leave the party because mr. obama does this or doesn't because with the bush tightening do this in the case of cuba. they knew they were seeking where are they going to go? their mother for the last time. their mother was old. bouck republican? they can't go back for three they are going to be fair but they are not going to do the years. if there is a funeral no kind of work for mr. obama in extenuating circumstances will let you go back. 2012 they did in 2008 senator and i think they -- that is what has to be a concern you don't

know those people to wander off controlled u.s. policy until just like you don't want the recent. now the cuban-american community religious right to wander off is all over the place. from the democratic party if he if you look at them were john mccain. demographically, cuban-americans remember the concern about that? they are about 1.3 according to demobilizing the base issue. the 2000's and this 1.3 so first of all lead doesn't look good to be voted down cuban-americans living in the united states. if you go through the break 185-3. down, since this breakdown they that's bad. should be democrats. second, you've got significant people in a democratic party who there are very republican tide don't like what is going on in the policy towards cuba and then of demographics among some to you have business interests particularly agribusiness, the americans but the typical agricultural business is the strongest lobby by far that we cuban-american works in a hotel changing bed linen. the work in airports if you've ever been in miami airport the have. agriculture will defeat anyone if they are unified and they people that take your tickets or handle baggage that is a want to sell to cuba. democratic constituency. they belong to the democrats, very conservative groups. not the republicans, and i think royce farmers from arkansas. they are starting --

important growers. have any have you been to cuba? >> -- something to improve the relations on the embargo. cuba, every meal seems like royce and pork and they are >> i am hopeful. importing their royce from look, yesterday was interesting. thailand. imagine the shipping differential from thailand. is an encouraging first step. what is discouraging is this statement about we have to be agrobusiness once the market the relentless advocate of democracy, quote on quote, and backed so washington needs a good response to this criticism therefore we have to continue the embargo. and here comes the second that is what is discouraging believe in the kube ideology. because it puts you in the mind it is a firm conviction that we set of people like general under are responsible for uplifting what he says we have to write platt amendment because the cuba. i've been able to trace this cubans can't do this by back in the book from 1901 when themselves. congress passed the amendment. >> what kind of questions do you it granted the united states the think obama is going to face right to take over cuba whenever when he meets the leaders of the it felt necessary for the council of the americas? protection of life, property and >> questions on cuba or in individual liberty. general? >> questions all america's foreign policy. >> i think they are going to having passed the platt

amendment getting lost the right to come back we were already in give him the querist sailing cuba having taken over cuba from imaginable. this -- he defused baqubah the spanish in 1898, 1901 comes question which could have been the platt amendment and 1902 the big question. let me go back if i could a week leave. couple of years. 1906 we go back. the whole concept of the summit there was too much instability of the americas was created in in cuba and people asked the early 1990's by president president theodore roosevelt, a clinton. the first meeting was unlike any man who charged up san juan hill i believe 1993, 94. during the spanish-american war this is the fifth. they asked president roosevelt were you trying to do and he was the fourth was held in argentina particularly poignant plea questioned before a harvard and 2004 before the holidays. audience and here is what he i think it was either late said to the harvard audience. november or early december and i am seeking the very minimum of that hugo chavez was there interference necessary to make riling up the crowd. them good. i got a call -- i was home and roosevelt's secretary of writing this book and a friend called me and said turnon cnn. war, the man responsible for the they are burning down martha takeover of cuba in 1906 said the same thing directly to platte and rioting against president bush policy of latin

cubans. he presided of the university of america. all of its from the drug war to havana. he gave a speech and said we are here only to help you with our the immigration procedures to arm under your arm lifting he cuba, you name it but especially you again on the path of trade they were protesting wonderful progress. against. you watch. look, mr. obama regardless of okay, fast forward to a more where you are politically you recent time, 1991. have to look at the way he's the soviet union just disappeared and a reporter yelled out a question while mr. bush was walking by in the handling himself and being rose garden. handled, being advised by his he said are you going to talk to senior people and i think it is fidel castro now that you have been successful with mikhail just remarkable, i don't know if you are aware on thursday he gorbachev and mr. bush paused, turned around and said what's isn't just flying air force one from andrews air force base back the point? all i would tell him is what i to trinidad. am telling you, give the people where is he going? the freedom they want and then he is going to haiti on thursday see the united states do exactly and he is going to stay there a few hours and get back on the as we should, go down and left those people up. air force one and go to the dominican republic then to president bush's immediate trinidad. as far as i know no u.s. predecessor ronald reagan always

said first before talking with president has ever stepped foot him the cubans have got to kick in haiti. has anyone? out the russians but now the i don't think so. russians put on. it is a brilliant stroke. the soviets were gone. it is a real statement of a, what happened was clear in 1991 when the soviets disappeared president obama, care about u.s. policymakers reached into haiti which as you know is just the covered and pulled up platt a terribly sad humanitarian amendment. they pull out washington's centralizing responsibility. story. like teddy roosevelt and taft they are going to get him -- you wait and watch the applause today we insist cuba's leaders unless something famous last are misbehaving, that they are word don't let a political scientist predict the future. we always mess it up. violating their citizens' human rights and the united states but i would put a significant cannot stand buy quietly and part of my next month's paycheck allow this this behavior to that he gets as clear a ride as continue. and that brings us to the third he got in europe last week. believe in the cuba ideology which underlies both the neglect we will see. and commitment to uplifting. hugo chavez -- we will see. let's just see. listen, you have all been kind. the existential core of our i appreciate you coming and policy towards cuba today is our thank use so much for coming. [applause]

view of the region's inhabitants >> lars schoultz is a political as a retarded a branch of the science professor mr. schoultz human species. was formerly president of the they are backward. my generation's work for latin latin american studies association and is the author of several books including believe americans have been under developed which is a polite way the united states a history of of saying backward. u.s. policy toward latin america. for more information, visit or as a u.s. ambassador report from havana as the cold war was beginning in the 1940's she said unc.edu/departments/polisci. cubans possess the superficial charm of clever children at that under the surface they combine the worst characteristics of the spanish and negro cultures, from freedom fest 2009 in laziness, cruelty, your las vegas a panel discussion on responsibility and inbred where america conservatism is headed and what needs to be done dishonesty. to increase its influence. taking part of the discussion it is probably a sign of are richard fae author of conservatives betrayed, john of progress our diplomats no longer write sentences like that. the american conservative magazine, thomas phillips, founder and chairman of eagle

what we have to do now is not publishing member look for people to say that they think he cubin for an inferior people. you have to look at their behavior and then an fer that they think they are inferior. inferences from behavior are always risky. sometimes when my students and class is at unc looked like they are about ready to fall asleep why stop and say why are you here today? i could guess and say what you are here for is because i told you attendance was important and therefore you wanted to please me because i have your agreed in my hand and if you don't pass this course you will have to take another three hour course before you can get your degree and if you don't get your

college degree you won't get a good job and if you don't get a good job you can't do this, that ended the of surfing and i can make some inferences without hearing a word come out of the students mouth or i could say you are here today because of your first for knowledge. [laughter] not at 8:00 tuesday, thursday, but that's another story. inferences from behavior are really risky. but for a quick minute and then i will stop let's look at our most recent plan for cuba uplifting which is on failed in 2004 by the presidents kennedy for assistance to a free cuba. first of all well would you say