good terms with the british and french ambassadors and the chinese and also russians and if it had been left to the green stock they wouldn't have had an iraq war i'm quite sure of that. >> any other questions? >> two questions. how old is he now? >> is almost exactly my age, 75 or 76. >> ati talion? >> no, he's greek. his family has an interesting background. they were natives of the island which was the scene of the

massacre by the ottoman turks in the 1820s were 1830s, but it occurred up 90% of the population. thereafter, they became a sensually wandering refugees. the family was in odessa for a while and it was in switzerland. his father wanted you to join that did the medic service and they wouldn't let him because he had been educated. he hadn't been educated in greece and his father was a small-scale shipowner who left london at the outbreak of the second war and came to new york. his wife who is a decade or two younger than he is as an english woman who is the daughter of a prominent catholic family and whose mother was a belgian

aristocrat had been part of the belgian resistance during the war and is one of the closest friends of queen elizabeth was a key has an interesting family background and the other family background that is quite remarkable is that when he was in honduras, he and his wife adopted two children and after they left honduras, they adopted three more of them so he has five adopted children some of whom are still in school and college. so he has an interesting, very interesting family. >> i've never heard of a greek name that speaks to >> there is a negroponte street on the venice light. >> the second question was i grew up in the vietnam era but i

didn't know that. was it successful? >> negroponte's greatest frustration is that at the time it stopped, the north vietnamese were down to the last surface to air missiles so they were open at that point. it would have been turkish habit continued and that's why negroponte fought we could've gotten an agreement that would have required the withdrawal from south vietnam and this was the view of sir robert thompson and of the general. now in kissinger's defense there are few things to be said. one of them is the bombing is

that the bombing had been considered earlier during the johnson administration and hadn't been done is that the memory is of the reach read from the chosen reservoir in korea were still fresh and there was fear that it would provoke chinese or russian intervention and the reason that the bombing was done in 73 and when it wasn't done previously was that both chinese and the russians wanted things from the united states and kissinger was confident that they would not intervene if we bombed. ..

>> now we are friends with vietnam but there's no question the development of the country is well behind those of the other southeast asian countries as a result of 20 years of communism. >> thank you everyone for coming. we have copies of the last american diplomat for sale at the table and mr. lieberman will be happy to sign your book at the table here. thank you. >> thank you. pp