the cautionary tale of bill buford.th a perfectly good job as fiction editor at the prestigious "new yorker" magazine. at undignified age of 53, he pretty much pulled up stakes, put his whole past life on hold, and defected to france to learn how to cook. what happened to you anyway, buford? you used to have a good job, you hang out a couple of nights with batali and the next thing you know you're living in france and cooking. >> bill: it's true. i discovered a whole world that the rest of the world didn't seem to know about. just a very compressed, intense lifelong learned expertise and knowledge of food. it's not the food network, and it's not glossy magazines, and it's not something you'd get from reading a recipe book. it's something you get by just going deep. i was afraid of france because i knew if i went, took on the subject of french food, i'd have to go really deep. so we went, and we thought we'd stay for six months. and we -- we stayed for five years. >> anthony: we meet at bouchon comptoir abel. a bouchon i

he received regular reports from people like john buford who screamed the left flank of meade's army. buford would write at 5:00 in the morning from fairfield pennsylvania that the enemy has increased force considerably. to this point all need new about the position of lee's army was appeared tohis core be in the cumberland valley near chambersburg. at least one of them was moving along a turnpike from chambersburg to cash town. he then understood there were elements of lee's army that were as far east as york, pennsylvania which is also on that same chambersburg york pike he alsot of gettysburg understood there were elements of lee's army that were in carlisle pennsylvania but that's it that's all he knew and that would not change for 36 hours. remember how long it takes to move from one position to the next to inform anybody of anything. to move from fairfield, , to havenia headquarters at any town took four hours. so the positions change while the man's in route. edade wrote, m to general darius couch and here .s what meade says my army isn't positioned between emmitsburg and westm

celebrating with huge pride parades around the country from right here in new york all the way to bufordoming. now, there it was just two guys walking to cvs but they were having a good time so it counts as a parade. ( laughter ) ( applause ) but yesterday's supreme court news dimmed the celebration buzz justice kennedy was the swing vote supporting gay rights and there is thought trump's next pick won't be. like ending your birthday party with a cancer doctor popping out of the cake -- surprise! happy last birthday to you! ( singing ) ( laughter ) you guys sound like you were at the birthday for real. ( laughter ) though many are worried about the future of lgbtq rights, let's take a moment to celebrate how much progress has been made and not just in america but around the world. >> taiwan will become the first asian nation to legalize smeanchts history tonight down under australia's parliament voted to legalize gay marriage. >> germany's parliament legalized same-sex marriage in an historic vote. >> the landsupreme court overturned a gay ban signed into law four months. the supreme cou

one of those friends was bill buford who shared his thoughts. >> it was incomprehensible. i've tried to keep it incomprehensible. i've talked about it enough now to where i'm starting to accommodate it, but i think the in-comprehension is important because something very baffling and disturbing has happened. and i don't want to normalize his death. so i'm kind of a bit like you here, i've been keeping it raw. he gave you himself. he gave you -- it was straight, funny, rude, filthy, poetic. it was hilm. and i think everybody feels that the person they see on television is the person that he is. and i think that is true. now i'm beginning to suspect that actually the person that we see on television is the person that we see in real life, but that person is performing a little bit and there is clearly a person that we weren't quite seeing because otherwise that person wouldn't be dead now. and so i'm replaying all these sort of moments and little glimpses and episodes where i think, oh, there is a much more complex person there than i was realizing. >> so let's talk about th

what you folks have done with 10 center in buford and raise a monument for reconstruction. no one is calling for commemoration of reconstruction, but the national parks service has done something. it is important to talk about those unsung heroes. there are so many of those. these are extraordinary heroes, black and white, who stood against the grain. i think we need to do those. we have historians need to understand that we have be engaged with public history. that is where people are learning their history. you will not change some names, but you can rename them. we can make progress, we can move forward, we can accept our history and build upon it and do what is right in terms of making a better america. i want to call upon all historians to be involved. we write in our books but only our children and relatives read them. so let's do more. thank you to all and all the people that work so hard. every local community, i have never seen a community where you do not find those role models the matter where you are. those who stood for the right things. [applause] i have never