keen observer of human nature goes -- his reluctance to attend the execution of a black man named cicero, it is derived from the scenes i learned about in scenes i gathered in new york. he doesn't want to go, he needs to be convinced to go. the theory of moral sentiment, to be in sympathy with someone on the gallows, it got to the point that i was sitting in my computer, dennis and wants to write down what cicero, named after the great orator, what he said on the gallows, here is my moment, i can hit that picture, say what he has to say, then i have as a historian and -- there's no evidentiary trail, he would not have been allowed to speak. there's no way that a black man on the gallows in boston in 1764 would have been allowed to speak in public, do anything but the peak a formalized christian confession and make his peace with a minister. i came against the same evidentiary standard as a historian and he is not saying anything, what does he want to say? i can't tell. i should wrap it up. i couldn't hit the picture in either case. i didn't get hit by it which was a small victory. [appla

essie said, cicero illinois, a blue-collar, a number of things all of which they relate. that defines them. so, without a specific place, i don't want to put jc on the spot. he might identify himself in a different way. i am not going to find a passage in here but i asked him what are you going to do with your life? he said i'm going to become a lawyer and get a house and then get a better house and then get a better house. [laughter] it is true. in other words, he was taking from his own experience what might well happen. he accepts it. that is not, the whole idea of belonging somewhere is a hard thing to do with but most of us belong somewhere. >> good job peter. i was struck by the parallels that many of us are here from the foreign service and it is a little bit different jumping around countries but some of us don't have a real basis back in the states and had parents and all of that. how do you characterize the parallel with the foreign service and your re low friends? >> one question that comes up is why didn't you to come and why didn't you do a military and forei

i say well, i am from cicero, ill.. echo they start to find out. .. >> it's a hard thing to deal with. but most of us belong somewhere. >> good job, peter. i was struck by the parallels that many of us are here from the foreign service. that's a little bit different from being in different countries, but some of us don't have a real basis back in the states. you had problems with our parents and all that. how do you characterize parallel with the foreign service and your relo friends? >> one question that comes up is why didn't you do military and foreign service and those populations. i figure they are a very different story. they go through all the anxieties of people moving, but they tend to move within the government could tune. the military more so with the state department. but in the military everywhere you go there is the px. wherever the hamburger is there to have a school system that is overseen by the pentagon. might be owned by the pentagon. the transportation service is always the same. the health benefits