please help me welcome douglas brinkley. >> hello, ladies and gentlemen.i would like to welcome my dad. i would like everybody to honor him for his new book. [applause] 's. >> thank you, everybody. we are all friends, and i have been a professor of history for a long time. i have never been more proud of someone i have gotten to know who has worked so incredibly hard in so many different areas not just on wall street in the financial world but as a writer someone who worked with civil rights hero andrew young on a book's cover somebody who is put the idea of jazz and the policy together someone who just won a grammy award trying to foster jazz diplomacy with cuba. and for doing that this year won a grammy for latin jazz. he is an amazingly talented guy's. guy's. you will hear more from him in different books but tonight -- i mean he will write a lot more have a feeling, but tonight we will talk about a coin which is becoming a new york times bestseller. it is just right out of the gate. and it is an unbelievably great read. read. people have compared it to

release of white house tapes and stuff through the nixon administrationwh and the like, ih think douglas brinkley of it, has he changed his idealsrt of what kissinger was about, at least in the looking at the tapes? he is a lot worse than what he is portrayed in your book on kissinger? >> guest: we're always getting more material. i have listened to a lot of those tapes before i wrote that book. they were many, many of them available. i have watched the new ones as they have cometh out. there is no fundamental homelyt cow it was totally different than we thought. the tapes, you know, really are revealing because they show private conversations where kissinger didn't know he was being taped. so you see him sometimes cater to the darker side of richard nixon's personality. doug brinkley did a great job editing some of those tapes. i'm glad they're coming out. i have a friend evan thomas, who we talked about, who did the wise men with me, writing a biography of nixon based on those new tapes. i mean those tapes are weird butd for -- historians, we're talking about we used to have letters. we used to