professor kissinger? dr. kissinger? secretary kissinger? he replied, no, your excellency will do. [laughter] this is not my plan for tonight. this book, "world order," covers roughly 400 years of diplomatic geopolitical, military history and four or five continents. we have a little less than an hour -- [laughter] when we finish dealing with the whole book, we'll talk about tax policy. [laughter] but what i want to do is to take, dr. kissinger, what you have written and see its application today. i think anybody looking at the headlines would look at your book and say what world order? the westphalian peace that you talk about where states respect each other easter to have y'all integrity, balance each other out, don't interfere, you look at isil which crosses national boundaries, you look at the united states bombing in syria to stop isil which helps protect the syrian dictator we want out, you have afghanistan which you describe really less as a country than a group of tribes whose central mode of power is resentment and vengeance. can you look at the world today and actually sa

you, professor kissinger, doctor kissinger, secretary kissinger he replied your excellency will do.this isn't my plan for tonight. this covers 400 years of diplomatic military history and four or five continents. we have a little less than an hour. when we finish dealing with the book we will talk about the tax policy. but what i want to do is take doctor kissinger what you have written and see its application today. don't interfere. look at isis which crosses the national boundaries and if you look at the united states on them in serious. it's less than a country as a group of tribes whose central out of power is resentment and vengeance. can you look at the world today and actually say something like a world order is possible or is that an old concept that is simply not applicable today? >> first of all i agree with you that it is no world order today. and perhaps if i tell you what induced me to write the book i was having dinner with a friend, professor at yale and i was discussing various ideas i had for writing a book most of which had to do with the personalities and he said

remember when jerry ford and henry kissinger bombed cuba?u don't remember that because the mad bomber in the white house was stopped by jimmy carter. there is more at stake in presidential elections than we ever realized on election night. thanks to a stunning new book, we now know that henry kissinger was plotting major military strikes against cuba including bombing while serving as president gerald ford's secretary of state. ford and kissinger agreed that bombing cuba would have to wait until after the 1976 presidential election, which the world should be ever more thankful tonight to jimmy carter for for jimmy carter winning and finally driving henry kissinger out of the war planning business. on february 25 of the election year, henry kissinger, national security adviser, ben scrocroft and president ford discussed attacking cuba in the oval office according to an official me memo. kissinger said, i think we're going to have to smash castro. we probably can't do it before the elections. president ford replied, i agree. a few weeks later,

professor kissinger, dr. kissinger, secretary kissinger, he said your excellency will do. this is not my plan for tonight. this book, "world order," covers roughly 400 years of diplomatic geopolitical and military history and four five continents. we have less than an hour. when we finish dealing with the whole book we will talk about tax policy, but what i want to do is to take dr. kissinger, what you have written and see its application today. i think anybody looking at the headlines would will get your book and say, what world order? the west salient piece you talk about where states respect each other's territorial integrity, balance each other out, don't interfere, and isis crosses national boundaries, to talk about it, which helps protect syrian dictator we went out, you have afghanistan which you described less as the country that a group of tribes whose central low -- power is resentment and vengeance. can you look at the world today and say yes something like a world border -- world order is possible or is that an old concept that is not applicable today? >> first

him, professor kissinger got doctor kissinger, secretary kissinger. he replied no, your excellency will do. this is not my plan for tonight. this book world order covers roughly 400 years of diplomatic achieve a political and geopolitical military history and four or five continents. we have a little less than an hour when we finish dealing with the book we will talk about tax policy but what i want to do is take, doctor kissinger would you have written in to see its application today. anybody looking at the headlines headlines with look at your book and say what world order. the piece that you talk about where the states respect each other's territorial integrity, balance each other, don't interfere. you look at isys crosses national isis crosses national boundaries and with the united states on making serious to stop which helps protect this year he and dictator. you have afghanistan that you describe this as a country and as a group of tribes and the central motive power is resentment and vengeance. can you look at the world today and actually say

henry kissinger's plan, the goal in kissinger's words, smash cuba. it's all coming from a batch of newly declassified government documents. paul beban is here with the report. >> these are transcripts of a series of conversations between secretary kissinger, president gerald forward and a few national security members. just how willing kissinger was to go to war. in late 1975, the middle of the cold war, cuban leader fidel castro took a step that we now know almost provoked a drastic response from the u.s. castro sent cuban troops to the african nation of angola. global dominance between the u.s. and the soviet union. i think we're going to have to smash castro he told president gerald ford, in an oval office meeting in 1976. we can't probably do it before the election. the president's reply, "i agree." recounted in a new book, "back channel to cuba." >> i think the president was personally offended he had held out an olive branch to castro and castro through it aside. >> months later, another oval office conversation with the president. kissinger:me

secretary of state henry kissinger, including aircraft, ports, marines on the ground. the goal, "smash cuba", and it's coming from a batch of newly declassified governments. paul beban has been taking a closer look. >> the documents are stunning. they have been kept secret. it's a transcript of conversations between henry kissinger, gerald ford, president and a small team of security officials. they've been made public, and it's a breath taking glimpse of how willing kissinger was to go to war. >> reporter: in late 1979, the middle of the cold war cuban leader fidel castro took a step that almost prove ebbed a drastic response from the u.s. he sent cuban troops to the african nation of angola where a civil war was a proxy battle in the ongoing struggle for global dominance between the u.s. and soviet union. kissinger, who had been working behind the scenes to improve relations is cuba were furious: the president's apply: the previously undisclosed episode is recounted in the book "back channel to cuba." >> i think kissinger was offended that he had held out an olive br

could kissinger work in -- a speed of media. could kissinger work in today's world? absolutely.e problems we have today as we do not have diplomats that know how to use the media as well as they should. >> walter isaacson on henry kissinger's world. >> let's get you a data check right now. futures indicating a mixed open. s&p futures are down while nasdaq futures are little changed. the 10 year yield going down. and nymex crude moving up a little bit. up today, data coming including cpi. and you're seeing the big go down to about 15 as well. >> this is bloomberg surveillance. i'm brendan greeley. i don't wear a bowtie, but tom keene does. .carlet fu is here give a morning must read. jodi greenstone miller. she runs an executive search firm. she came up with this based on the news that facebook and apple and other companies in silicon on a hike working freeze for women. >> can you get me? here's what i'm doing. i'm playing my tambourine, because i want you to keep singing. >> you are in full agreement. >> amen. i have four children under age five at home, and i would really like

. >> we now know that henry kissinger was plotting an all out attack on cuba. >> this would have been a very serious confrontation with soviet union. >> it's very possible that the united states was planning another world war iii. >> and to remember, kids are not merely adults, they are developing humans. >> in the midst of a violent confrontation from the chinese government supporters. >> we begin with the latest on the ebola sair tha scare that iw broadening to other areas of the country. howard university says they are evaluating a patient for the virus. that nearby shady grove they had isolated a patient with flu-like symptoms and travel history that matches criteria for ebola. >>> crews decontaminate the apartment where thomas duncan had been staying before he was admitted to the hospital. and at the white house, officials hold what is called a heated press conference. where they assure reporters that there virus. >> are you sure there won't be breakdowns similar? >> dr. anthony fauci said the battle against the virus will not end soon. >> we have a case now and it is entirely co

you, professor kissinger, doctor kissinger, secretary kissinger he replied your excellency will do.this isn't my plan for tonight. this covers 400 years of diplomatic military history and four or five continents. we have a little less than an hour. when we finish dealing with the book we will talk about the tax policy. but what i want to do is take doctor kissinger what you have written and see its application today. don't interfere. look at isis which crosses the national boundaries and if you look at the united states on them in serious. it's less than a country as a group of tribes whose central out of power is resentment and vengeance. can you look at the world today and actually say something like a world order is possible or is that an old concept that is simply not applicable today? >> first of all i agree with you that it is no world order today. and perhaps if i tell you what induced me to write the book i was having dinner with a friend, professor at yale and i was discussing various ideas i had for writing a book most of which had to do with the personalities and he said

talk about henry kissinger. >> henry kissinger deserves much credit for taking the initiative to reach to fidel castro through secret emissary, sending him a handwritten note saying, we should try and improve relations and let's set up secret mechanism to start talks. that was in the summer of 1974. a series of talks did take place culminating in an extraordinary three-hour meeting at the pure inel here in new york city july 1975. is always states wanted cuba to compromise either his foreign-policy or domestic policy to come to terms with the united states. fidel castro had a request from ,ugustine nieto in angola challenging the movement. castro sent troops into angola. kissinger was irate that a pipsqueak, as he kept calling castro, would project military power into another continent and thwart kissinger's chessboard design of the cold war on that continent. he ordered of these contingency plans, which are now in the news and posted on the website of the national security archive. our book wrote this story of these documents. they were pretty powerful contingency plans for airstrikes

cheri kissinger has no idea guys like luke and i are going to be hammering together a book like this and in fact there's a lot of paranoia of people in the nixon white house, what is said about me on this case and what does nixons say when i leave the room and i will sell you to be fair to players of the nixon years, being a president, anybody else has to be an underling. nixon isn't looking for a lip, isn't looking for people to say he wasn't right, isn't looking to be challenged. only haldeman challenged him. it comes up well only because it is yes, boss, yes, sir, you got it and it is constantly trying to to tell the president in a sycophantic way everything he is doing is right. the other part of the book, the vietnam war, you can't get around it when you study this period. looking at nixon using let's bomb them, let's bomb from the jesus out of them to show china we are not week. a lot of nixon continuing the war in vietnam into cambodia and fall, to show the chinese we did not hold it and it was on when using the bombing as a wedge and even say even if we lose the vietnam war,

henry kissinger, mr. rockefeller, and more portly, alexander haig, who was nixon's chief of staff. he had been the precipitating agent back on august 1, when in two conversations that day with gerald ford, he had first hinted at and then made explicit the likelihood -- the imminent likelihood -- that ford would in fact become president and then tacked on almost as a footnote, a series of options, including a pardon, affecting his predecessor. >> our viewers will see all of that as the president mentioned that. do you think the president was successful in front of the committee? >> i think he was successful. you will see this in the short term, but it must also be said that his colleagues who knew him best were perhaps most predisposed to believe him when he said that there was no deal. and that sends the action of going before congress, which is really the muster mattock thing about all of this -- had a reinforcing quality to it. now, since the years, the debate has moved on as to what the specifics were, what the motives were, who intended what, what signals percent, and to the la

i am assuming you start with kissinger. you have to include him. who else? >> in this country, you got a number of people who think hard about foreign-policy from henry kissinger to some people who know the economic side. the larry summers and others. people who understand the domestic economics as well as the foreign policy. you also want to internationalize the conversation. people from germany, france, russia, china. you don't want to start excluding people. the whole idea of integration, to admit together a world where people sign up to some of the same rules and build some arrangements. by definition, it involves bringing in others. in some cases, compromising. we may have to make some difficult decisions. where we are willing to dilute or compromise some of the things we want in order to get others to play ball. we cannot just set the rules and say you have to sign up. it has to be a real consultation about what are going to be the rules. >> shared interests. >> also, we also have to give them a chance to play if they are going to pay. for someone to b

they were specifically interested in henry kissinger as a nixon agent. they asked if he had discussed it with nelson rockefeller, his vice president designate. alexander haig was nixon's chief of staff and still chief of staff of the white house and had onn the precipitating agent august 1 when in two conversations that day with gerald ford, he first hinted at made it seem imminent that ward would become president and tacked on almost as a footnote a series of obstacles including the pardon. >> the viewers will see that in the testimony. do you think the president was successful before the committee? >> i think he was successful. i think you'll see in the short term in terms of the reassurances he offered his colleagues. but it must also be said his colleagues who knew him best were perhaps most are disposed to believe him when he said it was no deal. the action of going before congress, which is really the most rheumatic thing about all of this -- dramatic think about all of this, had a reinforcing quality to it. debate,ears since the it has moved on as

and, you know, we were trying to get congress or kissinger and ford were trying to get congress to pass a bill that would provide $722 million to the vietnamese. i think that would have been helpful and make some difference. i don't think it would have changed things so dramatically. so what it says to me the real choice is when you enter a war, and when you enter a war especially when it goes into a lesson you don't anticipation which is losing there are virtually no options. you know that decision of entering a war and understanding i think from the beginning what the exit strategy is, what the goals are, what the time line is. and having an appreciation for what the impact is going to be because now they're saying, i think they're making this film has taught me is reminder of the human cost of war, which is significant in which you see in watching this film. and i think sometimes gets lost in the debate of what we're doing and the strategies and the plans. you know, what is -- what's the cost on the ground to the people who are most directly impacted and affected. >> let's watch abou

change and the free market in "this changes everything" followed by former secretary of state henry kissinger's take on international affairs. eric schmidt and jonathan rosenberg, adviser to ceo larry page, are seventh with "how google works." in eighth place, the founder of paypal analyzes the value of start-up companies in his book "zero to one." it's followed by the recount of the 1879 u.s. naval expedition to the north pole in "the kingdom of ice." and wrapping up is mitchell sue cover's account of the attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi, libya, on september 11th, 2012. for more information visit indiebound.org. gloos we're pleased to be joined on our set right outside the history and biography room by former justice of the supreme court, sandra day o'connor. this is her fifth book, "stories from the history of the supreme court: out of order."ourt justice o'connor, when did you discover that you enjoyed writing? >> guest: oh, goodness. all you do as a justice is write, so nothing changed there. and there were just lots of things to write about and tell about. now, what are you doing at

. >> i was in berlin last week with jim baker and henry kissinger.re there for the fall of the wall, which was 25 years ago. and because it's the 25th anniversary, obviously, and because baker was receiving the kissinger prize. the world we have now, how do we deal especially with isis in the middle east? ed. >> tom, i think the only thing that offers much hope is if we could pull together a true international coalition of countries, we should go 100% all out to defeat the radicalism and the terrorism that's arisen in the middle east. but you're not going to get it done unless you bring the rest of the world together behind it. >> what is the role of our arab allies? >> well, we have toour arab allies involved in the fight. but it can't be on a sectarian basis. the truth of the matter is that iran is very much opposed to what isis is doing. i wouldn't be at all surprised if iran was not helping us quietly deal with some of this. >> secretary baker raises the possibility of iran becoming more involved. our closest ally in the middle east is israel, ob

. >> here's a guy who had worked for henry kissinger but doesn't know a whole lot about the middle east, doesn't speak arabic, doesn't know the region. >> today, it's my honor to announce that jerry bremer has agreed to become the presidential envoy to iraq. >> narrator: president bush made it official: bremer was now in charge of the occupation. after a two-week crash course on middle eastern politics, he arrived in iraq to head what was known as the coalition provisional authority-- the cpa. >> we flew on a c-130 into baghdad. the thing that was striking to us was the fact that a lot of the buildings were on fire. >> narrator: baghdad had been burning for one month. >> there'd be buildings on fire. the fires would just have to burn themselves out because there was no fire department. >> there was no government. there were no police. the army was gone. >> narrator: bremer's headquarters were in a heavily fortified area of baghdad called "the green zone." >> the green zone became the emerald city, walled off from the rest of iraq. the rest of iraq, electricity is intermittent at best, s

talked to henry kissinger. how many minutes did he give you? >> he told me he would give me an hour. he gave me an hour and a half. he was emotionally present and nvested in recalling these events. i was struck by the -- his able -- he was 89 at the time that i interviewed him to recall every event that i asked him about down to often the minutes of when it took place the information he had and the decisions he made based on the information he had at that time. so that was both helpful interviewees y on to explain events to us because we don't have a narrator. so he was able to, i think document what happened from washington's pers speckive during this tumultuous period. >> how much of the interviewing do you do? >> i did probably 95% of it. >> and what's your experience from interviewing people? would they give you a straight answer, give you the truth? if you don't get it, how do you -- what do you do? >> you know, things that people have their own perspective and you know, i don't -- i don't try, you no, i don't believe in a single truth, ri

kissinger? [applause] >> good evening. thank you so much for coming. hello. my name is sarah bolin and i'm the events coordinator here. in behalf of our entire staff i'm so happy to welcome you to kramer's tonight for one of our first events in our event season. we got start erred earlier in september, and i hope if you haven't already you'll take a moment and pick up one of our events calendars and if you haven't already, please follow us on facebook, on twitter, and sign up for our e-mail newsletter. so thank you again so much for coming. i'm really pleased to welcome you, and i'm especially pleased to welcome ann hagadorn for her new book "the is are invisible soldiers" talking about privatization of national security and how it operates and where it's heading and the journalist has been a staff writer at the "wall street journal" and has taught writhing at northwestern and columbia. her previous books are wild ride, ransom, beyond the river, and savage peace. please join me in welcoming her to kramer books. [applause] >> thank you, sarah, great to be here

so their perspective is essential. >> you talked to henry kissinger. how many minutes did he give you? >> he said he would give me 45 minutes but he ended up giving me an hour and a half. >> what did you learn from him that you didn't expect? >> well, you know, i think that was was surprising to me about the interview is i felt that he was emotionally present and invested in recalling these events. and i was struck by the -- his ability -- i think he was 89 at the time that i interviewed him to recall every event that i asked him about down to often the minutes of when it took place the information he had and the decisions he made based on the information he had at that time. so that was both helpful ecause we rely on interviewees to explain events to us because we don't have a narrator. so he was able to, i think document what happened from washington's perspective during this tumultuous period. >> how much of the interviewing do you do? >> i did probably 95% of t. >> and what's your experience from interviewing people? would they give you a straight

. >> rose: kissinger and. >> and james baker. and i worked, i didn't work toward kissinger but i did work for baker. the three ingredients you need to be a consequential effective secretary of state number one the support of the president. and i don't mean the rhetorical support i mean the bond with the president. baker had it. number two, the opportunity. the were has to at least be in some measure of stress that makes it amenable to some kind of american fix. and negotiating skills. the world got to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle on your living room floor and intuitiveliment i don't know how these guys do it. kissinger was act democratic, how do you truly understand how to negotiate. both of these guys. >> rose: if you look at where the president is today, it's a huge threat today, was there opportunity or is there opportunity that he has some of these qualities he can carve out for himself, a legacy that is much better than it is going into this crises. >> i would argue charlie that the world has become such a cruel and unfor

kissinger, excuse me, tell me where i'm going.id don't tell anyone, jonny, i'm going to beijing. >> right away he started thinking mandarin. i want to build on that. do you go about looking at the nixon administration? you're such an ethical, up right guy, your son. i'm wondering that was an administration left and right pan for anything but. you left long before anything hit the fan, i understand. but what did you think of nixon? what did you think of the way he acted, some of the crazy things that went behind the scenes? >> well, nixon actually, as we all know, a dual personality. the personality i worked with, taking him in his papers in, ingress and egress of his papers, summarizing his meetings beforehand, those were tremendous opportunities, neil. but the thing i respected the most about president nixon was his kindness to jon jr., to his brothers and sisters. nixon loved our children. he spent a lot of time with them in the oval office. he took them around the white house. >> at this time you had only like 48 kids, right? s

kissinger predicting? if anything in the international order? and as some scholars said, there's a russia-china exit. how do you comment on that? thank you. >> well, some people say about russia-china, some people about policies -- american attorneys, i don't know. i can assure you, first of all, that unfortunately the information -- international community didn't do its job to create principles of foundations of new world order. that's why we have disorder. second, what we know that there will be no -- we know we failed. we know there will be no third power world. i don't like multipolar world but i was one of -- we never developed, what does that mean multi-powered? what powers are we speaking? the conversation between them. unfortunately we only now understand how the problems we have among us, what world we have to live. international organizations including u.n., international law, not only you may blame russia but i can point of the countries. all of us, international community in general participate in this destructive exercises are that'

many ways, you know, nixon and kissinger come out as the bad guys in my book, and rightfully so, buthat i do show is that their strategy to implement superpower offensive, diplomatic offensive against hanoi's war by getting the chinese and the soviets to put pressure on north vietnam to negotiate the working table, actually, it succeeded. the chinese and the soviets did betray the north vietnamese and force them to accept american terms. however, this is the second part to my diplomatic, my diplomatic struggle analysis is that i show hanoi's small power diplomacy, which included citizen diplomacy that targeted the global anti-war movement, the afro-american solidarity movement and, in fact, in many ways was the most impressive struggle and aspect of hanoi's war effort was the most underutilized because it didn't actually put much stock in the diplomatic offensive. this actually proved the most effective. it was able to blunt nixon's superpower diplomacy, and i can talk more about that in q&a. but in the end, what i try to show is that, basically, you know, we don't know a lot about t

kissinger was an academic. how do you understand how to negotiate? both of these guys did. >> if you look at where the president is today, we have a huge threat today. was there or is there that he can carve out for himself a legacy that is better than it is going into this crisis? would argue the world has become such a cruel and unforgiving place and much more complex since the cold war that presented a world of semi-order. if you ask people what was the act discreet and important of foreign policy, the most heroic act is probably that he killed osama bin laden. than that, you have a world on fire. vladimir putin having his way in the ukraine. decentralization in the middle east, syria, iraq. the emergence of isis. the new bogeyman threatening the united states. argue thatcould also he inherited an economic crisis that needed his full attention and there was not a time for him to go off around the world and try to solve the crisis or find a central principle that needed to be applied. the collapse of the economic system. became,anaging this given t

. >> kissinger? >> and james baker. i worked for baker.f the three ingredients you need to be a consequential secretary of state, one is support of the president. i don't mean rhetorical support, i mean a real bond. number two, the opportunity. the world has to be in some measure of distress that makes it amenable to some kind of american fix. and negotiating skills. the world has got to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle and intuitively -- i don't know how these guys do it. kissinger was an academic. baker was a lawyer. how do you understand how to negotiate? both of these guys did. >> if you look at where the president is today, we have a huge threat today. was there or is there opportunity that he can carve out for himself a legacy that is better than it is going into this crisis? >> i would argue the world has become such a cruel and unforgiving place and much more complex since the cold war that presented a world of semi-order. if you ask people what was the most discreet and important act of foreign policy, the most heroic act is probab

henry kissinger covers this in his new book.tability at risk because of oil moving? >> one of the things people have been talking about, are the saudi's letting this go? you have analysts saying that the saudi's are fine, they have large reserves, the iranians are not. some people would say maybe they want to push them to a deal, the saudis do not want a deal. >> most americans are clueless wart the massive iran-iraq before saddam hussein. why theu think about iranians might want a nuclear weapon, he ryan officials talk about the use of chemical weapons against iranian star during that war. they believe the saudis blessed the iraqis using chemical weapons. >> the tension in the kissinger book is between very strict islam iran and a sophisticated society. a complex and middle-class society. can we gain traction in tehran with a non-islamist? >> there's been some momentum in the talks with the election of hassan ronning. -- hassan rouhani. you have a foreign minister who has spent years in the u.s. >> can we trust him? >> there's

restored with lavish donations from foreign sponsors, especially americans-- rockefeller, ford, henry kissingerard nixon. here you can buy the age of the impressionists in reproduction. it's ironic that having started out as radicals, the impressionists should end up being the art of the establishment, the most sought-after, the most well-known, and the most reproduced art in history. the familiarity of impressionism deprives us of the disquiet the works provoked when they were first exhibited. the very modernity they tried to paint is now bathed in easy nostalgia. painting the rituals and pleasures of an expanding middle-class world, the impressionists hold up a flattering mirror to our own desires and aspirations. here, the restaurant fournais, a chateau by the river seine, a group of people sit on a sunlit balcony, surrounded by the trappings of material well-being-- food, drink, nice clothes, easy friendship-- happy in themselves, confident in their world. but in the 1880s, a number of young, ambitious artists felt that the impressionist technique had taken them as far as it could. they tri

i assume you start with kissinger, it's inevitable you would include him.o else. >> in this country you got a number of people who think hard about foreign policy from henry kissing to bresenski but then you also want to get you would want to internationalize that conversation. you have people from germany and france from russia. you don't want to start excluding people. the whole idea of integration to knit together a world where people sign up to the same rules and build the arrangements to betress them by definition involves bringing in others. and in some cases compromising. we may have to make some difficult decisions. where we're willing to dilute or compromise some of the thing we want in order to get others to play ball. we can't just set the rules and say you got to sign up. it's got to be a real consultation about what are going to be the rules. >> rose: shared interest. >> but also people, if we're going to ask them to pay we've got to give them a chance to play. they just won't to use the phrase you used before. for someone to be a responsible s