negroponte did.gave an interview to a reporter for the "washington post" in which he said that if it were up to him, nation building would be no part of our united nations program. and that his experience in vietnam suggested it wasn't very easy. but, of course, that viewpoint was disregarded. negroponte was successful in getting a unanimous resolution of the united nations authorizing ordering the iraqis to permit inspections. and he would've favored at the time of his famous second resolution was brought portrait he would've favored giving the iraqis more time. but the folks in washington had planned an invasion and didn't want troops sitting around in iraq during the summer, in kuwait during the summer, a poor excuse, and we all know what happened. negroponte while at the u.n. also had two other significant events. one the adoption by the u.n. governing the intervention in iraq which recognized the right of the iraqis to tell the foreign troops to withdraw, which ultimately is what happened. and t

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we will have john negroponte. thank you for joining us.anted to pick up on that point of james rosen's report. a lack of faith, if you like coming president obama's role from the difficulty that poses. and how vital is that as we take on these militants, that we get support from the regional players. >> i think it is important no doubt. >> the past couple of years may have cost them doubts in the region. and we have also seen a very big turning point with the growth of isil and the execution of these two journalists. and i think it is very clear that president obama has had a change of heart here and is determined to do something about the situation. and i believe in recent days and weeks he started to act like quickly and smartly. ashely: would you agree that time is of the essence? we know that the estimates say that the number of members in this islamist group are 30,000 or more. they are spreading quickly, gaining more ground, which makes response to that that much more critical. what do you think of the strategy that has been laid out

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[applause] >> training his next and talks about negroponte, whose career stretches over five decades. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> we are lucky to have george liebmann with us tonight. george is in or in private practice in this story specializing in american and international diplomatic history. his publications include diplomacy between the wars, five diplomat in the shape of the modern world. tonight he's here are bad to us is by u.s. ambassador john make her ponty. locum, george. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. the book is called "the last american diplomat" not because you've in a literal sense did diplomat, but because in some respects is

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he left me and john negroponte to draft the peace agreement while he went out to dinner with a beautifulblonde so everyone paid attention to that and not why we were in town. he was sacrificing himself. [laughter] >> i did not say it was not useful. it could also be enjoyable. [laughter] >> one of the reasons he kept such an effective staff was the people he wanted and did not see as a threat he was totally loyal to. he sent me off once to a dinner off the record, how naÏve i was in those days, dinner with a foreign service officer to talk about how we could improve security because leaks were everyday. above the fold, "washington post" front page. i dutifully did that and said we have the same problem with senator fulbright in the foreign relations committee. next day is an above the fold headline, "kissinger aide attacks fulbright for leaking." >> which he was doing. >> which he was doing. i get a call from al haig, henry wants to see you. i figured cap, -- i figured, well, what am i going to do? >> this is not going to be a good meeting, you can tell. >> where am i going to work after

and if it had been left to greenstock and negroponte, there would not have been an iraq war. i'm quite sure of that. >> okay, thank you. >> any other questions? yes. >> [inaudible] the big one? this one? two questions, kind of. how old is he now? that's my first question. >> he's almost exactly my age. he's 73 or 76ment -- 75 or 76. >> and it sounds like an italian name. >> no, he's greek. well, his family has an interesting background. they were natives of the island of chios which was the scene of a masser of greeks by the -- massacre of greeks by the ottoman turks in the 1830s, massacred about 90% of the population. thereafter they became, essentially, wandering refugees. the family was in odessa for a while, it was in switzerland. his father wanted to join the greek diplomatic service, and they wouldn't let him because he'd been educated, he hadn't been educated in greece. and his father was a small scale ship owner who left london at the outbreak of the second world war and came to new york. his wife, who's a decade or two younger than he is, is an english woman who is t

. >> so negroponte -- [inaudible] >> thousand we're friends with vietnam -- now we're friends with vietnam, but there's no question that the development of the country is well behind those of the other southeast asian countries as a result of 20 years of communism. yeah. >> thanks. >> thank you. thank you, everyone, for coming. we have copies of "the last american diplomat" for sale at the table, and mr. liebmann had been happy to sign your book up at the table here. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> interested in american history? watch american history television on c-span3 every weekend. 48 hours of people and event bs that help document the american story. visit c-span.org/history for more information. >> book tv is on location in new york city at the publishers' annual trade show called bookexpo america, and one of the things we like to do is talk to the publishers about some of the books they have coming out in the fall. cynthia sherry is the publisher of a group called chicago review press. tell us, first of all, about chicago review press, cynthia. >> guest: we're an independe