joining me are the book's authors peter kombluh and william leogrande. the archive and william leogrande isku at the american university. i'm pleased to have both of them here. let me just talk about the beginning. what were the lost opportunities? why have we not had better relationship with cuba after all these years? >> we've missed a couple opportunities. there was an opportunity at the very beginning for the united states to coexist with fidel castro's revolution. we had an ambassador in havana who worked very hard to try in 1959 and 1960 to see if he could find common ground for coexistence. that didn't work. relations were broken in 1961. after the missile crises, there was an opportunity because the cubans were upset with the soviet union and president kennedy opened secret chances to see if there was a possibility ofÑÑ normal saying. that effort at dialoguended with kennedy's assassination. fast forward to the ford administration there was an attempt pie henry kissinger as part of the overall structure he envisioned and that was interrupted when