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Is next, from hyde park, new york, home of the fdr president ial library and the annual roosevelt reading festival. Hello, everyone. For those who were here this morning, welcome back. To for oh who are new, welcome to the 2016 ralph reading festival. Were so glad to have you here today. I think you already know the format. Well talk for half an hour, about ten minutes of question and answer, and then i will go back and set up and you can get signed copies of the book which are pretty wonderful. Were very excited about this year here at the library. This is going to be our 75th 75th anniversar...

No question that on both fronts there were some pretty horrific battles. Yes, sir. Playing into macarthur with the savior complex, i shall return as opposed to week, was there any discussion . Theres a whole army behind us, who are you . I think that goes to the core of douglas macarthur. There was a suggestion, after he said eyes shall return, there was a suggestion by fdr and marshall, wouldnt it be great if we could say we shall return. Thats you sounds a lot more collaborative, but again, thats not macarthurs personality. To his credit, he took it personally that he would go back and do it...

Guest i think that was an effort by some of the rightwingers in the Nixon Administration to embarrass me and the Washington Post. They leaked the non facts, it was not affect at all but i think they leaked to the press that holton is going to be selected to succeed as the vice presidency. I have a copy of the headline of the story that Carol Fitzpatrick wrote saying for the post, holton is the selectee for Vice President. But i think it was all a fraud on the part of those people in the administration who wanted to embarrass me in the post. There is no factual basis were whatsoever. And while ...

So anybody watching doesnt ever end up at the water fountain the next day and sail my gosh, i dont know they thought that or somebody had that perspective or that point. That would change. So so to me that his role. T but what it does for me as it makes me bring my a game every time. I have to be prepared. If youre going up against bill riley, you want, you want to avoid be in the pinhead, big time. You will make sure you know what youre talking about have confidence in it before you engage in that conversation. So how does that affect the writing of the book . Pe it opens my eyes to the idea ...

S. [inaudible] ultimately what hope for the book is that young man gets a sense of what it takes herself interrogation, to ask questions of oneself and ones identity and position in the world. I think that theres a pretty establish narrative for what it is to be a young black man and experience racism and White Supremacy of what that looks light. We have a body of literature that deals with that. We have the folklore. We have the oral history of what that looks like but i dont think weve worked on enough is for young black men and thinking through what it means to experience that but also be i...