>> of good example of lie backfiring nikita khrushchev most americans would be shocked to know 1957 the soviet union was the first country to put a ballistic missile in the air in the first country to put a satellite into outer space. but after launching the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the soviets common name the about nikita khrushchev who was their leader at the time, who lied to the american people and the american leadership and tried to give us the impression that they had a huge advantage in missiles over the united states. they did not have a huge advantage. we could not tell the balance of power because we did not have overhead satellites at the time to look down and counted the missiles. when they said they had a lot of missiles most people assumed that was true. of course, they didn't but it spurred us to build many missiles and therefore when president kennedy came to office 1961 thinking there was a missile gap in favor of the soviet union we discovered is that there was but it favored us because they were lying and did not have that many and of course, we resp

>> i think a good example of an lie that backfired involved nikita khrushchev. most young americans would be shocked to know that in 1957 the soviet union was the first country to number one put a ballistic missile in the air, and number two, the first country to put a satellite in outer space. but after launching the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the soviets and here we are talking mostly about nikita khrushchev would be a leader at the time allotted to the american people and lied to the american leadership and tried to give us the impression that there was a missile gap that they had a huge a advantage in missiles over the united states. in fact they did not have a huge of feige of missiles. we couldn't tell what the balance of power was regarding missiles because we didn't have overhead satellite at the time that could look down in the soviet union and count their muscles so when they told us they have lots of missiles most people assumed that that was true. of course they didn't have an advantage in missiles but what it did is it spurred us to b

first time he met nikita khrushchev. he thought i am young, i am bright, i am dynamic and charismatic and that is how i won the presidency, i will be able to charm this communist russian peasant with no problem. one problem. he didn't. and khrushchev as the story goes, savaged the president to the deck of the president came out of the first summit meeting action faced. khrushchev took the measure of the man. mrs. kennedy on the other hand meeting at the same time with mrs. khrushchev and they are getting along famously. i am not here to argue that that saved the free world or save the from the bomb being dropped but if you have some personal diplomacy going on behind the scenes that certainly helped. here is another point i wish to raise. if you can see, mrs. kennedy is grab a -- wearing a sedate dark suit, lovely pillbox hats she became famous for. look at mrs. khrushchev. you are a third world country as we call them in those days. we have aligned with the soviets or with the united states and you have to decide am i g

-- statements out of washington that some washington people in the government were convinced nikita khrushchev was sincere in his desire for peace, and he said that the system board and so wrong. he said, he is a common test. -- communist. he is a meet their ellis. he will therefore do what ever is necessary to achieve his ends. sincerity has nothing to do with it. i recall talking to -- >> you see a man who understands that you need to do a deal to initiate, but you need to negotiate from strength. it is time to negotiate because of those early years of the reagan presidency, the united states had come back in its list three straight and fighting spirit. the soviet had declined because of economic problems, the time was right to do a deal. this is his sense of the shifting political forces and what we ought to do with them. you saw here a second point, his ability to communicate in clear, simple phrases. both of our panel who watched him work on speeches, he would work them over and over again on his yellow pad, not just the words, but his thoughts, holding them down so every word had meeting

-- statements out of washington that some washington people in the government were convinced nikita khrushchev was sincere in his desire for peace, and he said that the system board and so wrong. he said, he is a common test. -- communist. he is a meet their ellis. he will therefore do what ever is necessary to achieve his ends. sincerity has nothing to do with it. i recall talking to -- >> you see a man who understands that you need to do a deal to initiate, but you need to negotiate from strength. it is time to negotiate because of those early years of the reagan presidency, the united states had come back in its list three straight and fighting spirit. the soviet had declined because of economic problems, the time was right to do a deal. this is his sense of the shifting political forces and what we ought to do with them. you saw here a second point, his ability to communicate in clear, simple phrases. both of our panel who watched him work on speeches, he would work them over and over again on his yellow pad, not just the words, but his thoughts, holding them down so every word had meeting