chris: and khrushchev's memoirs as we now know, if he hit new york, was going to hit new york. >> when you are president of the united states and you don't fully trust your advisers, you trust someone who sat in that chair before you more than anybody else. chris: howard, i want to play this soundbite frr lyndon johnson, how ike helped him after jack kennedy was assassinated. >> eisenhower came down and spent some time with me exploring the problems that he expected to arise con fronting a new president. chris: kennedy getting killed was an incredible moment and here was the republican coming in and helping l.b.j. >> two things about that. first of all, ike as a figure, was a tremendously reassuring president in american life. if there was a monarch, retired monarch, it was ike, who had led us into world war ii and president during a calm period in american life. there was the psychological's assurance from that. but more important and interesting is the advice that ike gave to lyndon johnson about what l.b.j. should say before a joint session of congress. ike was a republican presiden

the first year he struggled with foreign policy issues with the berlin crisis a summer meeting in khrushchev that did not go well. he admitted. he learned to be more calculating, think before he spoke, a tendency to use rhetoric that is the most inflammatory come led talk about the need to build a fallout shelter. it raised levels of fear that a nuclear war might occur but with the cuban missile crisis, he is much more restrained. he tried to keep their rhetoric cooler. >>host: professor what is the new frontier? >> he wanted to have a different. [cheers and applause] this a campaign promise. a new direction. he believed the policies of the fifties had grown stale and the country had not been enough to show its greatness. the fifties had steady growth but he thought the u.s. should do more in science. thinking of the state's program, he had it as is goal to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade and put to a lot of resources into that. but hope for the future. to challenge the country to have hope. >>host: what do teach your? >> par merely u.s. military and diplomatic history. 20th c

foreign policy issues, in particular like with the berlin crisis that summer, his summit meeting with khrushchev in vienna that did not go well which he admitted to. but he grew. he learned. he learned to be more calculated, too, i would say, think more before he spoke. he had a tendency to use rhetoric that was almost inflammatory. to go back to early in his campaign, his presidency in 1961 when the berlin crisis was going on he talked about the need to build fallout shelters. that caused a real stir, and not a panic in the country, but it raised the levels of fear both in the united states and the soviet union that maybe this particular war might occur. were as limited to the cuban missile crisis, he's much more trained in how he handled the crisis. obviously, a lot of it was done behind the scenes, but he tried to keep the rhetoric cooler and try to work through it with a diplomatic solution. >> professor snead, what's the new frontier part of this? >> the new frontier, he wanted to have a new frontier. that was his campaign promise. basically a new direction for the country. he believed the

khrushchev's problem was people in eastern europe were bullying at the rate of 2008 people who fled with the young people and educated people are doctors, lawyers could not continue to allow that to happen. kennedy's problem was that almost all of germany was occupied by soviet troops. they had much more military power than we did and our only option if we had decided in 1962 to fight for berlin, which means germany, which means europe college by using atomic weapons and he was determined not to use atomic weapons. so what was the real thing. >> you might jump back to 48 and 49. >> started too for that matter. >> stalin is so interesting and the most interesting thing about him is the life of the men who know no one would tell the truth to so that stalin personally ordered the berlin air lift was totally incomplete intelligence and knowledge of what it could lead to. he thought because there were so few people from the western countries in berlin, i want to add in a print fees, the russians considered berlin a slavic city that it was theirs by right of history. we didn't even bother with

returns the khrushchev was ready for marion to act.his is the scary part of any kind of chain reaction of the what consequences has to be considered here. how do you attack deflate any missiles left, even a couple big ones. he was talking like a little kid. talking of intermediate-range missiles i was going to hit new york. i might have killed everybody, but i would've killed millions of people on it would've taught america what it's like to fight a war in a software tory. derek and his crew chef not thinking of consequences because had he done that we would've gone for the full straight. so what kennedy was looking at was a couple things. first of all, i don't want them to stray can use their missiles on us, but then we have to retrain the attack. but he also wanted to do with it in a way undercover. so he did two things. he set up a blockade to limit the immediate threat of action. called the quarantine so it was only about the missiles in the material it into the missiles. but many of the secret deal. bobby went to see the soviet am

. >> stephen: jesus h khrushchev.hose of you too young to remember communism let me outline the dangers. sick wasted women, standing in line for a single turn i and a weird backwards r. that's why i have never trusted toys r us. and american-- yes, yes. (applause) >> stephen: yes. yes. i applaud when i'm suspicious too. and american toy company would be called toys-- me. and allen west comey count is backed up with hard research in that he's heard it. and if you hear something, it is true. which is why we must end the rampant explosion by outlawing pop rocks and coke. think of the children. the exploding children. nation, we have to root out these congressman before all of congress is recruited. and they might just do it to improve their public image. because right now congress has an approval rating of 9%. which according to rasmussen is actually lower than the public's opinion of a communist takeover of the united states. my only problem with congressman west here is that he said he won't name names. which means we

eighty five a wind of change was in the end of the strike it was a mouse in the country like nikita khrushchev. but the people he took with him now frank and straightforward manner he was far more find and civilized. gets closer to the people close enough. often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other service leaders. was active in the nation's public life in soviet times many people resented the habit they blame the country's first lady for swaying decisions. racegoer died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred ninety before passing away she said that forming victims of the severe illness and dying would be the only way to get people to understand how this time crammed in medicine was hopeless. i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife you know that's what is lacking in my life i always remember that. boris yeltsin president of russia one thousand nine hundred one nineteen ninety nine suffered from heart disease eight years after his resignation he died of progressive cardiovascular and multiple organ

which neither country could pull off a first strike and you got stability which lasted except for khrushchev who was the exemplar of the soviet adventure who almost would have done nuclear war in the cuba missile crisis. once this sunk in, you had brezhnev who did not want nuclear war. he was the status quo type, he wanted to enjoy the perks of power, the mistresses, the collection of foreign cars, including a lincoln nixon gave him. they were opponents, but they were not into destroying their own country to destroy ours. so these men saved us from the probability of a nuclear war. and they are genuine american heroes and he personified it. >> go back. this is in 1955 when all the discussions became very active up to this day, i got on the internet today and you can correct me if my figures are wrong, but there's at least 5,500 intercontinental ballistic missiles active today, with the navy and the army, am i right about that? >> that's probably too high for icbms but in terms of missiles, yes. you have the navy which are icbms out of the nuclear submarine and 450 minute men which are interc

nikita khrushchev and john f. kennedy. we're not speaking to each other opponents of direct talks with iran argue why the u.s. should do it before iran lift its own ban on negotiating with the us are the iranians ready for direct talks i don't see the iranians lifting their ban before the u.s. does that's because the iranians are in a much weaker position than the united states and so it does take more capital for them to agree to such steps opinion polls show the majority of americans seven out of ten say yes to diplomacy with iran but is that a message their representatives want to hear the voices of. arms merchants. of war contractors. but people who just make money off a war don't care where the war is or who would urge or just want to make money and if they can push the us and spawning another war they'll do it and members of congress have to be wise as to when they're being played by interest groups who may want them to vote in one way but it would be a way that would be adverse to the interests of the american peopl

nixon had just debated with khrushchev and i debated with hubert humphrey and that gave me an edge.n: how close did he come to beating jfk? >> guest: well, the primary -- i think he probably lost by 10% in the primary and the west virginia wisconsin primary. but he didn't really have a chance. but that is another whole story. kennedy's campaign was pretty low finance and didn't have a lot of money and he was really kind of -- of the sort of got out i would have to say. her stories of people handed 5-dollar bill; for things that went on during the campaign that didn't have much of a chance. he was expected to win in the state and its leader michael best las vegas expect to win because it isn't so much that he went after the non-catholic but it was largely across the state and think you'd be able to win there. and you know, it is interesting because they think if he would've won the primary, it would've had a challenge for linda john and also wanted to run. c-span: and the end, where did you get your financing? >> guest: all kinds of places. hamlin university in st. paul gave me seed

khrushchev! for those of you too young to remember communism, let me outline the dangers.hick-waisted women, and a weird backwards r. that's why i have never trusted toys r us. my only problem with congressman west here is that he said he won't name names. which means we will just have though speculate, and i will start. john boehner. hear me out. he may not be a democrat, but he sure looks red. or at least burnt sienna. keep an eye on this guy. >> hey, guys. >> oh, boy. >> good morning. >> fantastic. >> good morning. >> beautiful day. >> good morning. >> it's friday. >> it's a good morning. >> it's friday the 13th. did you know that? yeah. welcome to "morning joe." >> i need to cancel that flight. >> thank god it's friday at least. >> i'm getting on a plane right after the show. >> cancel that flight. >>> with us onset, and i'm not sure why -- >> yeah, i know. >> donny deutsch is here. chairman of the board. also, chief financer of "morning joe." and editorial writer for "the washington post" and contributor jonathan capehart. and from the nation's capital -- >> oh, thank