anyway, john cleese, thanks so much. >> pleasure.lking to you. >> woodruff: finally tonight, our newshour shares moment of the day. something that caught our eye that might be of interest to you too. today marks the 60th anniversary of the first televised presidential news conference. and we wanted to show you what president dwight eisenhower's exchange with the press in 1955 looked like. turns out tensions in china and fights over the budget were making headlines then, too. here's a short excerpt: >> i see we're trying a new experiment this morning. i hope that doesn't prove to be a disturbing influence. the latest fighting, it would be useful to have a cease fire with china. if that could be arrange with the u.n. or some other means. >> i should like to see the u.n. attempt to exercise good decisions because whenever there's any kind of fighting and open violence in the world there is always -- it's always sort of a powder keg. >> it's my understanding that's what the committees of congress is for and that's is what the people who