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next and the presidency a look at what motivated president richard nixon and leonid brezhnev during the. known as detente. the university of virginia's has a conference looking at the complicated history between u.s. and russian leaders over the last century. the discussions include an assessment of franklin dave roosevelt, jfk, george eight the h w bush and bill clinton as well as their russian counterparts. it's about an hour. barbara: this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit past 1:00 during i just met vlad last evening over dinner. after dinner, we had a fascinating, discussion about khrushchev and kennedy. but it was different ones, mrs. jacqueline kennedy and mrs. khrushchev. we may leave that for later discussion, but i enjoyed that conversation. vlad is a professor of international history at the london school of economics. he is an expert of the cold war and soviet russian history, particularly intellectual history. among his books particularly related to this topic, the failed empire and the cold war. from stalin to gorbachev. i noted among his books z

president richard nixon and soviet premier lee annoyed ration of during the premierwn as -- soviet leonid brezhnev. this is about one hour. barbara: this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit past 1:00 during i just met glad last ad last evening over dinner. after dinner, we had a fascinating, decision about khrushchev and kennedy. but it was different ones, mrs. jacqueline kennedy and mrs. khrushchev. we may leave that for later discussion, but i enjoyed that conversation. vlad is a professor of international history at the london school of economics. he is an expert of the cold war and soviet russian history, particularly intellectual history. among his books particularly related to this topic, the failed empire and the cold war. i noted among his books zhivago's children. having just watched the movie yet again, "dr. zhivago," i was drawn to that topic. jeremy surrey is a longtime friend of the miller center. we are always happy to welcome him back as we did recently for an american for him on his latest book, "the impossible presidency," which in light of the incumbent i

> next on the presidency, a look at what motivated president richard nixon and soviet premier leonid brezhnev during the period known as dtente. the discussions included assessments of franklin d. roosevelt, jfk, george h.w. bush and bill clinton, as well as their russian counterparts. this is about an hour. >>> this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit past 1:00. i have just met vlad zubok last evening over dinner and after dinner in which we had a fascinating conversation about khrushchev and kennedy. but two slightly different khrushchevs and kennedys about whom we've been speaking and it was mrs. jacqueline kennedy and mrs. khrushchev. we might save that for a later discussion. but i really enjoyed that conversation. vlad is a professor of international historio london school of economics. he's an expert on the cold war, and soviet russian history, and particularly intellectual history. among his books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the korld war from stalin to gorbachev. and i also noted among his boo

> next on the presidency, a look at what motivated president richard nixon and soviet premier leonid brezhnev during the period known as dtente. the discussions included assessments of franklin d. roosevelt, jfk, george h.w. b

> next on the presidency, a look at what motivated president richard nixon and soviet premier leonid brezhnev during the period known as dtente. the discussions included assessments of franklin d. roosevelt, jfk, george h.w. bush and bill clinton, as well as their russian counterparts. this is about an hour. >>> this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit

next and the presidency a look at what motivated president richard nixon and leonid brezhnev during the. known as detente. the university of virginia's has a conference looking at the complicated history between u.s. and russian leaders over the last century. the discussions include an assessment of franklin dave roosevelt, jfk, george eight the h w bush and bill clinton as well as their russian counterparts. it's about an hour. barbara: this is our second half of this panel. we will go to a little bit past 1:00 during i just met vlad last

> next on the presidency, a look at what motivated president richard nixon and soviet premier leonid brezhnev during a period known as detente. the miller center held a conference looking at complicated history of the u.s. and russian leaders.