ambassador bolin said you want to look after jukev. that was crazy because i had been a p.f.c. in the u.s. army and here i was responsible for dealing with a soviet marshal. he loved vodka. i fed him vodka and i drank water. after about eight vodkas and waters, khrushchev beckoned to both of us and jukov was tipsy and he said to khrushchev, i can finally found a young american who can drink like a russian! khrushchev loved that line. he looked at me and said, how tall are you? i said, i'm six cent meters shorter than peter the great. well, he loved the line. it brought the house down and, from that time, even when i came back later here for cbs, he always remembered me as peter the great, it was a great access. >> woodruff: you had access in a way no other american journalist had, but, marvin, what did you learn about them as a people? >> more than anything else is how similar they are to us. i remember once being on a train with a young bajani woman, probably 22, 23, and we were traveling together and she said, where are you from? she said, the united states. she said, i don't