with this and he was used to driving these curvy roads, so here nixon is in the passenger side, brezhnev behind the wheel they go behind the hill around the curve brezhnev hits 50 miles per hour in the lincoln continental and you can see nixon as the story goes sitting over there like slow down, slow down and brezhnev slams on the brakes around the curve, they come to a. with richard nixon and says where you find that automobile it holds around really well so i think the short-lived tradition of american presidents getting automobiles ended with that in camp david but that's a wonderful story of brezhnev and the continental. >> tell us about your first visit there president bush did not just use this for diplomatic visits he used it for weekend visits and more recreational getting away from the white house.>> i was a regular visitor during the last three years in the administration when i was chief of staff as my predecessor and his wife were but it was not common for people other than the chief of staff and national security advisor and so on but the president and mrs. bush took the tro

brezhnev liked cars. he told nixon to get in the passenger seat. nixon was used to driving curvy roads around camp david in a golf cart. nixon in the passenger side, brezhnev is behind the wheel. they go down hill and around the curve. he hits 50 miles an hour in the lincoln continental. you can see the richard nixon sitting over there, saying "slow down." he slammed the brakes around the curve. they come to a stop, and he says, "fine automobile. it holds the ground well." he likes that. the custom of american presidents giving automobiles ended with that campaign. that's a wonderful story of president brezhnev and the lincoln continental. holly: josh, tell us about your first visit. president bush did not just use it for diplomatic visits. he used it to host the staff for weekend visits. and for more recreational getting away from the white house. joshua: i was a regular visitor during the last three years of the administration, when i was chief of staff as my predecessor and his wife were in the preceding five years. it wasn't common for people o

that's a wonderful story of president brezhnev and the lincoln continental. holly: josh tell us about your first visit. he used it to host the staff for weekend visits. and for more recreational getting away from the white house. visitori was a regular during the last three years of the administration, when i was chief of staff as my predecessor and his wife had in the preceding five years. for peopleommon other than the chief of staff and national security advisor's, but the president and mrs. bush took the trouble to work their way through most of the senior staff of the west wing and give them an opportunity to bring and come to -- to come to camp david with their spouse because the ego's that they always -- ethos there was spread was that service and government and administration is a family affair. everybody is serving. important, not just a part, but a way of building a community that the reverend was talking about earlier. building that kind of community around the white house and the rest of the administration. there were two assistance to the preside

i figured brezhnev and then you have -- what if his name was, the guy in the '80s, and then you had the same more or less generation. poroshenko was livid at the tail end of the, tanf of late, late baby boomers but they were all from people who were born essentially born and raised in the soviet world. zelenskiy was 50 years old -- no, he was younger. now i'm in a spot, sorry. he was a teen, maybe even younger. so he was not raised in the soviet system. he was raised and oppose soviet system which is not radically different but his formative years were already in a kind of free, freewheeling dysfunctional but a very different world than the provincial soviet ukraine characterized by just -- [inaudible] also the first one doesn't come out of that host soviet industrial economic -- or political elite but that's the same thing. i soviet nuclear missile factory boss. zelenskiy is from that same area but he was not a factory manager, and to get to yanukovych. seen as a modern man but it's also pretty much a political figure ahead of the central bank all the way through poroshenko who by the