americans at home saw in coverage of the exhibition through the many photographs of her taken by howard sochurek that ran in "life" magazine at the time. they later wed in 1965. i don't know if there's any connection between those two bits of information. george feifer was one of the original american guides at the moscow exhibition. he's the author of many successful books including with the the battle of okinawa," "moscow farewell." he has written for variety of publications including the new republic, "new york times," harper's and "the saturday evening post." he lives in connecticut. we are indeed very fortunate to have three eyewitnesses to this cold war history. ambassador robinson, why don't we start with you. please explain to our audience here and on c-span what these american exhibitions were and why our country put them together. >> well, you have to start with president eisenhower. he thought that we -- and i think it's a quote, that we were conspicuous by our absence from major exhibitions. so he started out with the trade fairs. we had trade fairs and -- that i participated in as m