khrushchev came to the united states and nikita khrushchev was my father and i am sergei khrushchev, and they did many interesting things there. .. >> why did you write this book? the 50 years ago leader of one country from a united states had grids are maybe thousands of liters came here. but sometimes you saide is eccentric bud the president yeltsin was more ecctric. when khrushchev ce here, he just showed the time like his contemporary politicians here raer go to the commodore show rather than of the cnn show. maybe it is part of my fath's behavr may be because it was back through the old woman is not eliminated but it was changed. why did you write this book? >> guest: write the book because i happen to stumble upon the story of your father, ed khrushchev trip to the united states which is now 50 years ago but when i stumbled upon it was only 30 or 35 years old are i was a writer at the time of "people" magazine. i was a rewrite man. i had to rewrite things on mondays and tuesdays and wednesdays but thursdays and fridays i did not have much to do. i would amuse myself by reading

khrushchev came to the united states and nikita khrushchev was my father and ibm sergei khrushchev. it was a political discussion it was very serious talk but also many funny things. andeter found all of the anything sple them togethe in this book showing how you can show the political person in a contemporary way. and then i was trying to think in that time what i felt and i was with my father on this tr. for us, it was like christopher columbus' discovery of america and we discovered america for ourself. we knew manhaan a america is very different. we knew something from mark twain of the 19th century america. it was a new world and we tried to find out what it looks like. very interesting. that it is just the detail of this book. but from the oer side, my first question is why did you write this book? 50 years ago, a visit from one little country to the united states may be other leaders came here. sometimes they were eccentric. president yeltsin was more eccentric. wind khrushchev came here, he just showed the time li a contemporary politician would rather go to but larry chiao

peter carlson recounts that trip with khrushchev's son, sergei on after words. next a portion about tv's monthly three-hour live program, in depth. on the first sunday of each month we invite one author to discuss their entire body of work and take their calls. in depth also includes a visit with the author to see where and how they write their books. that is what you are about to see. >> a typical day for me begins with mass at my parish church, breakfast here at home, and then i spend the morning here. this is my bunker. this is where i study. this is where most of my working materials are in my library. my files, etc. i work from outlines. i think when you are doing complicated things like the biography of john paul the second or trying to make a a serious argument on the public policy matter it is good to a think through the sequence of things before you actually start writing. and then the writing becomes the telling of the story within that outlined. i think that gives it some liveliness and some freshss. so it all happens right here around this test. i do

the key to khrushchev in 1956 said we will bury you and that was said by a man whose finger rested on a nuclear button. this was regardless how horrible those 1911 attacks were their best shot was to fly a couple into a couple buildings. nikita khrushchev, i'm sure we would have destroyed him, too, but this it could have been armageddon. the problem is explaining policy after the end of the cold war when this threat -- cuba was 90 miles away. take off from miami national airport and go into the wind tore the east, turn right and there's cuba and five minutes you see cuba. it's one thing to have a missile fired at you from the peninsula over of japan. it is another thing to have it fired at you from cuba. they could destroy our strategic bombers before they could get their injun started. and it would -- it was a legitimate worry. after the end of the cold war, my sense is what happened -- we are talking about 1990, 1991 -- as the defense interest walked out the door of the cuba policy they just left. george h. w. bush, first president bush, named as assistant secretary of defense for l

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he was a reporter for "the washington post" for many years and he tells the story of nikita khrushchev's visit. when he came here at the time the cold war was at its peak and he was the quintessential russian. when he went out to iowa and looked at the corn and disneyland. the author tells the story with enormous great humor and it's full of history. the second book i'm going to read is chris buckley's mum and pup. i think all of us who read some of this, it has a now famous line to his mother on his death bed and he looked at her as she was about to take her last breath, he said i forgive you. but when i read the excerpts of the book in the "new york times" magazine i realized how truly revealing it is about the way in which families of a certain kind live together and how you come to terms with the fact that these extraordinary people that you grew up with have reached the end of the line. it sounds like something really worth reading. so i will. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. if that >> a former self-described anarch

peter carlson discusses his book with sergei khrushchev, the son of nikita khrushchev and a senior fellow at the watson institute for international studies at browne university. >> host: hello, now we will discuss the book of peter carlson, it was a "washington post" reporter for 22 years and the author of this very interesting book, "k blows top." and, i will interview him. even before en he wrote this book, he interviewed me, so this book is some way @bout me and now i will ask him. i found that his book is v

about ten years later, when khrushchev took over in russia, and he very soon propose a very sharp mutualeduction in offensive military weaponry. he understood very well that the much weaker soviet economy couldn't possibly sustain an arms race with the united states and still hope to develop. well, when the u.s. dismissed the author, as it did, he carried out the reduction unilaterally and kennedy did react to that. he reacted with a very sharp increase in military spending, which the russian military later tried to match, and that is taking the economy as khrushchev had anticipated. actually that was the crucial moment of the soviet collapse, and the economy stagnated since then. whatever one thinks of the defensive pretext for nato, at least it had some credibility, but what happens when the soviet union is gone in a pretext disappears? well, it got more extreme. gorbachev made an astonishing concession. he permitted a unified germany to join a hostile military alliance run by the global superpower. that is astonishing. in light of history, germany alone had practically destroyed were

peter was a reporter for "the washington post" for many, many years and he tells the story of khrushchev'sisit and he went out to iowa and looked at the cornstalks and he went to hollywood and went to disney. it captured that moment in american history and told the story with what i gather is enormous great good humor and it's also history of a very, very treatment in kind. so that's the first book i'll read. thank you. the second book i'm going to read is chris buckley's mum and pop. all of us who follow this kind of thing have heard a little bit of the book or seen one way or the other what has a famous -- now famous line is what he said to his mother on her death bed. he looked at her as she was about to take her death breath and she said i forgive you. what i'm hoping my grandchildren don't say that to me when my time comes. when i read the excerpts of the book in the "new york times" magazine i realized how truly revealing it is about the way in which families of a certain kind live together and how you come to terms with the fact that these extraordinary people that you grew up with

. >> in 1959, in the heat of the cold war, soviet premier nikita khrushchev took an unprecedented two week two our o the u.s peter carlson recounts that trip with khrhchev's son, sergei on after words, part of c-span2's booktv weekend. >> douglas dav appeared on booknotes in 1993o discuss his book, "the five myths of television power" or why the medium is not the message, publishedy simon & schuster. he explained his exploration into the attitudes preserving the five commonly held assumptions about americand television this is an hour. c-an: douglas davis, can you name the five myths of televisi power? >> guest: of course, the major myth is the one we all talk about, and that is that tv dominates our political decision-making. the second myth,hich is one i suppose that anizes ople the most, and that is that tv is reducing our kids,ur students, the third myth, which is a little more complicated and more fun, is, we often hear that we, the public, prefer this made-up reality that network television has been giving us for some years, to the real reality, which i believe is totally false,

on 28 october, nikita khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles if the united states promised not to invadesecretly kennedy promised to withdraw jupiter missiles from turkey. >> mcnamara came out of the cuban missile crisis emboldened, he was write the chiefs were wrong, what he didn't recognize the deal to trade u.s. missiles for turkey and cuba was what was decisive. >> he began applying increase in force to another looming crisis, vietnam. a little over two months after the missile crisis, three american advisors were killed at the battle, 30 miles south of saigon. in february 1963, 40-year-old advisor robert net from new haven connecticut arrived in vietnam. net, a world war ii medal of honor recipient had served in korea. by the end of 1963, nearly 16,000 advisors like net were serving in south vietnam. how much combat were they seeing at that point? >> i would say three, four months a year. >> oliver: and they're up against what, viet cong or nva? >> both. i felt that they were well prepared because they had our equipment. and they were being trained by us. tan they were getting a tas

they would give e soviet premier thopportunity to withdraw acefully, but no one knew what khrushchev would do the nation braced r the possibility of nucar war. remember there being a diussion at home with my father about whher or not we should moved. there waa bunker under camp david where there was ro for us, but there re two considerations that i remember my fher articulating at at time. onwas that we shouldn't be moved cause it would cause her people to panic if we were moved t of washington, uh, and the other one was at, if there were a nucleawar, none of us would wt to be around afterwardanyway. narrator: in the end both sides pulled ck from confrontation khrushchev agree to withdraw the missiles inxchange for kennedy's public pledge not to invade ba and his private prise to remove americ missiles from turkish bases ar the soviet border. e gravest crisis of t cold war was over. kennedy had shown a end of toughness and plomatic skill scarcely imaginable when he first took offic buhe also recognized how close the world had come to disaer, how large a pa luck had played in its sviv

. >> in 1959, soviet premier nikita khrushchev to the two week tour of the u.s.. peter carlson recount that trip with his son on afterwards, part of book tv weekend. >> the publisher and editor of the nation magazine and frequent contributor to ms nbc, cnn and pbs participate in a discussion on a downturn in the financial system based on the nation's coverage of economic events for 20 years. and the author of nickel and dime, and christopher hayes, washington editor for the nation magazine. the event, hosted by the new york society for ethical culture center in new york city, is 1 hour and a half. [applause] >> good in

. >> in 1959 in the heat of the cold war, soviet premier nikita khrushchev took an unprecedented two week tour of the u.s.. peter carlson recounts that trip with his son, part of c-span2's book tv weekend. >> richard reyna examines the life of a prosecutor and crime scene investigator in los angeles in 1920s. the two men were invoed in several tryouts of the century, los angeles public library hosted this event, a litt more than an hour. >> we are ing to talk for a while anturn it over to you guys. we will talk about what it means for a long time. with thatn mind, nothing to do with l.a. first time we ever spoke a long time ago, we called it the british model. we wrote a couple of novels, mayb a little more piece together, your career is an exemplar of that style of approach. is that a grt to conceptualize the crisis? >> we definitely have the first of this, a little focus ambition. getting a little deep in the newspapers. my career really began, rock and roll, pop stars and movie stars, writing a book reviews.

when soviet premier nikita khrushchev visited a farm in coon rapids, iowa in 1959, don put one over onuck, their video truck, and drove it into the middle of a corn field, where no one could find it. now, that's not mr. nice guy, you know. he did return it, eventually. >> safer: but he clashed often with cbs news president fred friendly, who found him too brash, too unpredictable. in 1965, friendly figured out a way to get don off the evening news. don thought it was a promotion. >> scheffler: his wife told me later that he came home and said... told her the story about how friendly had come to see him and said, "you know, don, this evening news is not big enough for you. we're going to find really great projects for you to do." and his wife said to him, "idiot. you just got fired." >> hewitt: it was devastating at the time. you know, i was... i had my legs cut off. >> safer: he remained at cbs, but sought solace out on his beloved beach. next to television, he worshiped the sun and his kids. he produced a few earnest documentaries, but hungered after something with a little more punch

i remember how nervous we all were when the standoff when khrushchev sent those missiles to cuba, andhere were few really grim days. we thought we would all be blown away, nuclear bombs. it's just things that happen. i mean, i don't even think of these things as history. actually just things in our lives that, you know, a young person, person born 15 years ago, my grandchildren would think of these things i just mentioned as history. but i don't. things that happened. >> i wrote a story -- >> when my children were born, i loved that each time. that was great. is that history? in his life. >> i'm going to give you a copy, if prologue which is quarterly magazine you. i wrote up my experiences of an eight year old, the day he died, with the entire country we've been trying to puzzle through what was going on your and it's a close as i've ever come to writing something fictional. but it was back. >> great moments. >> clasclass. . apodaca wamp who won and history writing, i think the objective of ways. meek he nsa that the objective place is a fictional device. and a french critic said him

we recount that trip with serge i, the son of khrushchev. >> as the debate over health care continuesc-span healthcare hub is a key resource. you can watch the latest events including town hall meeting to ensure your thoughts on the issue. you can have your own citizen video, including the deal from any town halls to have gone to. there is even more on c- span.org/health care. "washington journal" continues. host: we continue our series on health care. we will introduce you to bruce vladeck who was the health care finance industry head -- that government agency is not known for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. he is joining us to discuss medicare part a b. how would you describe medicare part b? guest: it is the part that covers physician services and a broad range of other outpatient services. it is a voluntary program in principle. when people turn 65 they are certified for social security disability. you have a choice of whether to enroll. the overwhelming majority of those eligible do because it is such a good deal. it is financed, one-quarter of the costs are finan

he was a reporter for "the washington post" for many years and he tells the story of nikita khrushchev'svisit to the united states in 1959 i believe, when he came here in the time of the cold war was at its peak and he was the quintessential russian galumph. he came here in traveled the country and why not to i was an elected house of the corn stalks or and he went al to hollywood in went to disneyland and what he is caption in that moment of american history and told the story with what i gather is enormous great, good humor is also a history of a very good kinds of that is the first book i will read. thank you. the second book i'm going to read this chris ee-- buckley, mum and pup. all of us have heard a little bit about the book or seen one way or another what has it now famous line is what he said to his mother on a death bed. he looked at her as she was about to take her last breath and he said i forgive you. what i'm hoping is my grandchildren don't say that to me when the time comes but when i read the excerpts of the book in the near times magazine i realized how truly revealing

peter carlson recounts that trip with nikita khrushchev's son sergei, part of the booktv weekend.as washington and the nation focus on health care, sunday on c-span, we will talk about dealing with the h1n1 swine flu virus with dr. thomas friedan, head of the centers for disease control. we will also have a look inside the u.s. hospital system. on august 20, the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing of pan am 103 was released from its dutch prison. this weekend, once debate from the scottish parliament following the government's decision to release him to his home country of libya, sunday night on c-span. go inside the supreme court to see the public places and those rarely seen spaces, hear directly from the justices as they provide their insight about the court and the building. the supreme court, home to america's highest court. the first sunday and october, on c-span. as the debate over health care continues, cspan's health care hub is a key resource. go on line and follow all the information. watch the latest event, including town hall meetings and share your thoughts on the

this quote is from nikita khrushchev made back in the 1960's. the title of this comment was the road to communism. you americans are so gullible, you will not accept communism out right, but we keep feeding a small doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find out you are the have communism. we will weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit in your hands. the way i look at it we have a one-party rule. this country reminds me of russia, china, north korea, venezuela. the way our country is headed right now, we will be on that list. need i say more about that comment? the next comment, we may need to take better care of our troops. in case of war that are being called to serve. i think we are in war right now. some are on their third and fourth tour. i know the draft was stopped back in 19 -- 1990, somewhere in the near red. -- somewhere in that neighborhood. >> thank you for coming out tonight. thank you for your comments. i appreciate you all coming out tonight. this is a record turned out. except for this year, the highest

peter carlson recounted that trip with khrushchev son, sergei, on afterwards. >> a number of so-called troubled banks in the u.s. ros to 416 at the end of june despite the increased ahead of the agency in charge of saving banks today said depositors should worry about losing their money. sheila bair made that announcement at a federal deposit insurance corporation form and washington. this is about half an hour. >> this q&a will be reserved for members of media. after the chairman's presentation, at the fdic senior professional sta, ross waltrip andn willach makshort presentations and will then take questions on the data. please save your more technical questions. for the q&a we would ask you to please use the microphone before asking your question. i will now introduce chairman bair. >> thank you. welcome, everyone. we've all seen the good news that come out on the economy in the past few weeks. our challenges remain, evidence is building to the american economy is starting to grow again. but no matter how challenging the environment, the fdic has ample resources to continue protectin

this quote is from nikita khrushchev made back in the 1960's. the title of this comment was the road to communism. you americans are so gullible, you will not accept communism out right, but we keep feeding a small doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find out you are the have communism. we will weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit in your hands. the way i look at it we have a one-party rule. this country reminds me of russia, china, north korea, venezuela. the way our country is headed right now, we will be on that list. need i say more about that comment? the next comment, we may need to take better care of our troops. in case of war that are being called to serve. i think we are in war right now. some are on their third and fourth tour. i know the draft w the near red. -- somewhere in that neighborhood. >> thank you for coming out tonight. thank you for your comments. i appreciate you all coming out tonight. this is a record turned out. except for this year, the highest turn out i have had for a town hall meeting

this weekend on book tv -- >> in 1959 athe heat of the cold war, soviet premier nikita khrushchev tookd two week to or of the u.s.. peter carlson recount that. >> british prime minister gordon brown and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu take questions on the release of the pan am bomber, iran's nuclear capabilities and least peace process. this news conference followed a meeting, 20 minutes. >> let me welcome prim minister benjamin dan yahoo! it is a pleasure to work with you on all the issues, the future of the world. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is a man of courage and we have had good talks today. discussions as realistic as ever but more optimistic than before. i reiterated that we in the united kingdom will always remain a strong friend of israel and israelis and palestinians will always be able to count on r support for peace. we share a vision of a secure and confident israel, welcomed by its neighbor after decades of waiting, a secure and viable palestine in region at peace with itself. i strongly agree with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, we talk about this on

this quote is from nikita khrushchev made back in the 1960's. communism. you americans are so gullible, you will not accept communism out right, but we keep feeding a small doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find out you are the have communism. we will weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit in your hands. the way i look at it we have a one-party rule. this country reminds me of russia, china, north korea, venezuela. the way our country is headed right now, we will be on that list. need i say more about that comment? the next comment, we may need to take better care of our troops. in case of war that are being called to serve. i think we are in war right now. some are on their third and fourth tour. i know the draft was stopped back in 19 -- 1990, somewhere in the near red. -- somewhere in that neighborhood. >> thank you for coming out tonight. thank you for your comments. i appreciate you all coming out tonight. this is a record turned out. except for this year, the highest turn out i have had for a town hall meetin

in 1959, in the heat of the cold war, soviet premier nikita khrushchev took an unprecedented two-week tour of the u.s. peter carlson recounts that trip with his son, a surrogate -- sergei. our series on medicare continues with a look at medicare part c and how it might be affected by health care legislation. this is an hour-and-a-half. >> today is the third part in our series on medicare. we have looked at medicare part aand b. today, we will look at medicare part c. we have two gentlemen who have run the agency. host: what is medicare part c? guest: medicare part c is the part of the program that pays private insurance plans to provide benefits to medicare beneficiaries. it is mostly through hmo's but for other kinds of private insurance, as well it offers an alternative to what is referred to as traditional medicare instead of having the benefits provided directly for government contracts doors. the benefits are provided through private insurance companies. guest: it replaces conventional part a and b. host: what is the purpose of part see? guest: a senior has the option to say if t