and to premier khrushchev was obvious, it was the rocket thrust. it was the symbol of soviet power and his version of soviet growth. vice president nixon, after some heming and hawing, defined color television as his indicator. now, when i speak to young people i remind them that in those days, this debate happened the year i was born, it was in a long, long period ago -- in those days color television would be like talking about the ipad today. it wasn't that nixon was in a fog somewhere. he was actually talking about something quite important. but the real answer to why khrushchev was wrong and frankly why nixon got it wrong in his debate a year later with senator kennedy was that economies that have better innovation and growth wind up with both color television and rocket thrust. so growth is the answer. now, the book is not a doomsday book. i know it is very fashionable and every time i have lunch with pete peterson i'm reminded of this fashion to have a root and branch discussion. and there's a little bit of c cal -- calvinism. and pointing t

he had his pay any price, bear any burden, that was to show khrushchev he wouldn't be pushed around. that was the fist and then most of the rest of the speech was the olive branch. so that's another change he made. the other ones are getting rid of repetitive words and kennedy just didn't say them. >> what -- what is the input from sorensen and kennedy's why england slept and the profiles of courage? >> there was nothing in why england slept because they didn't know each other until 1953 i think is when sorensen came to work for kennedy. the profiles in courage was a very contentious issue about how much sorensen had done. because there were allegations made after kennedy won the pulitzer prize made by drew peerson in his column, he was a political columnist that sorensen had ghosted the entire book. this was repeated on abc and kennedy went in with harper and roe, with his publisher and with clark clifford who was then his attorney and they went in to abc and showed them kennedy's handwriten notes. now, this was enough to convince them that kennedy had had at least some input into t

president john kennedy and soviet leader nikita khrushchev in response to the american deployment of ballistic missiles in turkey targeted mages soviet cities the soviet union retaliated the stationing their own missiles in cuba about time the world found itself one step away from the stance of global nuclear war. the way of life in this small village never changes that's why the appearance of any newcomer in its outskirts is a big event. when the first soviet specialists came to the village in august one thousand nine hundred sixty two the locals were told to keep their mouths shut. a launch plot of land in the village outskirts was fenced off with barbed wire what went on inside that enclosure was kept secret for a long time. today and old bunker is in ruins the residents have found a use for everything they could take from those ruins. here for example you see all these places all they. are now in grown were set up all. be not even came here now you can see this now you can game and look at this so we are in a place where part of the wall was at the border. of that there was. his

and khrushchev does not say anything says quietly, how could you produce so much grain? we all work hard never quite enough to feed everybody how can you claim there is too much grain? that was the official slogan. why not feed? this is mao's command five meals per day. on the other hand, the villagers have already seen the so much of their labor of their homes and tools confiscated by the party, they see the opportunity to get back what is their own because these public dormitories and kindergartens were set up with their furniture, there bricks so the food is their labor so what do they do? they eat and feast and try to eat as much as they can to get something back with the full knowledge what day it will all be gone. >> host: there is a parallel story that you tell of the state's own appetite some for industrial machinery and four other things that china is purchasing internationally and paying for in the grain. can you talk about china's trade at this moment? >> 1958, china bias so much equipment, and tire factory is -- factories when the bills come and in december,

military giants such as president eisenhower but artie's a military contributor you have going to khrushchev says that eradicating drug trafficking hubs in afghanistan rather than a promotion should be the main priority for general petraeus. on the fourth of july general petraeus was assumed the demotion in duty and to the command of you ass and major forces in afghanistan as the four star general of the fifth star to general petraeus would also promote the image status and legitimacy of foes in afghanistan and pakistan visalia and their pakistani and afghan associates now the third venue to take would be to ask general petroski what he thinks about this type of recommit day sions to give him a deceased star i bet my bottom dollar that this is not on top priority least because for general petraeus the number one priority should be and i hope it will be this year is to zero in on their real challenge him on declared war off on him against them and again people and its neighbors that is the real challenge in undeclared war that the u.s. congress has yet to officially endorse before considering

taste of what's there right now a story about corn based friendship between soviet leader nikita khrushchev and an american farmer has been staged in the u.s. state of iowa where fifty years ago a remarkable meeting took place. and how to become famous help people and even earn money without leaving your house has the answer you know also check out our twitter and facebook pages. protest our rippling throughout egypt where deadly clashes with police have claimed five lives on the third day of violence the turmoil is inspired by the months long chaos in tunisia where uprisings the pose the country's leader left a data lead to a cabinet reshuffle as i ask you found out the images of angry protesters gathering in the streets are bringing color bells. georgio to three. zero four. zero zero zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero these old. only because you want to see. if you look more closely. you look at the people who are leading those are being coached in the they're being coached by u.s. intelligence services the same way the orange revolution was in ukraine or the roles revolution was saakash

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that afghanistan in 1959 and 60 as dwight eisenhower said existed quote sufferance with nikita khrushchev. this would've been a problematical theater to invest troops, but the soviet union is gone. the united states has made a great difference in the way it is anything around the world. and it could well be that we make, may make a difference here. i think it's going well. i think it could be sustained a long time. i think the afghans are not going to give us satisfaction of saying that we have converted them to your point of view, and in particular they will never give us that satisfaction. karzai has made that clear but i think the intervention will, over time, prove to make the world safer. [applause] >> david and julie, in my four years with jack at the white house, i did a lot of funerals. the very first year i was asked to do was president dwight david i -- dwight david eisenhower, and is one of those moments i will never forget. struck ron, thank you. [applause] >> that's exactly where this begins. that was my 21st birthday, march 31, 1968. >> nine start 1969. i was 21 on that day.

and one of the things he discovered early on was a possible exception of nikita khrushchev, no soviet had ever told a saudi complex know, you can't have all you want. they basically rubberstamped whatever the military investor complex asked for. and what was left over went to the people. windows people came into his office, his response was are you planning to attack the united states, comrade? because if you aren't, get out of my office. we don't need that stuff. and nevertheless when he came to reykjavÍk, he had been given a limit to his negotiating to a limited nuclear weapons, and that was president reagan had to give up sdi. well, i mean that's mohamed and a mountain out of a. but in the background he made such a perfect villain in a way was richard perle. at a crucial on the last day of the negotiations, president reagan said, well, maybe we should take this deal. but george shultz said mr. president, we can work it out at geneva down the road. this is the best deal i've seen in 25 years of negotiating with the soviets. take the deal. and as the president told his adviser around

hierarchy and one of the things he discovered early on was with the possible exception of nikita khrushchevmier had told the military-industrial complex know now you can have all you want. they basically rubberstamped whatever the military-industrial complex asked for and what was left over when to these people as it were. when those people came into his office his response was are you planning to attack the united states comrades because if you aren't get out of my office. nevertheless, when he came to reykjavÍk he had been given a limit to his negotiating toward eliminating nuclear weapons and that was president reagan had to give up sti. that is mohammad and the mountain i'm afraid but in the background he made such a perfect villain in the play was richard perle. at a crucial moment on the last day of the negotiations, president reagan said well, maybe we should take this deal and george shultz said mr. president, we can work it out in geneva down the road. this is the best deal i have seen in 25 years of negotiating with the soviets. take the deal. as the president pulls his advisers a

this book in particular i would say that i am a much more keen on amity and her ideas and nikita khrushchev. that is the choice before us. but as a journalist i am supposed to prized conflict. i'm going to spend more of my time talking about the things that i disagree with. let me start with the areas of agreement. at think one of the really interesting things about this book is the way that it starts with perception. in many areas. touch with perceptions and insights that are more frequently associated with folks making meat into a free-market more interventionist arguments about economic policy and then move from them to pretty conservative conclusions. a tank that is true of the discussion about china, the discussion about manufacturing, and the one place where i think that this book makes a real, at least, rhetorical break from a lot of central right commentary and economics is that there is a really sound up understanding that our schools should not be to simply restore the economic status quo before the financial crisis. there is an understanding that the economy was not in good healt

[laughter and applause] >> soviet premier khrushchev -- just a few years before. wars of liberation they were called, were being waged around the globe in vietnam, the condo and cuba just 90 miles from our shore. at home the young preacher's cause was gaining traction across a segregated land. in this volatile america, president kennedy lead with the steadying hand, refusing the most perilous crisis of the cold war without firing a shot. enforcing the rights of young black men and women to attend the university of their choice. launching a corps of volunteers and ambassadors for peace in distant centers of the globe. setting of america's sites on the moon. unwilling to lose the space race in the wake of sputnik. we know the moonshot story. it is a familiar 1 often invoked to make the case for an ambitious idea but it is easy to lose sight of just how improbable it seemed in may of 1961. when president kennedy proposed going to the moon america had just 15 minutes of manned flight experience in space. nasa had neither a plan nor a shuttle for making a lunar voyage.

if you go back on the issue of the military, think of the discord between khrushchev of and kennedy,the kinds of arguments that took place, we have troops in the largest military operations in korea involving our two countries. in the 80s and nineties we were constantly talking about trade disputes and conflicts. now is down to a couple things. a tiny fraction of overall trade. when obama came in we were excited because he was going to renegotiate nafta at. the relationship within jeopardy. that didn't prove to be the case. you have a relationship that is working well. the neuroses of canadians have much diminished over the years and that is a contributing factor. we are not as defensive as we used to be. that is a good thing. that is progress. that is contributing to further progress in the future. >> let's go to our panelists now and get their opening comments. >> i agree with lisa who gave our introduction. in terms of our relationship, i want to say that this week, president hu is visiting washington and the crawl on the bottom of the screens in many newscasts is a long lines of

through the decades, you know, on the issue of the military, flexible, think of the discourse between khrushchevnd kennedy, between pearson and johnson, the kind of argument that took place over the vietnam war and now as you mentioned we have troops side-by-side in the largest military option since korea involving a two countries. on the trade front, the 80's and the 90's we were constantly talking about to treat and now it's down to a couple of minor things. a small, tiny fraction of the overl trade when obama came in we were all ing to be very ecited because he was going to renegotiate nafta and the relationship was in jeopardy. that didn't prove to the case. i think what you have is a relationship that's working well. the neuroses of canadians have much diminished over the years, and i think it's become to be infected. we are not as defensive of the americans as we used to be. that's a good thing. it's progress, that's ntbungor t pntl fothegsin thutu. tnkou for that. let's go to our panelists now and get their opening comments. baador d, let start withou >> i agr with iz who gv ouintroctn in