he told khrushchev that he could say nothing about the deal. if anyone in the american media suspected the deal and as to whether there was a deal he would have to live. the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal and as kennedy and is the sense about that . given the gravity of this situation at the time it was imperative that he bring it to an end. he felt the only way he to do it was by telling a lie. >> host: did fdr like to get this into world war ii? >> guest: he lied to try to get us into world war two. there was unable and since involving the u.s. as a career which was unable -- a u.s. navy surface ship. it was involved in operation involving a british aircraft. roosevelt told a series of lies to the purpose of getting us into war were to. he was having great difficulty doing it. he told allied to try to get as in, but it did not work. it took pro harbor. >> host: went to war leaders get behind closed doors did they lie to each other? >> guest: the main reason is that there is not a great deal of trust to begin with.

and given the rhetoric coming out of the kremlin khrushchev was saying all sorts of things like we willbury you and those were literally his words. they seemed warren more willing to use them. i emphasize this to point out that the spectrum of the communist country 90 miles from american shores with simply tolerable, and not just to conservatives like barry goldwater or richard nixon but really to everybody. so, fidel castro was interrogated on the subject of communism everywhere he went on his visit. by vice president nixon, by congressional subcommittee, by scores of journalists, everyone asking the same question, dr. castro are you a communist? indians are the same every time. no, he was not a communist, never had been, never would be. in castro finally left new york on april 25, the police were relieved to see him go but most the new yorkers were happy that he came to visit. an editorial in "the new york times" summed up the general attitude towards castro as he left. quote, he made it quite clear that neither he nor anyone of importance in his government so far as he knew was a com

won the festival's grand prize in one thousand sixty three despite a legend havenot that nikita khrushchevfell asleep while watching the soviet festival was not give all of its scandals like the famous episode when juno or bridgette or and elizabeth taylor appeared part you wearing the same dresses for soviet russia so the festival rebranded the first prize changed to the golden soon george and the price for acting achievements called i believe constantin stanislavski been awarded to would see the most stars like meryl streep and jack nicholson the opportunity to see the latest films from around the world draws crowds to the festival venues the last moscow international film festival was attended by two hundred thousand people. the principle of selection of the films for the first of all today in any modern days having a changed use of calls. because in the soviet times. old the most important part of the first there was to see the commercial broadcasters from the united states and europe and india which people didn't see you know the real dogs shown in cinema the other fifty weeks tell us

announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops but aussies military contributing afghani khrushchev believes that america's legacy in afghanistan will be that of spreading narco terrorism. during his speech related to the u.s. forces record figuration in afghanistan president obama has never mentioned his conserve or demonstrated his understanding that when it comes to ghana stan the very real threat doesn't come from the or it's associate but it has everything to do we have narco terrorism the us legacy in afghanistan will be mostly measured by the effect that it was due to the us and nato occupation that evgeny a stand has been turned into narco states unfortunately jill carroll who is the us president drug advisor was not involved in formulating the new policy in afghanistan and it boils down to crunch approach counter-narcotics strategy for afghanistan and counterterrorism for pakistan and integrate both approaches in current threat hands if counter terrorism strategy. galleries on a website for an exclusive set of pictures from afghanistan it's not covering every aspect of life

previous works include two volumes on lyndon johnson's secret tapes, the crisis years, kennedy and khrushchev and kennedy and roosevelt the uneasy alliance. he is currently writing his trip american presidents during wartime. i'm sure many of you also know mr. beschloss from his television work. he served as nbc news presidential historian on the "pbs newshour" and in 2000 by the one and emmy for his role in creating the discovery channel's decisions that shook the world of which he was a host. and last but certainly not least as professor susan is professorn dunn another protÉge colleague and friend. she is depressed in pairs third century professor of arts and humanities. most recently she has written roosevelt purge how fdr far to change the democratic party published in 2010 by harvard university's l press. roosevelts purge has received a henry adams prize awarded by the society for history in the federal government and was a finalist with "the los angeles times" but prize in history. as mentioned earlier professor dunn is is the co-author of james macgregor burns of the three roosevelts,