first time he met nikita khrushchev. he thought i am young, i am bright, i am dynamic and charismatic and that is how i won the presidency, i will be able to charm this communist russian peasant with no problem. one problem. he didn't. and khrushchev as the story goes, savaged the president to the deck of the president came out of the first summit meeting action faced. khrushchev took the measure of the man. mrs. kennedy on the other hand meeting at the same time with mrs. khrushchev and they are getting along famously. i am not here to argue that that saved the free world or save the from the bomb being dropped but if you have some personal diplomacy going on behind the scenes that certainly helped. here is another point i wish to raise. if you can see, mrs. kennedy is grab a -- wearing a sedate dark suit, lovely pillbox hats she became famous for. look at mrs. khrushchev. you are a third world country as we call them in those days. we have aligned with the soviets or with the united states and you have to decide am i g

>> i think a good example of an lie that backfired involved nikita khrushchev. most young americans would be shocked to know that in 1957 the soviet union was the first country to number one put a ballistic missile in the air, and number two, the first country to put a satellite in outer space. but after launching the first intercontinental ballistic missile, the soviets and here we are talking mostly about nikita khrushchev would be a leader at the time allotted to the american people and lied to the american leadership and tried to give us the impression that there was a missile gap that they had a huge a advantage in missiles over the united states. in fact they did not have a huge of feige of missiles. we couldn't tell what the balance of power was regarding missiles because we didn't have overhead satellite at the time that could look down in the soviet union and count their muscles so when they told us they have lots of missiles most people assumed that that was true. of course they didn't have an advantage in missiles but what it did is it spurred us to b

the american media suspected ideal to ask if there was a deal, a kennedy would have to live but khrushchev should understand the deal was still on. of course, the media quickly picked up the possibility there was a deal and ast kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they lied. it was smart because kennedy ended the cuban-- cuban missile crisis given the gravity of the situation it was imperative he bring it to an end without the possibility of war. he felt the only way he could do that was to tell a lie. >> host: did fdr lie to get into world 42? >> he tried in the late summer of 1941 there was unable incident involving the uss career hat and involved with a british aircraft running into a german submarine. what roosevelt did is told a series of lies about that incident for the purposes of getting into world war ii because at the time he was desperate to get into the war having great difficulty doing it dealing with isolationist america so told a lie to get us in but it did not work. it took pearl harbor. >> host: went to world leaders get behind closed doors to they like to each other?

so he in effect told khrushchev that khrushchev could say nothing about the deal and if anyone in the american media suspected a deal and asked him whether there was a deal, kennedy would have to lott. khrushchev should understand that the deal was still on and of course the media quickly picked up the possibility that there was a deal and asked kennedy and his lieutenants about it and they lied. and i think that this was a smart bayh to tell because kennedy ended the cuban missile crisis and given the gravity of the situation at the time, i think it was imperative that he bring it to an and without the possibility of war. and he did that and he felt the only way he could do it was by telling a lie. >> host: did fdr lie back to get us into world war ii? >> guest: he lied to try to get us into world war ii in the late summer of 1941. there was a naval incident in the atlantic ocean involving a uss greer, which was a naval, a u.s. navy surface ship and it was involved in an operation with a british aircraft and they ran into a german submarine. what roosevelt did was he told a series of

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khrushchev was undermining mao's authority. that is not to say the cuban missile crisis -- >> it was the scab. >> since we are in the navy memorial with distinguished naval persons, let me take the naval view. could we have taken action earlier? in my own view is that we could have. we could have a mind the entire coast without bringing china in. as we embark on a kind of christmas bombing, were taken a lot more of the protective sides, i think that would have brought the chinese reinforcement. they would have greatly increase their support. i want to hear both the dixit response but the hostility between the chinese callbacks millennia. the chinese were not that comfortable in supporting vietnam. certainly they supported them in solidarity with their communist brothers. their national dislike of the vietnamese made a more complex issue. i think we could have brought a better and earlier end to the war had we mined and enforced a mining operation. >> what i find interesting about this exchange is the way president nixon combine

lincoln and the civil war, and roosevelts in the second world war and even john kennedy against khrushchev and getting the missiles out of cuba, but barack obama is e name that killed osama bin laden. this is the boogeyman that terrorized our country for a number decades all the way back to the late 1980's and 1993 with the bombings. barack obama, the young senator from illinois came in and he was the one to find him and kill him. if that is an ad not gone well, barack obama would be a second coming of jimmy carter with the iran crisis that occurred with the hostages. host: let's hear what you have to say about that. guest: it's interesting that donald is impressed by jon huntsman. he is an interesting cracter. he hopes that he can have that kind of crossover appeal. president obama was impressed enough by him to make him ambassador to china. weill see how that affects the republican primary. it's interesting what the caller said about the killing of osama bin laden. i think that was a foreign policy triumph for president obama, but the question is how much will that resonates in 2012? wha

statements out of washington that some washington people in the government were convinced nikita khrushchev was sincere in his desire for peace, and he said that the system board and so wrong. he said, he is a common test. -- communist. he is a meet their ellis. he will therefore do what ever is necessary to achieve his ends. sincerity has nothing to do with it. i recall talking to -- >> you see a man who understands that you need to do a deal to initiate, but you need to negotiate from strength. it is time to negotiate because of those early years of the reagan presidency, the united states had come back in its list three straight and fighting spirit. the soviet had declined because of economic problems, the time was right to do a deal. this is his sense of the shifting political forces and what we ought to do with them. you saw here a second point, his ability to communicate in clear, simple phrases. both of our panel who watched him work on speeches, he would work them over and over again on his yellow pad, not just the words, but his thoughts, holding them down so every word had meeting

statements out of washington that some washington people in the government were convinced nikita khrushchev was sincere in his desire for peace, and he said that the system board and so wrong. he said, he is a common test. -- communist. he is a meet their ellis. he will therefore do what ever is necessary to achieve his ends. sincerity has nothing to do with it. i recall talking to -- >> you see a man who understands that you need to do a deal to initiate, but you need to negotiate from strength. it is time to negotiate because of those early years of the reagan presidency, the united states had come back in its list three straight and fighting spirit. the soviet had declined because of economic problems, the time was right to do a deal. this is his sense of the shifting political forces and what we ought to do with them. you saw here a second point, his ability to communicate in clear, simple phrases. both of our panel who watched him work on speeches, he would work them over and over again on his yellow pad, not just the words, but his thoughts, holding them down so every word had meeting

lincoln and the civil war, and roosevelts in the second world war and even john kennedy against khrushchevnd getting the missiles out of cuba, but barack obama is the name that killed osama bin laden. this is the boogeyman that terrorized our country for a number decades all the way back to the late 1980's and 1993 with the bombings. barack obama, the young senator from illinois came in and he was the one to find him and kill him. if that is an ad not gone well, barack obama would be a second coming of jimmy carter with the iran crisis that occurred with the hostages. host: let's hear what you have to say about that. guest: it's interesting that donald is impressed by jon huntsman. he is an interesting character. he hopes that he can have that kind of crossover appeal. president obama was impressed enough by him to make him ambassador to china. we will see how that affects the republican primary. it's interesting what the caller said about