khrushchev was beside himself. he said, i have tom co-- come to settle berlin, you have got to sign a peace treaty. if you don't, i will sign a peace trity with the east germans, and at that point your rights will evaporate, and you must setting with the gdr. kennedy reacted firmly. he said, you know, here we're not talking about laos. they were talking about something else. we're talking about something that we take much more seriously. kruschev said he was going to sign his treaty within sick months, and he said there might be war, and if there is war, the burdens would be shared equally on all sides. kennedy was unhappy and so after lunch he said, let's have another final meeting even though we're not scheduled to have one, and he tried again to say to kruschev, look, berlin is a budget that is really very difficult for us. we cannot just do what you want, we cannot pull out. khrushchev got even worse and more impatient, and he said, i'm going to sign that treaty within six months, nothing will stop me, there wi

he went to a summit in vienna in june, with khrushchev, and khrushchev just ate his lunch and kennedy afterwards said, he thinks i'm stupid and weak because of what happened at the bay of pigs. and certainly you can make a connection then to khrushchev making this attempt the berlin wall but that diffused the situation in berlin but that's a different story but clearly -- it did trigger -- khrushchev -- >> yeah, yeah. >> that's true. and kennedy certainly was very aware of that when he went to the summit with khrushchev. the repercussions of the bay of pigs just kept going. they didn't really end for kennedy until the cuban missile crisis but, you know, a lot of things -- the vietnam war in many ways started on april 20th, the day after the bay of pigs. john kennedy needing a victory against the communists boarded a task force in the pentagon to look for a way to stop communism in south vietnam and very quickly after that, sent more men, 400 more men to vietnam was really the first step into the morass in vietnam really started on the beaches of vietnam. >> thank you. in my mind, ther

he went to a summit in vienna in june with khrushchev, and khrushchev just ate his lunch. and kennedy afterwards said, he thinks i'm stupid and weak because of what happened at the bay of pigs. and certainly, you can make a connection then to khrushchev making this move to put up the berlin wall, although in some ways the berlin wall diffused the situation in berlin, but that's a rather complicated story. but, certainly -- >> but it triggered the wall being built. >> it did trigger it. >> -- [inaudible] the bay of pigs, and the same thing happened in asia. >> yeah, yeah. well, that's true. and there was certainly, kennedy certainly was very aware of that when he went to the summit with khrushchev. look, the repercussion of the bay of pigs just kept going. i mean, all through -- they really didn't end for kennedy until the cuban missile crisis. but, you know, a lot of things, the vietnam war in many ways started on april 20th, the day after the bay of pigs. john kennedy, needing a victory against the communists, ordered a task force in the pentagon to look for a way to stop

when i saw the crew chef takes, when i saw the khrushchev memoirs, when i saw the book written by khrushchev who is now in the united states. when i thought those things in the east german documents, which have become available, i said to myself, now i can tell the full story. i was interested in the full story. sometimes authors are peculiar and that's the way i him i guess. but the point to me was -- and i apologize for coming back on this. i think kennedy group during this period. i thought at first and making the subtitle education of john f. kennedy because i think he was a different and in the fall of 62 from the spring of 61. khrushchev did not know that. that was a grave mistake. he had become to understand it. great commentary timesman kennedy supported him come on everybody else ran kennedy would not support it. he told me he had a remarkable conversation, where he said this is what you should do. he said the, talk to the president. don't talk to me. so it was quite clear that kennedy was beginning to shift, but he was beginning to shift in the way that none of the people around hi

because if it was too obvious that the united states was behind this, khrushchev would have no choice for his own political reasons but to escalate probably in west berlin, and then john kennedy would have no choice for his political reasons to escalate somewhere else. so that's how this worked. it worked on so many different levels. i mean, if there's one thing i learned writing this book, it's that you don't want to be a president certainly during the cold war. be. .. >> the problem was that it was a very difficult thing to do. and it -- and the way they did it was not the right way. and now you know what the -- what the answer should have been still isn't really clear to me. should john kennedy have thrown in the u.s. military entirely into this? well, we can say to that. then we have to ask what would have happened afterwards. what if marines had gone into cuba? in april of 1961, it's hard to know how that game would have played out. what we do know is what happened. and what happened was a tragedy. thank you all for very much coming tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. [ap

afghanistan and look up the crash that left with cheap killed but it's a controversy of going to khrushchev says american forces should have started keeping their powder dry longer. last week in afghanistan in during the operation in one of the province u.s. special operation forces suffered their war assist casualties have been experienced by the u.s. military during the ten years off operation enduring freedom what makes situation even worse this same type of disaster struck in two thousand and five in not a province when the u.s. seals helicopter was shot down under similar circumstances since then u.s. special operation forces has more than sufficient time to analyze and validate and to make sure that this style of disaster will never struck at the heart of this special operation forces community and especially in afghanistan and pakistan the main lesson for the u.s. command in afghanistan it's lead their regular g i's to do their three cups of tea counting surgeon see you know afghanistan and please keep in strategic reserve special operations command and their team members for the mos

nikita khrushchev called the useful idiots right because they're the right is right in this leadership and leading us to shout i did a great right it's a yes it's a misleading because it's the sheep leading the shepherds and the useful idiots think they're fighting for internet freedom when really they're useful dupes to the soviet leadership to the to the marxist because the way they've done this is they've they've they've hooked it to my generation that this idea of net neutrality by and you'll have to pay you would have to pay as much for a look at all that video and i will moderate hard musician i was one of the few musicians i knew who wasn't ripping off v.n. apps are so like you're stealing from the one person that can walk into the restaurant you're waiting tables at and say you want to wait tables anymore sign here you're stealing from those people likewise never go they'll give you start out intellectual property and. i think we're on the same page on a so but but but the fact of the matter is these companies have spent hundreds of billions of dollars building this network thi

and given the rhetoric coming out of the kremlin -- khrushchev was saying things like, we'll bury you, and those were the words -- and he seemed able to use them. and commune country being so close was intolerable 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 asked him the same question, dr. cass stress, are you a communist? and he answered the same everytime, no, he was not a communist, never had been, never would be. when castro finally left new york on april 25th, the police were relieved to see him go. but most new yorkers were happy he had come to visit. an editorial in "the new york times" sum up the general attitude toward castro. he made it clear that neither he or anybody anyone in his government so far as he knew was a communist. it also seems obvious that americans feel better about castro than they did before. >> up next from the 2011gaitherssburg book, daniel rasmussen discusses his book, "american uprising." about the s

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,

previous works include two volumes on lyndon johnson's secret tapes, the crisis years, kennedy and khrushchev 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, pri

yes, he agitated khrushchev gravy and there was a lot of fallout between the eisenhower administration over the spying. but at the same time, what he brought back woods but what was going on in the soviet union with us by footage. the cia could learn and understand the soviets were not lining up for world 43 as many members of the air force wanted to believe t certainly the jeremy -- general. you may call him the antagonist. when you consider their job is to prevent based on facts or fiction and horror fed is the important notion. at the same time there were other elements. here is ragged and to the more dangerous areas and where i would liketo readers to ask of themselves about whether or not pushing a science is necessarily a good thing. ride around the same time, for a while after world war ii, we had an atomic bomb.rus when we find out and we alsoe have the atomicre bomb, there was a movement created that tore the thermonuclear bomb which was even bigger how the bugs got so far up. and it was opposed on moral grounds saying it was not a good idea to create a weapon that is larger t