khrushchev sent her a dog. >> i that were dog.t. ( laughter ) >> jon: are you suggesting the dog was a kgb agent. it knew how to go down the slide from the tree house to the ground. it was really pretty cute but it was really nervous, and she describes how she thinks it had never opinion out of the laboratory because it just bit everyone, one of the gardners at the white house very nicely took it home. ( laughter ) but it had puppies, too. and there was a contest where people could write in with their names and on my last book tour i met somebody who had written in and gotten one of the puppies. >> jon: you're kidding. was it a revenge there's a russian half breed somewhere. i don't upon. >> jon: were you ever-- is there any any moment in here-- you obviously have read through this-- where you pop up? was there ever a, "caroline?" >> my brother, of course, is interrupting but not me. >> jon: really. >> he goes, out, out. but he's really cute. it's adorable when he enemies. i don't know what i was doing. probably reading. >> jon: e

that was khrushchev's plan, what was the concern was they would maintain military superiority, that was the real worry because underneath that there was awareness of the fact that the economic wasn't what the russians were proclaiming it was, that it was running down into the group, that it was stalemated, and that these were sort of estimates that were devoid of much rationale at this,, rash facility, in fact by the late seventies by the russian elite there was a pervasive understanding that they were not leaving the industal age and entering the age of the internet and cputer and it was stagnating and that was the underpinning. >> rose: notwithstanding space exploration. >> space exploration was wonderful but remember they lost the race to the moon, and they didn't accomplish much after that. they intent a lot of resources in competing with us and they realized this wasn't working. so they still had left the nuclear weapons which were really competitive and the illusion proclaimed by khrushchev propagated, and by brezhnev they would surpass us in economic power where in fact they were

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petraeus is getting used to his new role as the cia director but archie military analyst here going to khrushchev thinks the official stance on his intelligence means he's defending an outdated strategy of his organization instead of trying to reform it during the joint session of the senate or barrels intelligence committee. did he cave to the tenth anniversary of nine eleven attack on the united states general david petraeus the newly minted cia director and general jim clapper the director of national intelligence presented their views general petraeus from the outset emphasized that he was presenting the agency view on the terrorist threat but would look like innocuous slip of tone actually turned into a very successful attempt to protect the agency's view regarding the cia role these. and its affiliates activities all around the world there was a high expectation of a general petraeus would challenge conventional visit and calcified theories and minds plainly instead as the speaker of the agency he promulgated yet again ten years old views of the agency and the threats and challenges there a

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he agitated nikita khrushchev greatly and there was a lot of fallout between the eisenhower administrationhe soviets over this buying that was going on. but at the same time, what stockman brought back in the film canisters of his u2 was over 400,000 square feet of film of spy footage, about what was going on in the soviet union. as he said to me, the cia was able to learn and understand that in fact the soviets were not lining up for world war iii as many members of the air force wanted to believe. certainly general lemay who is a character in my book as well. you might call him the antagonist. when you consider that the cia's job is to present intelligence to the president based on facts, not fiction, not speculation, that is what the u2 spy plane certainly did for us and that was an important notion. but at the same time, there were other elements of the government that were really pushing science as i right in the book and here is what i get into some of the more dangerous areas and the questions that i would like leaders to be able to ask of themselves about whether or not pushing sci

and given the rhetoric coming out of the kremlin, khrushchev was saying all sorts of things like we will bury you, and those were literally his words, they seemed more and more willing to use them. i emphasize this to point out that the specter of a communist country 90 miles from american shores was simply intolerable, and not just to conservatives like barry goldwater, 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

she also helped to foment of little bit friendlier relationship with khrushchev, and even through thelear standoff of the cuban missile crisis, her popularity was not so great that it could prevent that, and this is the something touched on by the book in the tapes, but she wrote an extraordinary letter on the last night in all white house. she read i handwritten letter to nikita khrushchev, the premier of the soviet union, about nuclear war. amazing for side. she said, i think we know now that you are a world power, and the leaders of the superpower no there is no such thing as harming one without harming themselves. that is the small rogue nations, men without side egos, who really pose the danger. you, mr. chairman, have to continue on in the effort with whoever is leading the united states, and both of you, despite the differences of philosophies of government, you have to both s lease continue to fight this nuclear threat. host: one of the iconic photographs from the book with john and caroline kennedy, with a proud father looking on. time for one more call. this could stand in m