but let me tell you, khrushchev's speech delivered a mortal blow. when i came to washington as deputy chief of the kgb. and later acting chief of station, and we really felt pressures which would be later picked up by great president reagan. by the way, it was mr. gorbachev who called president kennedy a great president. that doesn't happen often, when a soviet leader would call an american president a great leader. well, anyway, i came to washington, and there were no ideological spies any more. illusions were all just destroyed. and we were just capitalize on those who wanted to make money. i will just mention one case, because it may be interesting how you treat intelligence and what may happen. john walker was one of the guys i admired. he was a totally money-motivated guy, he was a volunteer, and we befriended him. he would work for the next 20 years, and recruited his son and brother. anyway, in 1968 i'm acting chief of kgb station in washington. and august 21st, i believe, the soviet troops are about to move into czechoslovakia to crush the y

a muslim can read square stalin's personality cult was later denounced by his successor nikita khrushchev later stalin was very close to the muscle in libya to richard was stripped of the order of lenin and the alleged saboteur daughters worthies from prison they were even allowed to resume their work at the kremlin. russia. which brightened a few new bands soon from finest impressions. whose friends totty dot com. in tomsk siberia is so-called kremlin pills are made this particular drug is unique it contains no chemicals and doesn't dissolve in stomach acid rather it is a small electronic device that is told the chip inside is two by two millimeters with a thousand transistors super microelectronics in those days the kremlin pill is slightly larger than the theme once it is in the body it starts generating impulses emulating the rhythms of a young healthy body. after the breakup of the soviet union pharmacies began selling kremlin pills the device was hailed as the cure of the future and at the beginning sales skyrocketed somebody had recommended it to me i felt that if they used it in t

five a wind of change was in the end of the strike it was announced in the country like nikita khrushchev but the people with the franken straightforward manner he was far more refined and civilized. gets closer to be. close enough. which often appeared in public together with his wife a practice previously unseen among other service leaders. was active in the nation's public life in soviet times many people resent it to have it they blame the country's first lady to sway decisions. brace ago virtually died of leukemia in september one thousand nine hundred ninety before passing away she said that forming victims of the severe illness and dying would be the only way to get people to understand her this time the kremlin medicine was hopeless. but i am missing a friend and i have lost during his hard struggle my beloved wife has been that's what is lacking in my life i always remember that. wars yields president of russia nineteen ninety one nineteen ninety nine suffered from heart disease eight years after his resignation he died of progressive cardiovascular and multiple organ failure in

har--you could hardly see khrushchev. but in any event, it was a picture by bert glenn, who's alive and well and living in new york. c-span: are you gonna live out your life in paris? >> guest: i hope so. c-span: you still an american citizen? >> guest: oh, sure. i'm very active in--in politics. i'm... c-span: what are you doing? >> guest: well, i was a delegate to one of the two political conventions in--the last time. c-span: let me guess, it wasn't the republican convention. >> guest: it was not the republican. c-span: and a delegate from where? >> guest: from france. democrats overseas are well organized. we have--democrats abroad has chapters in many countries, and france is one of the largest and most active. c-span: we're out of time. our guest has been john g. morris. here's what the book looks like, the picture there on the cover by robert turnley? >> guest: no, david turnley. c-span: david turnley. those are twin brothers. >> guest: right. c-span: and the title of the book is called "get the picture." thank you

nixon had just debated with khrushchev and i had debated with hubert humphrey and that gave me an edge how close did he come to beating jfk? >> well, the primary not -- i think he probably lost by 10% in the primary and the west virginia, wisconsin primaries, i think wisconsin might have been worse. but he didn't even really have a chance. but that's another whole story. kennedy's campaign was pretty well financed and humphrey didn't have a lot of money and he was really kind -- sort of bought out i would have to say. and there are stories of people being handed $5 and, you know, all kinds of things that went on during that campaign, that he didn't really have much of a chance. he was expected to win in that state, and that's why you'll hear michael beschloss say that he was expected to win. it wasn't so much that he went after the noncatholic vote but it was largely a protestant state and because of kennedy's catholicism, they didn't think he would win there, so something had to change. and i think -- it's interesting because i think if he would have won that primary, i think he would

. >> masha, certainly he's not a dictator like stalin or khrushchev or brezhnev were, right gentlem right? >> it's hard to rank dictators on a scale. it's dangerous for people in opposition. journalists have been killed. opposition activists have been called and it's a current where there's no real democracy and no independent media. >> meanwhile, i was fascinated by the book, the beginning when you talk about as a little kid he was kind of a bully, right? >> or at least that's the way he chose to portray himself. the thing about putin is that before he was in the public eye he was a secret police agent. his entire early life was secret so he got to write his own story which i think is very telling. if you look at what this man chose to tell the world that he's a street thug basically, he has trouble controlling his temper. >> do you think he's done good things for the nation, though? >> i don't. he has been extremely lucky. he has ridden the oil boom in russia. but along the way what he has done is he's instituted an extremely corrupt system of state capitalism basically amassing a lot o

khrushchev said if he had two left, he would've hit new york with them.in his deliberations was, hey, if you hit new york, do you think any american president left, right, or center wouldn't have had to throw everything we had at the soviet union and its countries, satellite countries? that would have been armageddon, and we were so close back then. but obama must be thinking, is there anything worse than a nuclear iran? first thing you have to say, is there anything worse? there might be other things worse than that. of course he's not going to let them have a nuclear weapon, but he has to think about the possibilities. hezbollah could be unleashed up and down the americas right now. he'd have to be prepared for that the minute he strikes. he has to think about the consequences which will occur the day after we strike if we go first or part of an israeli attack. >> i forgot who asked him. somebody asked the president recently, what keeps you awake at night? he wouldn't answer. he finally said, okay, you want to know? pakistan. a nuclear pakistan. he unde