khrushchev is unprepared to support our economy and khrushchev said no i cannot do that. khrushchev gave group issued instructions to stop the refugee flow and he said to him not one millimeter more. then he sent marshall to berlin to keep an eye on the situation and probably particularly to control mr. rubin should as well as watching the situation. on august 13, 1961 at 2:30 a.m. i got a phonecall and somebody said to me it was the duty officer at the mission. there something going on in east berlin. would he go take a look back site got into my car which was a 190 sl convertible. the best way to look at what is going on. i drove a and i didn't get duty reimbursement i should add. i drove at potsdam. i was stopped because there were east german locals putting barbed wire across the street. i said to them you cannot stop me. you have to let me through. i'm a member of the allied forces. i have to be able to get through. they checked with an officer and the officer said yes you have to let him through. they pulled back the barbed wire and let me go into east berlin. i dro

khrushchev is unprepared to support our economy and khrushchev said no i cannot do that. khrushchev gave group issued instructions to stop the refugee flow and he said to him not one millimeter more. then he sent marshall to berlin to keep an eye on the situation and probably particularly to control mr. rubin should as well as watching the situation. on august 13, 1961 at 2:30 a.m. i got a phonecall and somebody said to me it was the duty officer at the mission. there something going on in east berlin. would he go take a look back site got into my car which was a 190 sl convertible. the best way to look at what is going on. i drove a and i didn't get duty reimbursement i should add. i drove at potsdam. i was stopped because there were east german locals putting barbed wire across the street. i said to them you cannot stop me. you have to let me through. i'm a member of the allied forces. i have to be able to get through. they checked with an officer and the officer said yes you have to let him through. they pulled back the barbed wire and let me go into east berlin. i dro

>> with us is simon marks and sergei khrushchev, the son of nikita khrushchev the leader of the sovietnion. this is a picture of father and son going back to 1959. sergei is now a senior fellow at the great brown university's watson institute for international studies. professor, thank you for joining us. i guess the first question is,ing what are russia's interests in syria? >> stability. russia don't want to have all this fighting on their borders. he had they are already feared about the taliban in afghanistan and now to have them near the caucuses, it will be nightmare for russia. they need stability and predictability and they think president assad is giving this stability and all this creating uncertainty because nobody who are they and who will be in power would they win. >> do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now have faces a common enly alongside russia of islamistism, the danger of the chechnians and the danger of the people in al qaeda? do we see the same enemy across the frontier? >> i would not say that islam the enemy to west or to russia. but rus

did it have any effect on what happened to khrushchev? >> thank you. i want to point the president's efforts out. the secret correspondent and the premiere of the soviet union. the efforts between the president and the premiere of the soviet union in regard to space according to surrogate. the prime minister's premiere son. about a week and a half or two weeks before dallas. the khrushchev had accepted kennedy's offer, yeah. going to the moon jointly. >> yeah. you're right. kennedy on the other hand. kennedy made the trip to what was soon the kennedy space center. and saw the stood underneath the missile and got excited he rocked back and forth and kept saying to himself when it goes up, we'll be ahead of the russians. so he kind of got all excited about it. again. but i think -- i think he was serious about it. -- thank you very much, everybody. [applause] [applause] >>> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events. and every weekend the lates

with us is simon marks and sergei khrushchev, the son of nikita khrushchev the leader of the soviet unionthis is a picture of father and son going back to 1959. sergei is now a senior fellow at the great brown university's watson institute for international studies. professor, thank you for joining us. i guess the first question what are russia's interests in syria? >> stability. russia don't want to have all this fighting on their borders. he had they are already feared about the taliban in afghanistan and now to have them near the caucuses, it will be nightmare for russia. they need stability and predictability and they think president assad is giving this stability and all this creating uncertainty because nobody who are they and who will be in power would they win. >> do you think, professor, that the united states and the west now faces a common enemy alongside russia of islamtism? the danger of the chechnians and the danger of the people in al qaeda? do we see the same enemy across the frontier? >> i would not say that islam the enemy to west or to russia. but russia live with the i

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>> funny moment with khrushchev.i frankly don't know what he said about eisenhower after the hungarian -- so i can't answer that question. but i do know in the context of berlin, that there was this moment when they had been negotiating a little bit, at the foreign minister level, and in geneva i think, and it had turned out to nothing, nothing useful. and to eisenhower decided i'd like to get to know this man a little better. and invited khrushchev to washington and the camp david. had been escorted by capital watch all around the country. country. this is the famous trip on which khrushchev railed because he couldn't get into disneyland. and then khrushchev met with eisenhower at camp david. and essentially eisenhower did what he always did and did beautifully which was talked in such a rabid way that nobody quite knew what he was saying, but they thought might be okay but they weren't sure, and you know how this went. there's a famous moment when everybody in eisenhower's cabinet was confused that what you should

if you look at kennedy and khrushchev in 1961, where khrushchev took kennedy's measure and thought he was weak at that summit in vienna. you had almost immediately the construction of the berlin wall, and sending missiles to cuba. people these kind of crises. if they sense weakness, whether it's iran, whether it's russia, whether it's north korea, you could see syria's reo see serios here. >> schieffer: why is it in russia's interest for syria flotto have cems? >> i think they don't want the attention. assad is their client. this has been bad for assad, fomented opposition to his regime generally. if they remove the threat of chemical weapons, i think the rest of the world is going to say there's a terrible civil war going on there, it's terrible for the syrian people, we're not going to do very much about it. >> bob, forbe policy experts say in part russia is concerned about chemical weapons getting in wrong hands and being used against them and their own people back home. but the larger issue here, as they say, is russia's strongest interest is to keep assad in power. that gives the

the real problem the drove the cuban missile crisis was that khrushchev assessed that kennedy would nottand up and, and the whole thing went south and took the world to the birching -- brink of nuclear war. here again, putin is looking at president obama and he is assessing that this guy is weak and he is not going to stand up. so, if all he is saying, all the president is saying is, well, we're just going to some across missiles in there and punish assad, that's a great first step. what does step two look like? because that is what everybody is going to have to deal with. because there will be a step two. >> neil: and step three, and step four. streaming for -- screaming for someone to say you need a hug? but we're not there, i guess. >>> the senate is expected to get the syrian resolution this friday. the whole senate votes now. it was the foreign relations committee that handled the chore yesterday. this would then put it on fast track for a full vote next week inch the house it's facing a far tougher fight. so, gentlemen no easy sell for you, your committee members or the full house

he had his first encounter with nikita khrushchev in which he came away looking callow and unprepared. so, the first year was a big learning experience from the president. host: you have in the special edition reporting from kennedy's years and around those years as well. the headline from david brinkley in february of 1965, originally entitled "leading from strength lbj and action." "too cool for congress" could be a headline for this administration and its relationship. guest: there are interesting echoes. there are some interesting comparisons to be drawn, i think, between that administration and this one. david brinkley, of course, was a very famous broadcaster and obviously a wonderful writer. deeply knowledgeable about congress and washington. and he argues in this piece that part of the reason kennedy failed with congress was he simply couldn't connect. he vaulted to the white house after only briefly serving in the senate. he remained in all of the old -- awe of the lions in both of the senate and felt maybe insecure dealing with them. and then brinkley makes an argument that

fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter this half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion. because we can't w

khrushchev said we want peace, we want peace. the reality was gorbachev said this is how i'm going to dismandle the apparatus of the soviet union. in iran you have talks of we're going to dismantile the nuclear bo bomb, but every time we come up with a condition, they say we will discuss it in geneva. they are trying to gain time. >> benjamin netanyahu will lay out his case to the world, a different case than what we've heard this past week. walid farris, thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you, sir. >> not only the potential for a government shutdown this week. we're talking about millions of americans will be required to sign up for health insurance under obama care. will the new online marketplaces, the so-called exchanges, be up and running in time? the president says they have to be so what you need to know before tuesday. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antio

he had to find a way to deal with the soviets and allow a chance for khrushchev to back off. already placed in turkey and said okay, secretly to khrushchev, you'll need this to take to your generals. tell them if i promise to pull them out secretly, you can pull the missiles out of cuba. at a certain point you have to give the other side a chance to back away or you're go i think to have war. i think in this case putin, we'll wait and see. trust and verify and all that stuff. but i think putin has a chance to be a great world leader for a few months leading up to his winter olympics next year. so don't put down the chances it's in putin's interest to be the good guy here. i think it's possible. >>> up next, she hasn't made it official, but it looks more and more like hillary clinton is running for president. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ ♪ we go, go, we don't have to go solo ♪ ♪ fire, fire, you can take me higher ♪ ♪ take me to the mountains, start a revolution ♪ ♪ hold my hand, we can make, we can make a contribution ♪ ♪ brand-new season, keep it in m

with the missile crisis and with nuclear war but kennedy and khrushchev resorted to diplomacy instead the soviet union would withdraw its missiles from cuba kennedy would remove u.s. missiles from turkey and not invade cuba. despite with president kennedy had promised to. the christian off on. agreeing to get the missiles out of cuba. we suddenly were found again a new boss came in and we were back in action again to get rid of castro the castro regime. and it was during this period that we ended up with what was called the autonomous groups. to involved operations against against cuba provide money and materiel in any way to these groups do not try to direct them do not try to tell them what to do and do not ask them what they are doing the cubans are going to run their own operations and they do it and if it was a disaster the got about the bush plainly from for its bombing mission i feel hollow and i was going to be the plane left from a secret base log or you go on and. read about nine bombings across the above or this never for the right place we did one thing on a materiel we to

khrushchev has provide the most colorful speech.hen khrushchev to visit should all -- took his shoe off and with beating the lecture. it's on youtube. and then chavez come this is there's a smell of sulfur in this audience. then he showed chomsky's book, which was great. so that's how i would understand the soviet question. i mean, i've already talked a little bit about responsibility protect. there's literature on responsibly to protect which doesn't often get read, and that is the literature of dissent coming from many countries, including by the way i'm proud to say, i have is a very good and but india but i'm proud to say that even this last indian ambassador to the u.n., many points in that city council saying we need to reassess because responsibility to protect issues at the discretion of these permanent members of the security council. they pick and choose. you cannot have responsibility protect and then cherry pick which countries you're going to protect in which you were not. therefore, you can have -- meanwhile, president

and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that well stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of doctors which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell do you see all these pictures behind me these are people the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter there's half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but is actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like. schooling the brutal revolutionary

involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that was stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of doctors which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter this half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary. b

and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of doctors which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor.

he had the famous exchange when khrushchev visited at the end of the '50s and said we'd have a much more conventional force in germany and we can overwhelm you there and eisenhower said you attack us in germany there is nothing conventional about tax law dash our response secretary mcnamara allowed them to become an equal in capability with united states they would negotiate it we could stabilize the cold war. because they believed in the concept so when mr. nixon was elected a did a job to call a nuclear sufficiency to reduce the defense budget but produced these targeted warheads so the larger rockets could have as many as 10 warheads. in purported the reduced the defense budget with the anti-missile defense system with technological leadership but also to sign the greatest agreement in the world. it was good for domestic opinion for the the political climate but his own view was the russians always she did they could not win a technological contest anyway so we should not be bothered but personally i am skeptical of the temps to continue these reductions in the arsenal at the same tim