(khrushchev speaking in russian) would be this open with the u.s. and the last time richard nixon would meet with the man when our look back on the cold war continues, we remember when government plans to prepare the nation turned fear into a catchy tune. the clandestine deal that involved trading spys on a bridge and a presidential analogy world events for decades. plus, we look at when the threat got a whole lot closer to american shores. then, after decades of tension, we look at how it all came crashing down. by the end of the 1950s, the cold war was ingrained in our national identity. cold war was ingrained in our national identity. an "air raid drill" was as common an occurance as a pop quiz at schools all across the country. partially due to a public service announcement that the eisenhower administration created in 1954. they called it 'operation alert.' "three, two, one ..." in 1954, every american knew the destructive power of the atom bomb. just nine years removed from the and nagasaki the images of death, destruction, and fallout were fr

we know from khrushchev, he thought john f. kennedy was a lightweight. don't think he would of thought that way about nixon. what you believe? pat buchanan: i do believe khrushchev sought kidney -- kennedy being hesitated, launched the bay of pigs which was a complete debacle. and he ran into kennedy and vienna, and even kennedy himself said khrushchev brutalized him. he did not put up the berlin wall. kennedy called up my friends for one more year in the service, and i think that persuaded khrushchev to get a way of putting missiles in cuba. he would never have done that under eisenhower, because of world war ii. and i don't think he would have done that while richard nixon, if nixon had he won that election at all. i don't think richard nixon would have sent those fellows into cuba unless he was determined that even -- invasion would work. but i can't know. i will be honest, as i point out in my book, you know, i supported the vietnam war as an editorial writer from 1962, supported kennedy in a missile crisis. and i think the whole country at one point

i'll never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought nikita khrushchev to the united states. he was the most senior master sergeant on the base so, you know, there was a viewing area well back to the fence, he could get us pretty close, my brother and i. so it was wonderful. but, yeah, she just, you know, what a treat. and she's, you know, sitting there and listening to stories about her grandfather and her grandmother and what they were like and see the things in the home but have a personal touch put with them. this was this, this was where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that or the other. i mean, it was just fabulous. >> host: i don't know if you picked up peter carlson's of "the washington post"'s book about kruschev's trip -- >> guest: no, i haven't read that. i am 59, so at the time i was like, 9, 10 years old. i remember it very, very well, following it on television and all those sorts of things. but, you know, she's got -- again, she's got one story after -- churchill, montgomery, you know, coming there and walking the battlefield with her

khrushchev was embarrassed just as my father feared. he fell.lking about the democratic party kurt >> i have been hardened by the conduct of this convention. you have argued and disagreed because as democrats to care and do care deeply. but you have disagreed and argued without calling each other liars and thieves, without spoiling our best traditions. [applause] you have not support our best traditions and any struggles for power. you have written as a platform that neither contradicts nor even aids. you have restated our party's record. its principles and its purposes and languages that none can mistake. nor am i afraid that the democratic party is old and fat. after 150 years, it has been old for a long time. it will never be indolent as long as it looks forward and not back. as long as it commands the young and the hopeful during the dreams and xi the visions of a better america and a better world. you will see many people express concern about the continuation of one party in power for 20 years. i don't to be little this attitude. but chang

here is where i met khrushchev and the house. we were talking and i actually got close to the plane and 59. my dad was a master sergeant in the air force base and i will bl never forget us going out there to look at the plane that had brought nikita khrushchev to the united states. he was the most senior master on the base. it was wonderful. what a treat. their grandmother and grandfather and what it was like and see the things in the home but have a personal hunch this is where i used to sit when my grandmother was doing this, that and the other. >> host: i don't know if you picked up peter carlson and the "washington post" the book about the trip. >> it was a big deal. it was nine or 10-years-old iron and are very well following on television all of us but again there's montgomery and blocking the battlefield with a grandfather and then the fun stuff like here's the barn and the forces, try to catch me or follow me. but again she's a wonderful person but a treat. >> the importance of william shakespeare to the culture and polit

and of course, khrushchev was embarrassed. just as my father feared, he fell.use the kennedy administration had to be tough instead of compromising and giving khrushchev an easy way out. >> well, one of the goals of the contenders is to figure out how the contenders changed their respective parties, how they changed american politics. and after we take this call, we're going to move into that topic area. but rootstown, ohio, duncan, please go ahead with your question on adlai stevenson. >> caller: thanks for having me. i was just curious as to whether or not you've ever heard of an organization called the builder bird and if adlai stevenson had ever attended the builderberg conference. >> thank you for your call. go ahead, senator. >> this adlai stevenson has been to a builder bird conference. i don't know about my father, how far back that goes. and i don't know what the implications are, though i can guess. builder bird conferences were occasional meetings of very senior figures from around the world at which they got together to discuss the problems facing t

my father didn't want it to be secret because he did not want to embarrass the khrushchev.s embarrassed just as my father feared. he fell. he was succeeded by a group from which emerged brezhnev and the hardliners and -- and the cold war escalated because the kennedy administration had to be tough instead of compromising and giving khrushchev an easy way out. >> well, one of the goals of could the the contender is" is to figure out how the contenders changed their respective parties and how they changed american politics, and after we take this call we're going to move into that topic area, but rootstown, ohio, duncan, please go ahead with your question on adlai stevenson. >> caller: thanks for having me. i was just curious as to whether or not you've ever heard of an organization called builderberg and if adlai stevenson had ever attended the builderberg conference before. >> thank you for your call. go ahead, senator stevenson. this ad lay has been to a bildeberg conference. i don't know about my father and i don't know how far back those goes but i can guess. bilderberg

did things change when khrushchev came to power?people started coming back from the labor caps. -- camps. he became vegetarian, which is a wonderful word. instead of being like man eating tigers. still different sorts of pressure. they wanted to corral you into their way of thinking. did he denounced trayvon ski? evinski?on s >> he did announce him. he just thought, well, i will read the first page and i will sit down. translator read the english version and idly followed it. he found himself denouncing stravinsky.ouncing in exile in california at the time. and who he thought was the greatest composure -- composer of the 20th century. here he was having to denounce him. coming to this, did you decide that you wanted to explore power and art? >> the novelist picks up where the biographer and historian stops. in told take you further the person. did you feel any pressure after the prize to produce something to be considered as good or better? >> i didn't. i was lucky enough to win when i was in my 60's. had i won in my 30's, it might'

khrushchev, ted kennedy as got a really cheap car you can have for a dollar just if you get it out of the 20 feet of water before the police do or something. i mean, the same cannot be accessed. it was really ridiculous, everybody saying he's talking about treason or something, and hillary's people had damaged it. they destroyed federal data on it. he should point out that 30,000 emails, that's 98% of hers were about her and only two about the taxpayers, 400 emails on taxpayer time. host: all right, rob, the comment of sarcasm he made to fox news, it was just a car sass particular comment. guest: yeah, i think one of the things is donald trump is a very unconventional presidential candidate. and he has a speaking style that is not the most precise all the time, and he's very fond of sort of throwing in one liners and jabs. that's part of his appeal to some voters. and i think sometimes it's a a le hard for voters, it's little hard for reporters to really be able to tell, well, when is he really serious here? you know, how is he trying to make this point with maybe humor and exaggerati

eisenhower was working very closely with khrushchev to improve relations and screwed it up when he sent powers over but the paris summit would have shortened the cold war by a great deal. back to the bush -- the roosevelt administration, you have to go back there. president lincoln's decision to maintain the union. >> thank you. >> i think you have a consensus thinking the iraq war under george bush was the worst foreign policy decision. how do you treat the war against afghanistan, which i think was weakened and is still going on too. >> against afghanistan was weakened by bush's decision to go into iraq. i am going to take a minority position but i am not sure the war in afghanistan was necessary. you have got the accident that happened on 9/11, four planes were hijacked, three crashed into buildings. that is not a reason to go to war. you handle that as a legal issue, try it in the courts, find anyone who was involved but you don't go to war over something like that. i may be in a minority position but that is what i believe. >> bush welcomed the possibility that -- to be a war hero

my father didn't want it to be secret because he didn't want to embarrass khrushchev. was embarrassed just as my father feared. he fell, he was succeeded by a group from which emerged breschnev, because they had to be tough in giving him a way out. >> one of the goals of the contenders was to figure out how they changed their policies, changed american politics. and after we take this call, we'll move into the topic area. please go ahead with your question. >> thank you. i was just curious as to whether or not you have ever heard of an organization called the builder berg, and if adlai stevenson had been to the conference before. >> thank you for your call. >> this adlai stevenson has been to a builderberg conference, i don't know about my father, how far back that goes. and i don't know what the implications are, builder berg conferences were occasionally meetings against senior figures around the world. they got together to discuss the problems facing the world. absolutely nothing sinister about them. yes, this adlai stevenson has been to a couple of them. i don't kn

charlie: did things change when khrushchev came to power?es, things changed, you likely were not getting killed, people started coming back from the the labor camps. to use a phrase of the poet, power he came vegetarian, which is a wonderful word rather than carnivorous. power became vegetarian. [speaking simultaneously] julian: instead of like man eating tigers. but there was still different sorts of pressure, they still wanted to corral you into their way of thinking. also they wanted you to represent them. charlie: did he have to develop -- denounce stravinsky? julian: he did denounce stravinsky. they were given pages to read, either you look at them before or did not, and in he's he got have very long speech to read. he thought i would read the first page and sit down. the american translator read the english version, and he sort of idly followed it. he found himself denouncing himself, denouncing the cookie of, to know -- denouncing prokofiev, denouncing stravinsky. stravinsky, in exile in california at the time. and who shostakovich th

. >> rose: did things change when khrushchev came to power. >> yes. people stopped getting killed and people started coming back from the labor camps that's certainly true. to use the frayed -- power became vegetarian which is a wonderful word. >> rose: became vegetarian. >> power became vegetarian. and so being man-eating tigers, yes. but there was still different sorts of pressure. they still want to corral in their way of thinking. >> rose: did he denounce -- >> he did denounce him. you were given speeches to read and either you looked before or you didn't. in his case, if he got this very old speech to read and he just thought well i'll read the first page and i'll sit down. read the first page and sat down. the american -- read the english version and sort of idly followed it and then he found himself denouncing himself denounced and he thought it was -- in tal at the time and who thought was the greatest composer in the 20th isn't tree. he revered him and here he was having to denounce him. >> rose: coming to this, did you decide in your mind i

and doing nothing with the building of the berlin wall, which led khrushchev to think he could put nucleare first place. what presidents do counts. president obama has been the commander in chief. he made the decision to withdraw these troops from iraq, do it the way he did. the situation is now as we find it. he's the responsible officer of the government. >> general, thank you. i appreciate the perspective on this. i'm out of time for right now. this is going to be a conversation that keeps going. thank you very much for your perspective. appreciate it. >> thank you, chris. >> brianna? >> chris, a disaster in the suburbs of washington. an explosion and a fire leveling an apartment complex. two people are dead. five others, this includes two children r still missing. the search is continuing. we'll have more straight ahead. this is the summer. the summer of this. the summer that summers from here on will be compared to. get out there. find hotels at up to 50% off and more ways to save at expedia.com/save50. hi. hey. you're that guy from verizon who switched to sprint. i used to ask if you

they used to brag back in khrushchev's day that because of their greater patience and because of our greed for business deals that they would sooner or later get the better of us. is it possible that despite some setbacks in the middle east, they've proved their point? our allies in france and italy are now flirting with communism. we've recognized the permanent communist regime in east germany. we've virtually signed, in helsinki, an agreement that the russians have dominance in eastern europe. we've bailed out soviet agriculture with our huge grain sales. we've given them large loans, access to our best technology and if the senate hadn't interfered with the jackson amendment, maybe you would've given them even larger loans. is that what you call a two-way street of traffic in europe? mr. ford: i believe that we have negotiated with the soviet union since i've been president from a position of strength. and let me cite several examples. shortly after i became president in december of 1974, i met with general secretary brezhnev in vladivostok and we agreed to a mutual cap on the bal