and that is, what if nixon had met with khrushchev in vienna in 1961? it would have had a different outcome, perhaps, in the bay of pigs, although it was an eisenhower plan. that nixon knew about. but couldn't go public with in the 1960 campaign. but wouldn't it have been interesting to see nixon and khrushchev in vienna in 1961, because stoihistorians think bee kennedy didn't have such a good outing there with khrushchev, that that actually helped to precipitate the cuban missile crisis. >> and after he met with him, then came the berlin wall in august and the missile crisis. but khrushchev, having met nixon in the kitchen in 1959, did not like nixon, at all. as a matter of fact, it wasn't gary powers, but he had -- we had two other pilots, i think, who had gone over russian territory. and khrushchev told folks that he didn't release them in 1960, so he could help kennedy defeat nixon. he didn't want to do something that nixon could claim retrofor. but i think you're right. i think kennedy misjudged -- excuse me, khrushchev misjudged kennedy, obviously

looks like i think of so i think that's cruz jeff smisek khrushchev that's that's that's that's a bad record i think that's actually jimmy carter right and brezhnev jimmy carter and and you. yes british. jimmy there are more in there and british of so what happened during the president carter era cold war it was pretty hot at that time the cold war was hot and that was the days when a lympics used to be great now it's the opposite in cold war to point out the olympics it's all like you know it's not like oh boy caught in something like that back then we used to be like it was like professional wrestling are professional wrestling which isn't really professional it's just fake it's all entertainment. with the bad just like you are in this period you had the famous hockey summit canada versus russia during this era you would know better than know this was when the philadelphia flyers started beating up russians on i want to ask putin when i interview him later this year about that series you hope yeah i heard this that i'm going to be interviewing putin about hockey detente ice hockey d

khrushchev began to create his own crisis.y threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with the east germans. paris, may 1960. --khrushchev, used the u2 incident is used today break up a summit conference meant to bring the berlin questions nearer to solution. he drops his threat to take immediate action but does not change his tune. berlin, he alleges is the capital of a sovereign east germany. and the allies must be made to quit berlin. here beyond communist germany the force is there. men and armor. june 4, 1961. to president kennedy he repeats his threat to sign a separate treaty. which he claims will and all western rights in berlin, and so on. move after move, until -- on august 13, 1961, a wall of east german police stand at the brandenburg gate. all communication between the eastern sector and those of the west have been cut as though by a knife. before it, west berliners stand , stunned. but soon they give voice to the indignation. [chanting crowd] to all objections, all approaches, the only answer, jets of water fro

i think kennedy misjudged -- excuse me, khrushchev misjudged kennedy as soft and weak. kennedy told james reston, he beat the hell out of me, in that meeting with khrushchev. khrushchev took the measure of him as weak and made a grave mistake. >> what was richard nixon's reaction on the night that robert f. kennedy wonka can caa and was assassinated? >> it was 3:00 a.m. in the east, i got a call from headquarters, jeff bell, who just died, a young aide to nixon, ran for senate, he was in his mid-20s. he called me at my apartment, i was asleep, he woke me up and said, bobby kennedy's been shot. i called nixon, he said i'm already up, trudy and david had been watching the race, they had woken him up. it was amazing, one week before that, i was in oregon when nixon won, may 28th, he swept it, as i mentioned, 70%. he went down to dinner with pat nixon. i went out to the front door with shelley, my girlfriend at the time, because bobby kennedy was coming up from california to concede the race. we saw bobby get out of the car with teddy white, he had the dog with him. i went

khrushchev not a good likeness of it yeah it's not a good likeness so that yesterday is that it actually looks like gorbachev but i'm sure it was recently and i think that the chinese people who made this their order is wrong and they put gorbachev in kennedy put him twice as here's what christopher impression or the cold war there the bay of pigs cuba it all goes back to cuba and the cuban bay of pigs see that's the kind of poetry i don't see on mainstream media they only see here on the cars report why because they were in love well we got to go to the second half don't go away much more coming your way. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see that. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich. to do like to be press that's what about forty three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my house. yes sure. welcome back to the kaiser repo

freshness -- khrushchev was a hard-line communist who had shown no indication in the 1960s of renewing a relationship with a night -- united states. he had increased military spending, he had entered into a series of showdowns in the middle east and other parts of the world with the united states. but privately, the soviets were feeling the strain of higher defense spending on their economy. >> so, he entered into negotiations with nixon. started in 1959, in helsinki. and culminating in may 1972. the salt i agreement limited the number of anti-ballistic missile sites that each country could have. and, it limited the number of intercontinental missiles, and submarine launched ballistic missiles, by freezing them to existing levels. and, the senate approved the agreements very quickly by august, by an overwhelming vote. the second part of ditente under president nixon, was opening relations to china. nixon made a dramatic trip to china in february 1972. carefully orchestrated, like a television production. the air force transported almost 40,000 pounds of equipment. including a full tele

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khrushchev another good likeness of it yeah it's not a good likeness so that we have say that it actually looks like gorbachev but i'm thirty three so i think the chinese people who made this got their orders wrong and they put gorbachev and kennedy put him twice as here's what christopher impression or the cold war there the bay of pigs cuba it all goes back to cuba and the cuban bay of pigs see that's the kind of poetry you don't see on mainstream media they only see here on the cars report why because we're in love well we got to go to the second half don't go away much more coming your way. now that i'm going to learn how to not. let go to the not out of the mouth of the money that they'll let it to me. this was a good time to. try to move the right. balance to get my money not why not next gen then again why extending it the old people who believe the o.p.'s. love of my kids i don't want them up with johnny borrell the moment i've got a mother how do a little accuser is a little on the way committee will be looking at the things i don't want to put on the other party with the mother

is good i was in the military in one nine hundred sixty three and i was glad kennedy talked to khrushchev we need to talk to each other and that means by talking to each other you just get rid of all the sanctions in opportune that we can run the world the way we have we say talking is good i think it depends on what's said let's chat if we may about twitter's new war on hate speech as i understand several libertarian figures of a full a victim of that where are we going with this one. well that's a good question because that is a real mix bad the social media in one sense is a real delight there's a lot of information out there i have to have benefited by but it originated with a lot of government assistance in the biggest role the social networks play is working with the government and giving the government the information they do the work for the n.s.a. so it's a mixed bag or they call themselves private companies libertarian says we don't regulate private companies and it's so mixed so i hope the only thing i can hope for under these conditions is that maybe that you know the market w

looks like i think of so i think that's cruz jeff smisek khrushchev that's that's that's that's a bad record i think that's actually jimmy carter right and brezhnev jimmy carter and and you. yes british. jimmy there are more in there and british so what happened during the president carter era cold war it was pretty hot at that time the cold war was hot and that was the days when a lympics used to be great now it's the opposite in cold war to point out the olympics it's all like you know it's not like oh boy caught in something like that back then we used to be like it was like professional wrestling are professional wrestling which isn't really professional it's just fake it's all entertainment. with the bad just like you're in this period you had the famous hockey summit canada versus russia during this era you would know better than know this was when the philadelphia flyers started beating up russians on i want to ask putin when i interview him later this year about that series you hope yeah i heard this that i'm going to be interviewing putin about hockey detente ice hockey deten

he can remember how khrushchev gave the collective farm workers their passports back one day. at a factory just they then started to be able to move around freely. in this mindset of exploiting people isn't it deeply rooted in russia or china causal topics but surely the. people with hidden pasts like nickel and circle on a easy victims only know about nicolo is. that he once had a run in with the law but the two don't want to say how exactly they became enslaved his wife is resigned to that fate and when they heard that we have to go home now it's enough do you have relatives at home. i have a younger brother but i don't have any parents now we've got a new addition to the family. that is just how it is. a bus will take the family back to russia a bus without a valid operating permit without a tax registration the shadow economy comes full circle no papers required and no questions are asked we try to contacts that lama mikolaj in the new lines to no avail. former slaves prefer not to be reminded of that past says alex. this was the hardest of the three hundred fifty liberati

zany race -- khrushchev and eisenhower race across the states and the summit diplomacy of the late 1950's. the advent of the aggressive and powerful cia. and under alan dulles, the introduction of new technologies into spycraft and intelligence gathering, the space satellites of 1960, all of that is there for the presidential historian. in addition, of course, there's the domestic side and the presidential historian doesn't have the luxury of leaving one big chunk of the presidency out. you have got to get it all in there because that's where the president lives, right in the middle of it all. brown versus board of and little rock up to the civil rights act is a crucial element that occupied a lot of eisenhower's time. layer onto that the red scare and mccarthyism at the beginning of his decade. also a couple of features on the homefront that proved to be important in eisenhower's life in the way he governed, the prominence and rise of kind of public religion in the 1950's. and his own spirituality connected in interesting ways with the rise of prominent public figures from the clergy,

they also take a huge hit when khrushchev comes to power in the soviet union and reveals all the rumors about stalin's behavior are totally true. he was a tyrannical monster who murdered millions and conducted show trials of his political enemies and people he thought might be has political enemies. that has a huge effect in turning people away from the communist party. nonetheless, hoover's obsession with the party keeps it going long before -- long belong -- keeps it going long past the point where it is relevant. the party is well past the point where it poses any conceivable threat to the united state. topics for attacking the communist party include smear attacks in the media, planting evidence to suggest that party leaders are informants. plant evidence and hope someone else comes along and sees and believes that they are an informant. creating an organization to attack the party from the left, creating further dispute. they create these fake organizations to foster dissent. my personal favorite of these, operation hoodwinked. send false documents to provoke a fight between the co

energy industry are the ones that probably the most as its peoples section, it's the people like khrushchev who is constantly to the region looking at these types of issues in terms of security and what needs to be done to achieve russia's national strategy goals in the region itself. another person that i mentioned is brad cole. both father and son deeply involved. and that might very well give you an indicator of who in moscow when it comes to sanctions and sanctions busting may be added an advantage here. these are all so the key who runs this off and it is within the context that they know best how to bust sanctions so i see them as being the ones that see in sanctions busting in moscow but what's more fascinating is what goals allies if you will succeed in that sanctions busting and how they can benefit from that were not as they tried to achieve their core goals throughout the region. thank you. >> about the politic nature of russia, the one of the largest companies in russia is not a subject section cannot be sanctioned because it applied on 40 percent of europe's gas but there is a

they also take a huge hit when in 1956 khrushchev comes to power in the soviet union reveals in fact all of the rumors about stalin's behavior are totally true. he was a tyrannical monster who murdered millions, who conducted show trials of his political enemies and people he thought might be his political enemies. right that is a huge effect in turning people away from the commune it party. nonetheless, hoover's obsession with the party keeps this going long past the point where cp usa is relevant. there's dissent in the ranks of the fbi because hoover will not let this go even though the party is well past the point where it poses any sort of conceivable threat to the united states. tactics for attacking cp usa include leaking smear tactics to the media. planting evidence to suggest that party leaders are informants, hope that someone else comes along and sees it and believes thee co-leader an fbi informant. creating a fake communist torsion attack the party from the marxist left. communists are at each other's throats, are you a marxist or a trotsky-ite? my personal favorite of th

khrushchev and eisenhower meeting with khrushchev, the zany trip across the united states on 1959. you can't improve on that for theater. the advent of the extraordinarily aggressive and powerful cia and under alan dulles. the introduction of new technologies into spy kraft and intelligence gathering. the space satellites of the 1960s, all of that is there for the presidential historian. in addition, of course, there's the domestic side and the presidential historian doesn't have the luxury of leaving one, big chunk of the presidency out. that's where the president lives, right in the middle of it all. brown versus board, up to the 1957 civil rights act. a crucial element that occupied a lot of eisenhower's time. layer on to that the red scare and mccarthyism at the beginning of his decade. also a couple of features on the home front that prove to be very important in eisenhower's life, which was the prominence and rise of kind of public ridge in the 1950s. and his own spirituality connected in interesting ways with the prominence -- the rise of prominent public figures from the cl

woman: khrushchev was now feeling very vulnerable. and castro... man: castro is getting angrier and angrier. pushed theheorld to trink of nuclear war in a battle to see who uld blink first. man: all three believed that oe the war started there would be no stopping it. "cuban missile crisis: three men go to war" starts right now on pbs. by contributions to your pbs station fr viewers like you. joiv kennedy: we happen to l in the most dangerous time in the history of the human race. man: i can so vividly remember my first flyov of cuba

to reverse an 8056 avoided a conflict over berlin in 1958 and establish personal relations with khrushchev it all of these were choices that could have gone a different way. and every time he made a choice to diffuser use restraint all of those could have easily become a war. eisenhower worked hard to keep the peace between us for powers but he was no pacifist the global strategy require the accumulation of national power and a willingness to deploy that power unnecessarily the u.s. nuclear arsenal the word in the eisenhower years a few hundred weber weapons at the beginning of his term to 20000 by the end and all manner of platforms the b-52 bombers the undersea missile by the time he left office united states had plans for launching 3200 nuclear weapons at over 1000 of russia and china and eastern europe in the event of your war. you can use the term restraint and said he did not pursue orbit did not restraint -- restraint is capabilities of building out built united states into a military colossus never before seen on this had an effect in the mobilization of science and industry all pu

settled in khrushchev. called for peace slim unity you know island harare is getting back to normal after wednesday's violence but something that tensions could rise challenges the results in court. but then god will have to be a president for all zimbabweans but many zimbabweans will need convincing he was robert mugabe's defense minister during the massacres when thousands were killed and the fact that. some of the issues of. its perception of. the president is promising a fresh start but changing decades of in chancer patient in state institutions. will take time. and when i go will have to persuade the international community that seems like this and now a thing of the past so as to not to promise a political economic performance how do we toss al-jazeera. china says it may impose tariffs on a further sixty billion dollars worth of american goods as foreign ministry says the new levies will go into force if the u.s. follows through on its threats to impose more tariffs on his own u.s. accuses china of u

that arrived there within seconds of that khrushchevjumping arrived there within seconds of that khrushchevtting to this vehicle and arresting this 29—year—old man. so, the forensics continued in, they will be there for some time. the whole area is cordoned off. it is a crime scene. investigators trying to find clues as to exactly what happened. let‘s get more now on the news that the struggling diy retailer homebase is set to close a further 42 stores, putting about 1,500 jobs at risk. the restructuring company hilco, which bought the chain for £1 in may, says that the current number of outlets is no longer viable. well, we can speak now to maureen hinton, who is research director for globaldata, the business consultancy, which has a specialism in retail. what do you put this down to? there isa what do you put this down to? there is a lot going on in the high street a nyway is a lot going on in the high street anyway but i think that what happened is that the company which bought homebase completely reversed the strategy they had which was to try and differentiate itself from the major pla

starts with the korean war, and it moves on to the indochina issues, sputnik in the arms race, khrushchev and eisenhower, the advent of the extraordinarily aggressive and powerful cia. the introduction of new technologies into spy craft and intelligence gathering, the space satellites of the 1960s, all of that is here for the presidential historian. in addition, of course, there's the domestic side. the presidential historian doesn't have the luxury of leaving one big chunk of the presidency out. you have to get it all in there because that's where the president lives, in the middle of it all. little rock, up to the 1957 civil rights act is a crucial element that occupied a lot of eisenhower's time. the red scare in mccarthyism as well, also a couple of futures on the homefront that proved to be very important in eisenhower's life in the way that he governed, which was the rise of public religion in the 1950s and his own spirituality connected and -- connected in prominent ways with clergy across the spectrum from martin luther king jr. to billy graham and other popular figures in that wo

he will debate khrushchev toe to toe. so here's a dude who is known to be hard core. so what? why does that matter? go ahead, brother. >> you can't be hard core against communism but then lose to communism. you lose those bona fides you've worked so hard to build. >> how does it give you -- he's saying you lose your credibility. >> you've already set your heart on communism. you're saying this is not essential to our task to defeating communism. vietnam is not essential. we could win other ways or if he goes with vietnamization, you know, it's not our responsibility to always defend communism. it's up to you to help do it. he has some wiggle room to say that because he's already showed he's done it correctly. >> to large extent, it's that. have you heard the saying, only nixon could go to china? it's sort of part of this. if you have sterling credentials as being a bad guy, that gives you a little bit more wiggle room to do it, and nixon's going to use that. when he comes into office, read that first one there. i think that's sort of interesting. the madman theory. what do you