or let's meet at lenin. better be sure which lenin you mean.of lenins. >> reporter: in 25 years here, he was an anchorman, a political correspondent, a feature writer. he had amazing range. in 1990, iraqi troops chose to surrender to dick threlkeld. >> we gave them a brisk unprofessional frisking and army rations and water. >> pelley: a reporters' reporter writing with speed and accuracy, delivery insight. >> right up to the end the americans really believe that it might all end peacefully in saigon if we could just give an ha know-- t government we thought they wanted instead of a government we wanted. as usual in southeast asia, we were wrong, but we hung on in saigon perhaps too long because it was so hard to believe that the day might finally come when the south vietnamese-- our allies, our south vietnamese-- would simply order us to pack up and get out. richard threlkeld, cbs news, aboard the u.s.s. "hancock." >> pelley: dick was 74. he's survived by his wife, the former cbs news correspondent betsy aron, two children and two grandchildren

lenin? related. so i put a picture of lenin and said i like that. right before the show begins, i like to psyche everybody out. if you're not clapping, i tell you to leave. you come in and burst through the tunnel and say i'm cramer, that's what we do every night. >> my next job, i want to come back as one of your stagehands. >> you'd love it. we have fun. we love it. we throw these things. there. we con staptly throw stuff. >> the guy is great. you can catch his show, mad money, every weekday at 6:00 p.m. and 11 p.m. eastern on cnbc. thank you very much for the good time, jim. >>> in a moment, the big three panel weighs in on the issues propelled newt gingrich to victory in south carolina. can he score big in florida? now the mitt romney has agreed to release two of his tax returns, will that make the difference? you're watching "weekends with alex witt." this is a look at your sunday forecast. we're watching more wet weather on the west coast. our weather pattern is taking a swing for the

reflected upon that when you have a communist party of russia they still hear bring out lenin and they talk about marx and all that and it does it you know twenty years after the fact it gets appeal to most russians young russians is. may i say yes but i don't think this exactly as analogy will if you're gonna yeah you're in charge exactly and terry jeffrey go ahead. well i don't think this is really about communism a tool communism wasn't involved in the coup remember the coup plotters in their declaration never mention marx or lenin or communism they talked about the integrity of the soviet union and one has to remember that whilst many other non russian nations welcomed liberation from the soviet union the russians saw it as a deprivation and the russian communist party really represents two strands in russians thinking about their own country it represents of course soviet imperialism but it also represents the russian orthodox church the promise love me understanding of russia's history and it's an uneasy combination of the two and that's one reason why it hasn't really been all t

him immediately rational he also said you would turn the kremlin into museum what would you do about lenin would you keep him there like a mummy in a pyramid or bury him my attention or presence personally i think lenin should be buried but this should be done respectfully with regard to the people who disagree but i would hold a referendum on the shooter a little i don't think the next question is a referendum people often ask you whether you're going to get married or not i only ask about this because of protocol i really done now is in the president we take a look at russia's history russia has never had a single president or a single leader you say you're waiting for the love of a lifetime but your love of a lifetime may come tomorrow or in ten years and you want to be president today are you ready to get married if this helps you become president of pickle for more than oh of course not if you put it like that i genuinely believe in love and i really hope it comes to me sooner or later i work a lot and perhaps i don't give enough time. other things including dating i guess my work tak

without the lenin in florence for nine years and in my experience russians like not only the architectural and cultural beauty of the city that also enjoy shopping here a lot especially for not a good receiver ideas that. would make is the hometown of michelangelo and to the venture they spent a lot of time living and working in this region of italy the art and culture that have created and contributed influenced many outstanding russians who came to florence for inspiration and stayed here for a while for which there are many ways talented and skilled italians enriched machine cultural life and vice versa over the centuries italian architect a huge influence in the design of moscow and st petersburg. well the other great things about florence is the shopping. pastime of many russian tourists prices are lower here for designer goods than back home although this next luxurious pretty well it might be better not to look at the price tags. here in the main shopping street of florence you can find a designer boutique a brand that was founded at the beginning of the twentieth century by a russi

but then i ran across a piece from lenin, vladimir lenin, the leader of the russian revolution, where he talked about dreaming. and he basically said ain't nothing wrong with dreaming as long as your dreams come from a basis of reality, and they are big dreams, but then you're constantly measuring the difference between your dreams and reality and working to narrow that distance. by bringing reality in line with what you're -- but also bringing your dreams back in line with reality because if you dream in awe somewhat, you might have to readjust those dreams because what you're thinking about can't be realized. and once i came across that, i was, hey, dreaming ain't so bad. >> with the content of the dream because you can have fascist dreams -- [laughter] you know what i mean? patriarchal dreams, homophobic dreams. [laughter] but for me this issue of love and hatred tied to the systemic analysis of power because crucial, you know, george bernard shaw used to say hatred is coward's revenge against those who intimidate you. so hatred's always -- [inaudible] but at the same time if you h

he became the foreign minister of the sandinistas, and he won the lenin peace prize. he's a classmate of mind, catholic. so, no, i did not agree with him back then and i don't agree with him, obviously, now. >> host: and how would you define a corporatist? >> guest: i would say corporatists, these fellas, a lot of the lobbyists here in d.c., both white houses. they're down here in d.c., and they will do what the corporate boss tells them. let me tell you a story again. you know, i came out of the nixon white house, and there was an issue, and you probably were involved in it. toshiba, the japanese company, had taken this super quiet technology we had for our submarines where they could move even into soviet ports and move back out undetected. and they had access to it, and they turned it over to the soviet union. and i thought the congress ought to come down on them with both feet. and i found out that guys i'd worked with in the next -- [inaudible] were representing toshiba up there. and that's where, i mean, that's the parting line for me. >> host: well, in the book

but then i ran across a piece from vladimir lenin, leader of the russian revolution, where he talked about dreaming. and he basically said ain't nothing wrong with training, as long as your dreams come from a basis of reality and they are big dreams, but then you're constantly measuring the difference between your dream than reality and working to narrow that distance by bringing reality in line with what you're doing, but also bring your dreams back in line with reality because if you dream company might cut to readjusts the strings because what you think about can be realized. once i came across that i said hey, dreaming a so bad. >> the fascist dreams. >> yes. you know what i'm saying. [laughter] but for me, the love and hatred type two the power because pregnant cherries to say hatred is their revenge against those who intimidate you. so it's always this b.c.'s, always with a beautiful person. at the same time, if you hate injustice and go with martin and the other state that had to do with love. part of the problem these days is we don't have enough people, especially for young