you see very little candid photographs -- forget millard fillmore. harry truman, it all had to be arranged and posed. not kennedy. man, he looed it. and then -- he loved it. and with television he found his medium. the press conferences were, they were works of art. how many press conferences do our modern presidents have? they avoid them like the plague because they're going to be asked -- kennedy had more press conferences in his first year than all the ten presidents before him, and the hottest ticket in town was to get in there and see a press conference, and they lined up a along the street trying to get in. so he used that to his advantage. >> moving right along. >> yes. [laughter] >> from our vantage point 50 years on and two decades since the berlin wall fell, the most significant exchange of letters in terms, in my evaluation of it was really between the president and prefer -- premier khrushchev of the soviet union, particularly in terms of the cuban missile crisis. can you give us a sense of what that time was like and, more importantly, h