khrushchev into united states and nikita khrushchev was my father and i am rgei khrushchev. and many interesting things in ther political discussion. it wasn't very serious talk,ut also many finer things. and peter found all these funny things that he pulled them together in this book, showing how can present the political person in the contemporary way. and when i try to think at that time what i am feel, and my father, for us it was like christopher columbus discovery of america. and we discovered america for ourselves. we knew about america, but what we knew, america is very different. we knew something that we learn from mark twain of the 19th century american. and this new world and we trie to find out how it looks like. i found this book very interesting, but i'm just one of the detail of this book of the story. but from that aside, my first wish was why he wrote this? 50 years ago, visit from one little, one country to the united states. i think maybe thousands others at stake here. khrushchev was consenting, but others are eccentric also. president yeltsin was more e

the granddaughter of nikita khrushchev weighs in on the controversy. >>> and it's off to rome for part two of our "signature series," "preserving history." restoring ancient ruins is a noble goal, but who's going to pay for it? >>> from the world's leading reporters and analysts, here's what's happening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible in part by the following funders -- major support has also been provided by the peter g. peterson foundation, dedicated to promoting fiscal responsibility and addressing key economic challenges facing america's future. >>> good evening. i'm daljit dhaliwal. yesterday we told you about a united nations investigation which found that both israel and hamas had committed war crimes during last winter's war in gaza. today, reaction to the report has been swift and it has been strong. united nations investigators are now callinupon israel and hamas to conduct their own independent inquiries into the allegations. if not, the team is recommending that the case be sent to an international war crimes tribunal. israel has rejected that cal

more detail we're pleased toe joined once again by nina khrushcheva, she's the granddaughter of nikita khrushchev. yo grandfathewas the one who first condemn josef stalin, yet 50 year on what do you mke of this continug rehabilitation of stalin? >> stalin made rsia great. he turned a peasant untry, as the legend goes, into a great industrial nation. and russians who were after '91, after the collapse of communism felt very much unappreated by everybodaround them. they felt that they wre the victimof history a all of a suen president puti came back and brought that greatne back to russia. and his predecessor was legedly josef stalin aboutp we love him for that toda >> right. and his so of enduring aeal for the arage russia woulde what? >> a i said, i men, it's all about e russian greatness. ssia is very big on its grandiose position in the world. it considers itself a serate civilizati civilizationrussians like to think of themselves this way they believe wit stalin and with puin tod, they were brought back -- theyow have the world position they rightly they belie, deserve. >>ust recently alsandr

. >> we're back discussing the peter carlson book "k blows top" when nikita khrushchev came to the united states and it's a very interesting book and i advise everybody to read this and we talk about funny stories but it was not only true of the united states. that it was very important because when we look -- when i read about president roosevelt, when he traveled around the united states and looking from the windows and he tried understanding how people dealing, how they look in their backyards. khrushchev did the same thing, talking to people. the soviet union lived under the fear that americans can attack us every moment. >> well, we lived under the fear that the soviet union could attack us. >> yes. but it was discussion in the congress. it was part of this negative thing of democracy, how many cities we have destroyed, how many weapons we have. and the strategic air force until it's too late we have to attack the soviet union. why understand iranians now when we attacking their nuclear sites and allow israel to attack this and when khrushchev toured this we're looking at the prepara

. >> a lot of us live around here, and i believe it was 50 years ago that nikita khrushchev made an addressthe president made and said we don't even have to take you militarily. we will do it through your children. we will take away god and make them communists, 50 years ago. glenn: bill o'reilly has talked to me about this several times and he said "glenn, you're worried about communism and all of this stuff, and i don't see this as a threat because communism has been discredited," et cetera, et cetera. >> people who don't know history and don't understand what communism is, and when we go to socialism, socialism is communism light. people don't know that. you wouldn't believe how many high schools' children as well as young college kids don't know what socialism is. i found somebody say to me and i found it absolutely frightening, i'm all right with socialism. that's because they have never lived under it and don't know the history. >> glenn, i think they don't understand it, and also, the message goes out to adults and children that there is a lot to apologize for about america. glenn: l

is this another one of those moments like nikita khrushchev?talking about the devil -- president bush, you but chavez talked about the devil. eric, what you know? >> highly unusual, a wealth that it and choreograph the moment, muammar quaddafi remained in his seat, which was highly unusual. he would be the next speaker after obama. they would bring him to a holding room, normally, behind the podium. it was perhaps designed not to have that happen. there were efforts to prevent the president from eating quaddafi or ahmadinejad. you would think that the colonel, scheduled to be the next speaker, would have already been prepared behind the podium era at some of the door of vari -- quaddafi gaddafi is following the general assembly. by coincidence, this year that happened to be libya, which is why quaddafi is the next speaker after the president of the united states. at the luncheon that is being given by the secretary general, 12:15 to 12:30, frank a. there will be nothing stopping quaddafi or ahmadinejad from getting next to president obama

organized vice president richard nixon's so-called kitchen table debate with the soviet union's nikita khrushchev. years later, it was safireworking as one of the nixon's white house speechwriters, who gave us the phrase nattering nabombs of negativism used by spiro agnew. he earned the presidential medal of freedom in 2006 and made him a frequent guest on "meet the press." >> it was quite a moment. you do get to bring your whole family. >> reporter: the deep respect he earned in washington was a far cry from 1993, when he joined the times and was rejected as a nixon apoll gist. by 1988 he had taken home a pulitzer for commentary. his last op-ed column was called "never retire" and he never did. his new york times feature "on language," a dissection of the words and phrases we use and so often misuse continued up until this month. in describing his job, safire always had just one word, pundit. >> and pat buchanan, i just noticed that we have a lot of coverage in "the washington post," and this is on b8 in "the new york times." >> "the washington post" had a much longer story on page 1. safire was