nikita khrushchev was waiting, also, for talks to explore such issues as berlin, nuclear testing and us what you think about this meeting between the young president and khrushchev? >> well, i think it was long overdue because the world needs peace and the world needs disarmament. >> for khrushchev, it is a chance to test the new president on the subject of berlin, khrushchev is tough and blunt. >> khrushchev said west berlin is a bone in my throat. and we must extract it. >> berlin, of course, is divided at the end of world war ii. but berlin is 110 miles inside of the east german zone. khrushchev is threatening to force the integration and take over west berlin and kennedy says to him, berlin is part of our western commitment and world war ii. don't challenge us there. >> after two days, the talks end. >> kennedy did not do well. he allowed himself to be caught in an ideological argument with khrushchev. he'd been warned against it. he did it anyways and khrushchev bullied him and pushed him around. >> khrushchev has made the first move in the chess game. and the president knows it

and nikita khrushchev made that happen. so, we have come a long way and the person who has watched that journey is simeon booker. simeon booker, ladies and gentlemen, if you do not know, jet magazine would not be jet magazine without simeon booker and his piece. [applause] joe: and his wife, carol, is right beside him and let's give her a round of applause. [applause] joe: now, first of all thank you for being here. let's get to this, you were on the committee that actually decided to invite dr. mlk to be the speaker, to the best of your recollection, what went on in that meeting? what was it like? and carol, you can fill in, because i know you have an extensive paragraph in his autobiography about that meeting, but what you remember, simeon? simeon: [indiscernible] carol: what do you remember about the decision to invite dr. king? he did remember when he wrote this book. he has asked me to -- joe: let's see if this might jar his memory. carol: and 97, memory fades with every day. this is from "shocking the conscience." sim

[applause] >> years ago nikita khrushchev made a statement that he would defeat us from within and the schools, institutions, government everything has come to place burkett -- [inaudible] we have a social 20 flies office of the land which i hope you have instead of him. and so the pendulum issued on their side. will would you do to cause the pendulum to come back without taking away i religious choices and our freedom of speech? >> so, that's a great question because in your bones you know we are losing something vital in this nation. you know we are at a perilous time and it's exactly to the point of the character of our nation, the foundation of our nation, the possibilities represented by this nation. first thing on a i'm doing is running for president. the first thing you can do is vote for me on tuesday not to make sure everybody you know votes for me. we have got the right leader in the white house, okay? secondly on this blueprint, restore the character of our nation. stand her life and religious liberty. religious liberty is under assault in this nation. i really was struck by

khrushchev nikita had the following to say. now a word about national liberation war. the armed struggle by the enemies people with the war of the algerian people serve as the latest example of such wars. these are revolutionary wars. such wars are not only admissible, but inevitable. can such wars flare up in the future? they can. the commonest only support -- commonest fully support such wars and march in the front lines of people waiting such a struggle. chief of the in north vietnamese forces has made the following comment, south vietnam as a model of the national liberation movement of our times. if the special warfare that the united states imperialist are testing in south vietnam is overcome, then it can be defeated anywhere in the world. the minister of defense of coming as china and a long statement of policy on september 1965 described in detail how utilizen't -- expect to the war of liberation to expand coming is an and latin america, africa, and asia. these testimonials show that apart from the goal of an posing on 15 million south vietnamese, the success o