these were the old teletype, asr-33 teletypes with paper tape, and my father had the good thought to for our house, which was highly unusual at the time, so i was spent eveningld spend every working and reprogramming and so forth. today of course if i were a 15-year-old, at home i would have five personal computers and the super network and sound blaring out of the speakers. david: you went to high school in virginia. you must have done pretty well to get into princeton? eric: yes, although it was easier back then. david: you knew you wanted to be an engineer at princeton? eric: i actually applied to princeton as an architect, and when i got to princeton, i discovered i was not a very good architect, but i was a much better programmer. princeton again was kind in that i was advanced enough that i could be able to skip the introductory courses and go straight into the advanced courses and then the graduate courses. david: you must've done pretty well because you then got a scholarship to go to berkeley and get your phd. was it hard to move across the country? eric: no, but to give you

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hotline and teletype to ussia, he, the daily security briefing, the navy seals, the get beret, he wanted to better information, those were important bay the time we got to crisis, his sile brothers and others kept us from hat could have been a tens of millions of people could have been affected by that. service. for your host: guest is graduate of williams college, boston, rtheastern in talking with steven rothstein, executive director of the j.f.k. foundation, i realize this is a what-if question, as well. the chance to ask president kennedy one question about his years in the white would it be? be a i think it would five-part question, because there wouldn't be just one. terms of thinking about the impact, you know. ould he have known that today there would be people in peace corps serving all over the country? corps would have led americorp and of other things, this idea service is needed today more than others and what would be his advice. northkingsley, charlotte, carolina, good morning. caller: good morning. what i would like to mention, discussion ute to is -- i was the day kenned

and then, they got the teletype saying that for the first and only time a speech of an american presidentplete page of pravda, the party newspaper. >> khrushchev decided to change his world policy. the strategy of creating tension all around the american empire was dropped. and he said to his colleagues, you know what? let's give him the test ban treaty. >> the united states, the soviet union and great britain promise to end all nuclear test explosions in the atmosphere, outer space and underwater. >> big deal soviet union, the same as united states. and khrushchev was very proud that they stopped testing and poisoned atmosphere. >> man's long hopeful quest for peace will cease to be only a dream and will begin to acquire solid reality. >> the nuclear test ban treaty is one of the truly great achievements of the kennedy presidency. >> we shall not regret that we have made this clear and honorable national commitment to the cause of man's survival. for under this treaty, we can and must still keep our vigilant defense of freedom. you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they