the president of the usia was edward r. murrow. whose name you all know. a great man. he happened to be in berlin at the time and he went into east berlin, looked around, and that's why he sent the cable to kennedy. the american people were very upset. kennedy had to do something. he called a man whose name he knew called lucius clay. general lucius clay. he had run the berlin air lift in 1948 and 1949. he was a prominent republican. more responsible than anybody else for the nomination for general president eisenhower. he wanted somebody from the other party to be with him. and he asked clay what he should do. clay said, this is a very serious moment. you have to do something. you have to react. if you don't react, they will just keep piling in. what should i do, kennedy said? what you should do, clay said, is send extra brigade to west berlin to show that we take this seriously. every one of kennedy's soviet advisors from borland on down said, don't do this, it's very dangerous. it is a provocation. khrushchev will react. the brigade will not get through. kennedy ove

and the other person was the man we all know who was in the director of usia whose name i can't think of right now. i think it was -- i'll come back to it in a minute. they said to kennedy, this is something we cannot tolerate. this is something we have to do something about. he sent a message to kennedy what is dying here is that precious quality called "hope." this made kennedy come up alert. these were the kinds of people he respected. much more than the state department people. and if they were getting nervous and said she had to do something, then maybe he did. then he found out the white house press room and the white house mail room was receiving lots of black on brothers, saying that kennedy was like that. he couldn't take it. so he decided to do something. incidentally, the person who was the head of us i6789 a at the time was edward armareaux, he happened to be in berlin at the time and he came up. the american people were very upset. kennedy had to do something. so he called a man whose name he knew call lucias clay who ran the berlin airlift in 1948 and 1949, a prominent r