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clay's. check point charlie. on october 22nd, when alane lightener was trying to go to easter be lin to watch the opera he was stopped demanding additional identification which he wouldn't show. clay was notified. he sent a squad of soldiers. they escorted him in and out. american soldiers could go through that check point and east germans had no authority to stop them. in fact, within 24 hours the east germans were no longer at the check point. there were just soviets there manning it. they were not going to take a chance. now a week earlier, clay had sent kennedy a cable, which i s...

so what comes to mind is an extraordinary individual capable of great good and -- and who created -- helped create the vietnam tragedy. it's a very interesting pairing of success and failure in this man. c-span: why did you want to do this? >> guest: oh, i don't know. i had done a lot of defense writing as a reporter for science magazine and as a free-lance writer. and i had done a lot of reporting on arms control. and i came at it, in a sense, through the mathematics analytic side. i also came very much to realize that my whole generation, the baby boomer generation, really were aff...

one was mac bundy. one was dean rusk. secretary of state. he said to clay, you shouldn't react to everything that the soviets and east germans do. you should only react when they affect our vital interest. nobody who exactly what that meant. in any case, clay did not listen to him. the british prime minister, harold mcmillan who wanted us out of berlin and told kennedy that, called clay a senile and bitter old ass, which was not exactly a term of endearment. but which reflected the british policy. i wonder whether the documents that you're releasing shows some of this because the bri...

you can see there, west berlin is pail white. east berlin is matching the contours of east germany and the checkpoint charlie which i'll talk about and then, of course, the other checkpoint bravo with which we use only one time in this particular exercise. the berlin crisis began in 1958, when krusef said sign a peace treaty for berlin and germany and 5u8 the rights that the allies have enjoyed will pass to the gdr, the german democratic republic because they're the ones who are suffering in berlin and what he called the gdr. and if they do not agree, if the allies do not agree to si...

voices, so many books. >> is she the only child that you have? >> in a way the only way. in another way i have thousands of children all over the world. >> she came a little late in life for you, didn't she? >> not for me. i'm just beginning to live. when i'm 100 years old, come visit me and i'll tell you more storie stories. >> and are you going to stay here you think for the rest of your life? >> i couldn't say at the moment. but i would love to. i love paris. i love the bookshop and it's such a great opportunity to meet diverse people and it's a fantastic place. i love acting and ...