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Prickly. in 1953, the transition from truman to eisenhower had been challenging. >> truman said eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. >> the relationship between the democrats and republicans were so cold that the eisenhower chose to sit in their car, instead of of accepting an invitation to come to the white house for a pre-inauguration public coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming another democrat, the young, vital, john f. kennedy he hoped to set an example in handing over the presidency. not that the president liked everything kennedy had said, in partic...

E-mail, it is eight years going back of persistent efforts by foreign governments and others to get into our government and private sector computer systems. look at the chinese hack of opm personnel records, millions of records of americans working for the federal government basically stolen by beijing. what did we do about that? i don't know. patiently nothing. >> nothing. yeah, nothing. you're right, this is a far greater and far sweeping problem that needs to be addressed. just the abysmal lack of any kind of cyber security in this country is really woefully inadequate, and you see people a...

Been this brazen. if you go back to 1960, this has happened before. jfk winning by talking about a missile gap created by eisenhower and nixon but never created. it was a lie. they knew it was a lie but it was effective. it was nixon in '72, not '68 but '72 that talked about his secret peace plan with vietnam. of course three or four years later they asked about the secret peace plan and he said there was never a secret peace plan. politicians do lie. perhaps this is more jarring because it happens in real time and happens so quickly. >> i think it's more concerning for us today because it's n...

Letting the russians get ahead of us in missiles. >> it frightens people. it's not true. but it frightens people, and it's very effective in the campaign. >> i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we're ahead of you in color television. i think that missiles are more important than television. >> the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. ♪ >> le...

>> it frightens people. it's not true. but it frightens people and it's very effective in the campaign. >> i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but we're ahead of you in color television. i think that color television is not as important as rockets. >> the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth, it would have been a different election. >> let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or...