the cataclysmic earthquake that most experts say is almost certain to happen, although no one can predict exactly where or when. john blackstone will be reporting our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: in california the statewide earthquake drill known as the great shakeout took on extra urgency this year. and not just because of recent big quakes in haiti, chile and china. >> the san andreas fault is locked and loaded and ready to rumble. >> reporter: california braces for the big one later on sunday morning. >> osgood: julie and david are two people from two first families. together they formed the union that stood the test of time. mo rocca this morning they'll be looking back. >> here is the bride. >> reporter: when david eisenhower married julie nixon, it was the union of two of the most famous political names of the 20th century. >> i felt like i was on her side. i think she felt she was on my side. right away. automatically. >> reporter: now they've written a book about david's grandfather dwight david eisenhower. later on sunday morning, when granddad is a five-star general and two-term president. >> osgood: the eisenhower administration was still a quite recent memory when keith richards first started making music with the rolling stones. all these years later keith richards is still gathering no moss and talking this morning with our anthony mason about his amazing life and high times. >> it's a fascinating thing, this life. ♪ time is on my side > keith richards' bucaneering life has made him rock's archetypal outlaw. for nearly 50 years he's been a rolling stone and mick jagger's side kick. how would you describe your professional partnership? >> i've never considered myself or him professional quite honestly. >> reporter: at home with keith. the man and the myth. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: everybody in the world has a story. this morning our steve hartman will be proving that again and again and again. >> lift-off. >> reporter: it started as this crazy idea. we thought, wouldn't it be neat if we could get nasa to fly an inflatable globe into space, which they did, and then got an astronaut to spin the globe and point to some random places which he did. and then went to those places and tried to interview picked randomly from the phone book. which i did. would those people think we were nuts? or would they tell usth stories? the answer is both. >> at first i thought it was a prank call. >> reporter: i'll show you the remarkable earthlings i found purely by chance all throughout this sunday morning. >> osgood: we'll have those reports and more but first here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 24th of october, 2010. health workers are struggling to keep up with a widening cholera outbreak in haiti. more than 200 people have died. nearly 3,000 others have been infected. the epidemic has now spread to the capital port-au-prince. even as the pentagon condemns the release of a huge cache of secret iraq war logs, we're learning more about the disclosures and one of the most disturbing is about the human toll to innocent iraqis. here's national security correspondent david martin. >> reporter: the iraq war logs are written in dispassionate military jargon, but they tell a heart-wrenching story. >> almost every log tells a story. far too often this is a previously unknown story of human suffering and death. >> reporter: this man runs an organization called iraq body count which has tried to keep track of all the deaths. the wikileaks documents are his best hope for a full accounting. >> we estimate when fully analyzed these logs will bring to public knowledge more than 15,000 previously unreported civilian deaths. >> reporter: by his count 150,000 people have been killed in iraq since 2003. 80% of them civilians. the wikileaks documents will enable him to attach names to those numbers. >> we already found over 100 previously reported civilian victim names in the logs we've examined. we estimate that many thousands more will be discovered as analysis proceeds. >> reporter: that, he says, would give victims of this war the proper recognition they deserve. for sunday morning, this is david martin at the pentagon. >> osgood: in the baseball play-offs the san francisco giants are national league champions after defeating the phillies in philadelphia last night 3-2. the giants will host the first game of the world series wednesday night against the american league pennant-winning texas rangers. and a social note from india. pop singer katy perry and british comedian rustle brand have tied the knot there. they were wed yesterday at a tying every reserve. an event that included a procession of 21 camels, elephants and horses. their wedding celebration is expected to last six days. these days some marriages don't last that long. here's the day's weather across the country. storms will roll eastward from the plains. more rain will fall in the northwest. the days ahead promise typical late october weather. some showers, some sun, and the days are getting shorter and cooler. ahead, keith richards on life as a rolling stone. >> how would you describe your professional partnership? >> i've never considered myself or him professional quite honestly. >> reporter: (laughing). >> osgood: but first bracing for the big one in california.,, [ ehrlich ] four years ago unemployment in maryland was under four percent. today, it's nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we're heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can't afford. fix our health care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o'malley can't do it. i will. the big one is california shorthand for a most powerful earthquake. it can be predicted with certainty but not much precision. therefore, it can only be prepared for imprecisely. our sunday morning cover story is reported now by john blackstone. >> this is an earthquake drill. >> reporter: on thursday, millions of people in california took shelter under tables and desks, protecting themselves from an earthquake, an imaginary earthquake. >> we're going to get this taken care of, okay. >> reporter: in this annual drill called the great california shakeout, californians practice responding to the injuries and destruction that are certain when the big one hits. officials like san francisco's mayor gavin newsome say it's a civic duty to be prepared. >> look, if you're going to move out to california on the west coast, you're going to live not just in one earthquake zone but three, you've got to take that seriously. you have an obligation to take it seriously. >> reporter: the seriousness of earthquakes has been obvious this year. tragically obvious. the magnitude 7.0 quake that destroyed so much of haiti in january was one of the deadliest ever, killing more than 220,000 people. a month later one of the most powerful earthquakes in a century, a magnitude 8.8 hit chile. better building standards limited the damage. still, 370,000 homes were destroyed and at least 520 people killed. in april, a 6.9 damaged 15,000 buildings in southern china and killed 2700 people. >> this has been a busy year by any standard. >> reporter: professor of geo physics at cal tech says where a quake hits could be at least as significant as how big it is. closest california got to a notable quake this year is the 7.2 that rocked mexico's baja peninsula in april. >> if you took that same earthquake and moved it to, say, into an urban area, we'd still be talking about earthquakes in california. it would have been a very damaging event. but it was in the middle of the desert. >> reporter: for those concerned about keeping californians earthquake ready, it might be said that nothing could be finer than an earthquake that is minor, a little rattle now and then keeps people on their toes. the trouble is, california's been unusually stable recently. experts are certain that won't last. >> basically the san andreas fault is locked and loaded and ready to rumble. >> reporter: thomas jordan is director of the southern california earthquake center. >> as a seismologist, of course, the longer we go without a big earthquake, the more nervous i get. because i know that over time we have to have earthquakes to relieve all of that energy that's being built up along the plate boundary. >> reporter: new calculations on the san andreas near los angeles show major quakes happen there more frequently than previously believed. and the next one could be as big as magnitude 8.0. >> the fact we haven't had an earthquake in this region for so long means our time is getting due. >> reporter: the most recent big quake in los angeles was the 1994 northridge quake. 57 people died. >> we're having an aftershock right now, people. >> it was the largest natural disaster before katrina that had country had ever seen. $40 billion in direct economic damage. >> reporter: it was a magnitude 6.7. and the kind of math that only seismologists fully understand, a magnitude 8 quake would be many times more powerful. >> it's hard to imagine but the big one that they're talking about would be something like 40, 50 times as destructive as the northridge quake. for anyone who has lived through the northridge quake that's an unimaginable kind of circumstance. >> reporter: this author wrote about how californians cope with earthquake in the myth of solid ground. >> people probably either get very scared or just sort of write it off which seems to be the two poles of psychological responses to these things. either they terrify you or you live in denial. >> reporter: in a magnitude 8 earthquake the shaking could last for a full minute. to appreciate what that could mean, consider the damage caused in the 15 seconds the ground shook in the san francisco bay area in 1989. >> 15 seconds and you can see what happened. >> reporter: at an oakland california park bill as a memorial to the '9 quake, david swartz of the u.s. geo logical survey remembers that for all the destruction, the epicenter of that quake was far away. >> 1989 was 70 miles south of the bay area proper. we think our mex big earthquake will occur right in the middle of the urban center. if you look at it that way, there are hills, the heyward fault runs at the base of the hills. >> reporter: the heyward fault is overdue. add the san andreas and a startling number of lesser known faults and the san francisco region is ripe for quakes. >> we're surrounded by faults. anywhere you go in the bay area. we jokingly like to say you can run but you can't hide. that's sort of the truth. >> reporter: the san andreas fault brought on the great san francisco earthquake of 1906. the violent shaking knocked down almost everything standing. the fire that followed ruined much of what was left. it's been estimated that 3,000 people died. that's the kind of quake, much bigger, much more destructive than the one in 1989, that seismologist figure could be on its way. >> we've estimated in the next 30 years a 63% chance, two out of three, that we'll have one or more magnitude 6, 7 or larger earthquakes. >> reporter: while earthquake sign tiffs can make estimates, what they can't do is make predictions. >> at one point people were very optimistic that we would come up with some systems to predict the earthquakes. the more we've studied the problem, the more we realize that it's a false hope. >> reporter: once the earth has started moving, scientists may be able to send an alert that shock waves are on the way. >> we call it earthquake early warning. it's based on the fact that earthquakes take a certain time to occur. they propagate along a fault. here in california we could get up to one minute of warning of a major earthquake on the san andreas fault before it was to shake downtown los angeles. >> it turns out almost all of our smart phones have got sis mom ters in them. >> reporter: scientists working on an early warning system hope one to day there's an app for that. >> if we can take the information from the smart phones and assemble it and send it back to some central place, then not only is your smart phone telling you what's coming but it's telling us what's happening where you are. >> reporter: a few seconds of warning is good. years of preparation better. in the past two decades, california has taken the lessons learned in the san francisco and northridge quakes to prepare for what could come next. >> the transportation system, the water pipelines crossing the faults. the bridges have been retrofited except for the bay bridge. not quite finished yet. >> reporter: the collapse of the bay bridge in the 1989 quake made it a symbol of the state's vulnerable infrastructure. the replacement bridge 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think the perils of canada's horse shoe falls would be obvious but that would be to underestimate annie taylor. a 63-year-old retired school teacher with a cat as her travel companion annie taylor set sail in her heavily padded barrel and miraculously survived suffering only a few bruises. i would caution anyone against attempting the feat she said afterwards. i would sooner walk up to the moun... the mount of a can non-knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the falls. would that others had followed her advice. in the years that followed at least 16 people are known to have attempted the feat. 11 survived. five did not. >> george is waving his last good-bye to the world which he will never see again. >> osgood: news reel cameras captured this 1930s attempt by george and his 105-year-old pet turtle. >> closer and closer he comes to the brink of the cataract. a long moment and he's over. the ride of death. >> reporter: he survived the fall. but suffocated inside his sealed barrel. the turtle survived. in 1990 jesse sharp attempted the plunge in a kayak. >> i called to my wife and said there's someone in a kayak out by the barge. i thought it was strange. he went right over the edge. >> reporter: the kayak was recovered. jesse sharp's body never was. seven years ago kurt jones of michigan went over with no sort of vessel or protective gear at all. somehow he survived with only bumps and bruises. >> i'm going to suggest he was probably happy to be alive. >> reporter: kurt jones was fined $2300 and banned from canada for life. which underscores a very important point. niagara stunts are against the law. punishable by up to a $10,000 as if one look at those falls wouldn't be disincentive enough. >> osgood: next, the right stuff. it's simple physics... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be 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there. >> reporter: once a developer of high-tech computer software, he now rescues low-tech tools of communication. working in his new hampshire studio. >> and if you look at this, it's better. the pen was probably dropped and came down on a desk or a floor like that. >> reporter: his specialty is the nib or the point which governs how a pen writes. >> fortunately this kind of thing isn't difficult to repair. >> reporter: not for him. no wonder he has a four-month backlog of work. turns out there aren't being nib doctors. so you're one of a few. >> i'm one of perhaps a half dozen in the world. >> what do you have? >> i have a bexley fine point. it's too broad and wet. >> reporter: though you may have never heard of him, he's a celebrity in the world of pens. yes, in this age of texting and email and throw-away ball points, there is a world of fountain pens. >> you can put so much care into your signature with a fountain pen that you can with a ball point. >> reporter: all on display at the annual washington pen show with 220 dealers, it's considered the biggest in the nation. >> they're just excited about pens. they come here to talk about pens. >> reporter: bob johnson who runs the show says there's a lot of pen history here starting with these from the late 1800s. they have no ink supply but must be dipped for each use. are those gold? >> oh, yeah, they're all gold. >> reporter: the first successful fountain pen with an ink supply inside is credited to louis waterman. he opened a factory in new york in 1883 and soon the whole country had a passion for pens. were there just scores of pen manufacturers? >> there were hundreds. >> reporter: rob morrison specializes in vintage fountain pens. >> writes very smoothly. made in the '30s by parker. >> reporter: but there are plenty of new ones here too. from some costing thousands of dollars. >> i own this one, this one, this one. i have this one. >> reporter: real estate developer kareem abdul salam says the pen show is better than football. >> i always win when i come here. (laughing). >> reporter: and his sub urban maryland home is filled with his trophies. a whole room devoted to his pen collection. there's one that pays homage to the da vinci code. several that celebrate the constellations. a whole section of pens in honor of writers. >> this one here is f. scott fitzgerald. >> reporter: sort of a jazz age looking pen. >> a 1920s jazz age pen. i've rewith black onickes. this is a 250-year-old bamboo. it's ebonite with a resin. and this pen here was about $14,000. this is one of one. it's a yellow jade with a purple jade on top. i have this one made specifically for me. he did a krystal but i loved the purple. and so i had him do one for me with the clear krystal. this right here has 18 karat gold feed. >> reporter: he recently added up what he spent on his 400 pens. >> when i saw the bottom number and it was over half a million dollars i was like what in the world did we do? >> reporter: but he says nothing beats the feel of a good fountain pen. and then there's the way friends react to his collection. >> it ranges from you must be nuts to i could have found a better use for that money. three is how do i get started? >> reporter: all you need is one. >> osgood: coming up lee child. man of mystery. and later.... >> so you were like the brad and and lean a of republican politicians' kids. >> osgood: at home with the eisenhowers. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: everybody in the world has a story or so our steve hartman maintains. all this morning he'll be making that point after first getting marching orders from out of this world. >> lift off. >> reporter: when we teamed up with nasa to explore the outer regions of conventional journalism we had a theory that we could find a compelling relateable story no matter where in the world astronaut jeff williams pointed which in this case is a city in central argentina called cordoba. it is argentina's second largest city with more than 1.3 million stories to choose from. of course, we're just here to tell. >> this one. 28-year-old sand row giovanni lives with his girlfriend. they've been dating four years. although i don't speak any spanish it was pretty obvious from the start that theirs is a very loving, playful relationship. (laughing) sandro's story on the other hand is anything but giggles. it begins long before his girlfriend. back when his whimsy and warmth was all anger and angst. sandro says when he was a teenager growing up on his parents farm he and his dad would argue constantly. >> ever since i was a young boy i was different from my dad or maybe we weren't different. maybe we were so similar we just bumped heads. >> reporter: his mom says the biggest battles were always over sandro's future. she says her husband pretty much insisted sandro take over the farm. >> but sandro said he wanted to be a writer. his dad said, you're crazy. i didn't raise you, bring you into this world to be a writer or anything else. >> reporter: the fights escalated until one day at the age of 16, sandro ran away from home. his dad was so fed up, he even helped him pack. sandro said he spent the next three nights in a boarding house living off a single apple. why not just say, dad, you win? i'm coming home. >> it was tough. i was young and pride played a big part. >> reporter: sandro lasted those three days and then three more. he made it a month. and then a year. his mom says she wanted to invite him back many times but his father wouldn't allow it. so sandro never returned. he got jobs and somehow survived. but here's the amazing part. even though sandro was working sometimes 16 hours a day, he still always made time for school. somehow he avoided the trappings of the trip-up of most run-aways and not only finished high school but next year he'll graduate from college. >> the moment i've been waiting for a long time. >> reporter: it has already taken him seven years working part-time jobs like the one he has now at a news stand. but sandro says his diploma will be well worth the sacrifice. his mother plans to be there for the graduation. but his father won't. sandro's dad died five years ago. suddenly before they ever had a chance to really make up. what would your dad think if he was at that graduation? >> i think he'd be happy. he would have realized many things about me. i really wish he could be there. >> reporter: it's understandable. i found this story a hemisphere away, but sandro says there's a message in it for teenagers everywhere. >> parents always want what's best for their children. and what may upset you sometimes is simply done out of love. >> reporter: likewise sandro says you parents need to understand that sometimes your children know themselves better than you do. take it from the soon to be college graduate who still plans to be a writer. >> osgood: next jack reacher, reaching for the best seller list. ♪ let's take a look at the stats. mini has more than double the fiber and whole grain... making him a great contender in this bout... against mid-morning hunger. honey nut cheerios is coming in a little short. you've got more whole grain in your little finger! let's get ready for breakfaaaaaaaaaast! 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>> what were the odds? well, myed dad, i remember him when i lost my job, he said what are you going to do? i said i'm going to write a book. he said, i'll lay you 10,000 to one it won't work. i guess that's pretty accurate. 10,000 to one. >> reporter: while his face may not be familiar, if you have been in a bookstore any time in the past decade or so, chances are you'd at least glance at one of these. because lee child is one of the hottest mystery writers around. his books jump straight to the best seller list. his 15 high octane thrillers have sold more than 40 million copies in 75 countries, translated into 38 languages. just a few days ago in new york city, crowds lined up to meet child and buy his latest book "worth dying for." >> thanks very much. >> reporter: lee, what kind of people are here? >> well, we've got about 1600 people who are writers, readers, publishers, editors, agents. >> reporter: at a mystery writers convention in san francisco earlier this month, the lean, affable englishman enjoyeded rock star status. >> thank you so much. i love your books. i have read everything you've written and love them all. >> are you the one? >> reporter: it's an astonishing success story. made even more amazing by the fact that but for a simple twist of fate, lee child may never have been born. your real name is jim grant. you change your name to lee child as an author. you're shedding one identity, assuming another,. >> it was like that. >> reporter: jim grant was born in england in 1954, the son of a civil servant. >> they had no money for luxuries but fortunately for me they didn't think of books as luxuries. they were that kind of family, that kind of generation that really revered education. >> reporter: that education paid off. he got a job in british television. for 18 years he worked behind the scenes on such high brow high profile project as bride's head revis ited and mysteries like prime suspect. >> you could have had three more days. >> i'll have him back inside. when i do he'll stay inside. no more loopholes this time. >> these guys on the other side of the camera. it was a great job. loved it. absolutely loved it. if i hadn't have been fired i would still be doing and still loving it. but i was fired. >> reporter: suddenly without a job at age 40 with a wife and young daughter to support, he made a leap of literacy faith. >> i thought, well, you know, i know the audience. i know how people think. i know what they want. let's try writing a book. >> reporter: so he sat down at his kitchen table with nothing more than a legal pad and this now well worn pencil. in five months jim grant, reborn as lee child, wrote his first novel. >> i was arrested in a diner at 12:00. i was eating eggs and drinking coffee. a late breakfast not lunch. i was wet and tired of a a long walk in heavy rain. all the way from the highway to the edge of town. that's the first line. i was arrested. the reader thinks, well, why? who are you? why were you arrested? what is going on? and those questions are what propels the book through the narrative. >> reporter: "killing floor" set in the united states, earned rave reviews. and introduced child's signature character. a 6'5" tall 250-pound ex-u.s. military policeman named jack reacher. as you described him in the book, he's a rock. >> yeah, he's a big guy. no vulnerabilities. he is who he is. he's confident. he's got the mental strength. he's got the physical strength. he's a force. in other words, he's the hammer. he's not likely to be the the nail. >> go ahead. make my day. >> reporter: like dirty harry and philip marlo, reacher is the latest incarnation of the noble loaner, strong, silent types who drift into trouble righting wrongs along the way. >> reacher is 100% confident. he walks into those situations, three bad guys, six bad guys. he knows they're going to lose. it's simply a question of are they going to be limping for a week or are they going to be in a wheelchair the rest of their lives? >> reporter: in the hands of this master craftsman jack reacher has become that rare literacy creation. with characters so well drawn he's inspired a cult following. >> go reacher! >> reporter: self-proclaimed reacher creatures. at the mystery writers convention, they were out in force. what do they like about reacher? >> oh, gosh. since this is my husband, i have to be careful what i say. >> you can't help but love reacher because he's the white knight that we all want. >> reporter: if you want to see what jack reacher might actually look like. take a look at 6'4"230-pound duncan monroe of australia. >> duncan monroe is jack reacher. >> reporter: he recently won a reacher look-alike contest. >> i'm absolutely over whel overwhelmed. >> reporter: in this pristine new york city apartment, child is already hard at work on reacher's next adventure. coffee and cigarettes close at hand. >> we stood under the glow of a yellow vapor light. >> reporter: he's living proof you can author whatever life you choose because in the end it's all a mystery. >> they'll beat you to death. i doubt it, i said. what are you going to do when those clothes get dirty? >> osgood: just ahead, the shape of things too,,,,,,,,,, today, it's nearly double. and nearly a quarter of a million marylanders are looking for work. in addition, we face a national health care plan that will hurt small business and cost us jobs. so we have to ask, are you better off today than you were four years ago? we're heading in the wrong direction. we need strong leadership. say no to things we can't afford. fix our health care plan. and refuse to raise taxes. martin o'malley can't do it. i will. >> it's happening this weekend. a video shows that literacy is off the wall. new york's guggenheim museum is using the curved exterior of its distinctive frank lloyd wright building as a back drop for you-tube play an exhibition of 25 homemade videos selected by an international jury as the best for more than 23,000 submitted. the outdoor show ended friday night, but the videos remain on view inside the museum through today. as well as on the you-tube website. the videos were produced by 39 artists from 14 countries and feature everything from the dream like stop action of bathtub 4 from australia to the animated musicality of birds on the wires from brazil. to the computerized multidexterity of sea weed from great britain. and a breakfast gone bonkers in the huber experiments from the united states. to highlight just a few. the scale and diversity of the display is dazzling all who pass by. if you can't make it to the guggenheim by tonight, do not despair. the videos and interviews with the artists will remain on view on you-tube. >> every time you hear camp david.... >> osgood: next.... >> do you go, that's me. >> osgood: meet the davids behind camp david. ,,,,,,,, women are charged 40% more for the same health insurance as men. domestic violence is treated as a pre-existing condition in eight states. women are abused by their husbands and then by their insurance companies. and last year they tried to end our coverage for mammograms and other preventive services. well i'm proud to say i got the law changed. i'm barbara mikulski. i approve this message so you'll know that being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. >> osgood: julie and david are are not one of those first name celebrity couples we keep hearing about all the time. for that they're grateful. still they both grew up with presidential last names. their family history is part of american history and they have memories and pictures to prove it. as our mo rocca will now show you. >> reporter: the boy in these photographs is david eisenhower. the older man is his grandfather, president and five-star general dwight david eisenhower. >> it's normal to look up to your grandfather but when your grandfather is a two-term president who led five million troops in the defeat of hitler, that's a big deal. >> it is a huge deal. i was aware of it at a very early age. >> reporter: were you scared of him a little bit? >> yes. i mean, i wanted to be at my best around him. i felt this underlying esteem and affection. >> soldiers, sailors and airmen. >> reporter: eisenhower. >> ...you are about to embark upon the great crusade. >> reporter: the supreme commander of allied forces in europe during world war ii. >> so help me god. >> reporter: who went on to serve eight years in the white house, went home 50 years ago with his wife mamie to their farm. in gettysburg, pennsylvania. it's really beautiful from every direction. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: he came here in retirement. >> right. >> reporter: but he wasn't really quiet here. >> no. i don't think that presidents are allowed to retire. >> reporter: and ike was not the retiring type. in going home to glory, the younger eisenhower describes his grandfather as restless post presidential life, raising cattle, advising his white house successors, and mentoring republican hopefuls including his vice president richard nixon. >> my first visit june 1, 1967. >> reporter: david's co-author is his wife julie nixon eisenhower. >> here is the bride looking every inch a fairy tale princess. >> reporter: you may remember that richard nixon's daughter married ike's grandson david. >> david and julie are looking, i would say, euphoric. >> reporter: uniting two very famous political names. >> all looking very happy indeed. >> reporter: you were like the brad and angelina of republican politician kids. >> heaven forbid, no. i hope we weren't that overexposed. we certainly weren't seeking it. that's for sure. >> certainly weren't. i was interested in julie. that was it. >> reporter: the two met as kids at ike's second inaugural in 1957. julie had had a sledding accident the day before. >> and i careened up and went into a tree. i had a really big black eye. the president leaned down to me, president eisenhower. he whispered, now, julie, you look this and they won't see your black eye. when we were engaged later, president eisenhower gave me this framed picture of that moment and he said to julie nixon who even then seems to have unwittingly gained an admirer. >> the ball is one of the highlights of the social season. >> reporter: they started dating in college when mamie eisenhower prodded david at amherst to call on julie seven miles down the road at smith. >> the appearance of david and julie at the society columns buzzing with speculation. >> reporter: this is the late '60s. the anti-war movement is at a fever pitch. you are young conservatives at liberal colleges. >> not that conservative. >> i wouldn't call myself a conservative. >> i would say a middle of the road republican. >> reporter: they say that neither they nor their name sake presidents were hard-line republicans. >> we may as well say what it is since we're not running for office. we'd never get elected today. nixon was considered a progressive republican. >> reporter: eisenhower goff governed in his own words as a middle of the roader. >> he was a very strongly principled man who was a moderate. moderate because he felt that american democracy required moderation. >> reporter: in their book published by simon and schuster a cbs company both authors insist the two men had a warm relationship. >> you've got the two command personalities bumping along together. what we always say is it's amazing they got along as well as they did. >> reporter: in the book you write that your father's feelings towards david's grandfather bordered on hero worship. >> i think so. it was very much a father-son relationship. because there was that much of an age gap. he credited eisenhower with allowing him to become a student of the world because eisenhower is an internationalist. ♪ >> reporter: dwight d.eisenhower died in march of 1969. he would not be able to advise the newlyweds or newly elected president nixon. >> at first it was called the watergate caper. >> reporter: during the crisis that would engulf them all. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> reporter:. >> so richard milhous nixon has resigned as the 37th president of the united states. >> reporter: the watergate years and the resignation. did that make your relationship stronger? >> long range i think it did. >> we survived. let's put it that way. i think it was a very difficult time. >> reporter: would you say it was traumatic? >> yeah, i think it was a very traumatic thing, the resignation. my father felt he let the country down. >> reporter: two different presidents would two very different leg aegss. eisenhower left office and left life as a highly admired figure. and your dad for much of the country was not admired. did that create stress? >> for us, you mean? no, no, that wouldn't have created stress. when you love someone and care about them, if they have a disaster, you don't abandon them. so we had such a strong family that, yes, it was extremely difficult but that's the last time that you would abandon someone is if they had had a... if they had a disaster in life. >> reporter: married 41 years, david and julie eisenhower and their three kids are hares to two of the most famous political figures of the 20th century. >> this was me in the patriotic first order dress. >> this would be a white house photograph. >> reporter: their white house days are long in the past. and they're just fine with that. >> thank god it's all over too. you know, we're not recognized anymore. it's a privilege to tell this story. for four weeks we might be recognized in the grocery store and then people might ask us still to spell the name. which happens all the time. >> a big relief. >> osgood: still to come, a chat with rolling stone keith richards. the chill of peppermint. the rich dark chocolate. york peppermint pattie. get the sensation. funny thing about vegetables... they fill you up without filling you out. yes! v8 juice gives you three of your five daily servings of vegetables. that's what i'm talking about! v8. what's your number? my kids say i speak a different language. but i love math and math and science develop new ideas. we've used hydrogen in our plants for decades. the old hydrogen units were very large. recently, we've been able to reduce that. then our scientists said "what if we could make it small enough to produce and use hydrogen right on board a car, as part of a hydrogen system." this could significantly reduce emissions and increase fuel economy by as much as 80%. >> 3, 2, 1, 0 and lift off. >> reporter: as we continue our mission to prove everybody in the world has a story, we once again turn to space station commander jeff williams. this time jeff's random stab at the globe sends us to china. the tip of his finger falling on the city of ken-du. they don't have any white pages here so we're going to have to use yellow pages this pages here so we're going to have to use yellow pages this time. we'll make it work though. of course, the basic idea was still the same. to profile whoever picks up. what went through your head when you first got our phone call. >> at first i thought it was a prank call. >> reporter: 24-year-old works at the lucky bag company. the company actually makes reusable shopping bags. in china you have to pay for bags at the store. so people often bring their own. you use them over and over. i could tell right away that she likes her job. it wasn't until she started on her story that i began to appreciate why. growing up her family was about as poor as they come in china. >> poverty back then is something one cannot describe in words. >> reporter: are you surprised at how your life has changed? >> i'm not surprised. it has taken me one grueling step at a time. >> reporter: like so many chinese, after high school she moved from the countryside where she was born to the city where the money is. she started as a secretary and then moved into sales. an impassioned capitalist she networked with everyone she met, read everything she could on business and saved everything she made, living on nothing but instant noodles for months on end. >> now every time i see noodles i'm just terrified. >> reporter: but her sacrifice paid off. she's now the first person in her family to own a car. and a company. >> this is my factory. >> reporter: four years ago she started the lucky bag company. it's now a million dollar a year business. and again, she's 24. and a woman running the show in a traditionally very male dominated society. she says it's been her experience that in china today, it's perfectly acceptable for a woman to wear the pants at the office. just as long as she changes before she goes home. >> in other words, men are like, i am god. or i am the emperor. you're supposed to do everything for me. >> reporter: she speaks from experience. after getting married in 2007 she says she and her husband started battling over gender roles. it all came to a head last march. there's a secret that even your family doesn't know, right? >> yes. about my divorce. all of my family and relatives don't know. i don't want them to know. >> reporter: although divorce is rising sharply in china, there's still a huge stigma especially for women. especially if the woman initiates it like this woman did. of course, she can't keep her divorce a secret forever. she would even like to remarry some day but not if it means playing the role of submissive housewife. she says if her story proves everything it's that once women anywhere discover what it feels like to be independent, they're hooked for life. >> it's like america. it's very powerful. i can decide what i want. >> osgood: trick or treat. halloween next sunday morning. ♪ [ ted ] for years, i was just a brewer. until one of the guys brought in some fresh bread that he'd made from our pale ale. and from that first bite, i knew my business would never be the same. 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( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: it's sometimes said there are two keith richards. >> the french bulldog. >> reporter: do you ever feel that there's this other guy, the myth logical keith richards who is trailing around alongside you? >> he's on the ball and chain as an image, you know, and carries a long shadow. i love the guy dearly but i'm still trying to find out who the hell he is. ♪ pleased to meet you ♪ don't forget my name > he is keith to his fans, once dubbeded the world's most elegantly wasted human. survivor of countless drug busts, guitarist for the biggest rock band on the planet. and one half of jag or and richards. ♪ i was born in... >> reporter: most of the most successful song writing teams of the past half venturi. how would you describe your professional partnership? >> i've never considered myself or him professional quite honestly. >> reporter: (laughing) ♪ don't you worry about what's on your mind ♪ >> reporter: and then there's, well, the other keith. i get the sense that you're actually in many ways a very traditional guy. >> yes, this is what i keep trying to tell everybody. >> reporter: that's the one we met in connecticut. at the house he built 20 years ago to raise his two daughters with his wife patty hanson. at home, he's the 66-year-old guitarist with the green thumb. who is someone for these? >> that's me. >> reporter: you? >> yeah. it's amazing really, isn't it? this is in my spare time i do this. >> reporter: you grow lemons. but then you realize the two keiths are really one. >> i've always planted things. i used to grow weed but i was never there for the harvest. (laughing) >> reporter: if keith richards didn't exist, one critic wrote, rock'n'roll would have to invent him. in a way it has. in his new memoir "life," he dispels some of the myths like the legendary tale he once had a total blood transfusion in switzerland. >> yes, i created that myth. >> reporter: you didn't have your blood drained and replaced. >> people wanted to believe that. i wouldn't swap this blood for nobody. >> reporter: and confirms others. the snorting of your father's ashes. >> true. >> reporter: it is true. you did in fact do it. >> i ingested my ancestor, yes. >> reporter: it was an accident, he says. he planned to bury his father's ashes beneath an oak tree he was planting. >> as i took the lid off the box, fine bits of my dad flew on to the table like powder, you know. honestly i could not resist. i just scooped him up there, took out a straw. see you, dad. i did a little line on him. yeah, i did that. and the rest of him is around the oak tree which is growing incredibly well. >> reporter: bert and doris richards' only child grew up in dartfordford, a working class suburb of london. his grandfather loved to take ricky, as he was called, to music stores. keith, here is the place. a little guitar shop. we took keith to the carmine street guitar shop in new york where owner rick kelly still makes guitars by hand in the back room. keith used to spend hours in shops like this in london's theater district. >> i would watch and just sit there. an apprentice is something i'm watching instruments being made, repaired. the smell of the glue. they would be like repairing stuff for the orchestras. you would see the guys, you know, with their rushing in. >> reporter: richards would meet another kid with a passion for rhythm and blues at the dartford train station. >> the guy on the station called mick jag or. >> reporter: he wrote about the encounter in a letter to his aunt. april 1962. you sent this from home. >> i think it's the greatest r and b singer this side of the atlantic. i don't mean maybe. i'm playing guitar chuck style. >> reporter: chuck berry. >> yeah, that would be chuck berry, yeah. >> reporter: a few months later, the rolling stones were born. their debut album would knock the beatles off the top of the british charts. ♪ you're going to give your love to me ♪ > jagger and richards emerged as the songwriters. mick came up with the lyrics. keith delivered the rest. does this stuff sort of pop into your head at some point? >> they pop off the fingers. more than the head. ♪ i can't get no satisfaction ♪ >> reporter: the stones swaggered through the '60s as rock's irrefuse vent bad boys. and the shy keith became an unlikely icon. with a bucaneering attitude that said he was ready to try anything and apologize for nothing. i see you're still smoking. how many vices do you have left? you've sort of whittled them away over the years. >> yeah, i'm down to the precious few now. >> reporter: do you miss any of them especially? >> not really. because i've done it. you can't go back. i used to love heroin. but what junky didn't? ♪ don't play with me because you're playing with fire ♪ >> reporter: keith may be the only one who isn't surprised he's still here. >> i have an amazing.... >> reporter: constitution. >> ...constitution. incredible immune system. which is... i've always known. but it's convincing other people. >> reporter: you said at one point that part of the reason that you took drugs was to hide. >> to get away from the flim flam, from all of the unnecessary things about show business. that seem to be important to show business people. i really never felt myself part of. >> reporter: busted repeatedly over the years, richards once said i didn't have a problem with drugs. only with policemen. you've often talked about no regrets, nothing. for you, what was the toughest thing you faced? >> the toughest thing i faced was my son dying. two months old. i'm on the road. i get a phone call. your son is dead. >> reporter: in 1976, his third child with long-time girlfriend anita pallenberg was found dead in his crib. >> you do say in the book you feel like you decemberered your post. >> supposed to be there, right? but i wasn't there. >> reporter: by the end of the decade, keith had finally cleand up his act. but for much of the '80s, the stones did not tour. jagger wanted to go off on his own and richards felt betrayed. you were pretty tough on him during that period. >> he was pretty tough on me as far as i'm concerned. "i'm leaving." "oh, thanks, pal." he set himself a separate agenda. it didn't include any of us. and riding on stones' fame to do it. i thought that was a cheap shot. >> reporter: in the book you basically say we're not really friends anymore but we'll always be brothers. >> yeah. the reason i say that probably is that we don't see a lot of each other when we're not working. >> reporter: do you wish you still did? >> i prefer it to be closer, as guys. but i don't like to socialize in the way that mick does. mick probably finds me far too serious and idealistic. ♪ yesterdays don't matter if it's gone ♪ >> reporter: mick and keith. it's like a marriage with no divorce, richards once said. their child is the rolling stones. >> there's a certain chemistry between mick and myself that just clicks. you don't know quite how and sometimes you do. there's many times, mick, i've got the greatest song ever. he's like, oh, i hate it. >> reporter: obviously you have to believe in that chemistry because you keep going back to it. >> oh, yes. i do. my job is to turn mick on. if i can turn mick on and mick can turn the world on, somebody has to spark him. >> reporter: working on his memoirs has kept richards at home for much of the past few years. do you get a road itch? >> you can feel an itch. it depends who is going to scratch. >> reporter: you've all got to scratch together, don't you? skproo. >> exactly. >> reporter: keith richards is ready to start collecting material for volume 2 of "life." i do a lot of different kinds of exercise, but basically, i'm a runner. last year. 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or is he a miracle fund-raiser who is leading the republicans to a takeover of the house? we'll talk to him about it. >> osgood: thank you, bob schieffer, we'll be watching. ahead here on sunday morning, steve hartman finds trouble in paradise. >> all the vehicle systems are outstanding today. >> reporter: for our third everybody in the world has a story space station commander jeff williams' random stab at the globe sent us to southern indonesia to the island of bali. it was here that fate handed me one of the most relateable stories i've ever told. this woman lives with her husband. their first names are the same. when i first met them, their lives seemed so different from ours. he makes bamboo furniture by hand. she makes regular offerings to the hindu gods. they live with their two children on just $10 a day. and yet both of them say life is perfect. except for one nagging question they just can't seem to resolve. how many times a week should you love your spouse? >> i wanted it to be every day. >> reporter: she says wrong answer. after spending all day cooking the meals, taking care of the kids and gathering the banana leaves for the offerings, the last thing she's in the mood for is messing around. he says he requires it to stay energized at work. basically he's a man with needs and she's a woman who needs sleep. he's the honeymoon. she's the headache. what's a guy to do? >> i talk about this to almost everyone because i'm always looking for the best solution. >> reporter: he says he's tried meditation and yoga but his drive just won't mellow. he also sent his wife to a healer who prescribes a boiling brew of leaves and liquids. she is supposed to drink it twice a day to feel frisky. >> but she didn't drink it. >> i don't really like to take a lot of medicine. >> reporter: i kind of had to agree with her on this one and suggested to him that maybe he should for get the leaves and give pet als a try. have you tried giving her flowers? >> never. >> reporter: never? he says guys in bali don't really give flowers although he has asked his wife to suggest other romantic things he could do. >> i've asked her often but she wouldn't answer. >> reporter: i think you're just supposed to know. >> really? >> reporter: it just goes to show that when you dig beneath race, religion and politics, you'll almost always find someone you can relate to. in fact, after traveling around the world twice, telling strangers' stories, i've concluded the only real difference between humans is that some people on earth live for purpose and meaning. the others are men. >> do you have a solution for me. >> reporter: do i have a solution for you? 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