At the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what the Trump Administration what their attitude is towards being interviewed about oral history when we get to that place. In any case, barbaras g
Im not going to chair the panel, but i will turn the duties over to my colleague here at the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what the Trump Administration what their attitude is towards b
Assessing u. S. Soviet relations in the 1960s and 70s. Im not going to chair the panel, but i will turn the duties over to my colleague here at the Miller Center, professor barbara perry, who is going to anchor the panel. Barbara is herself a noted scholar of the 60s and of the kennedy era and the kennedy clan. She is also the director of president ial studies here at the Miller Center. She is a very seasoned expert oral historian as well as a written historian, and for many years she helped lead the Oral History Program here at the Miller Center, which was one of the signature undertakings that we do in interviewing the leading members of president ial administrations from the four years on up until the present. Or at least i should say the recent past. We have completed oral histories under her leadership and russel rileys leadership of every administration through the george w. Bush administration and we are planning to lay siege to the Obama Administration and well find out what th
Turn . Guest well, i wouldnt say date that created it, but if i had to pick one date as the epicenter, perhaps, of the turn, it would have been the reykjavik summit in october of 1986, just about five years ago from this fall. Cspan what happened there . Guest in this remarkable event, probably the most remarkable meeting of u. S. And soviet leaders, certainly since kennedys meeting with khrushchev in vienna, reagan and gorbachev and shevardnadze and shultz sat down in a small room in reykjavik over a dining room table and started negotiating over their entire nuclear arsenal. They had on the table to be bargained with the entire stock of Ballistic Missiles in the arsenals of both governments which were the basic weapons underpinning their national power. At the end of the summit reagan even said and i have the quotes authenticated for the first time why dont we just get rid of all Nuclear Weapons . Just get rid of them all. And gorbachev said, yes, lets do that. Lets just get rid of t
Back this morning. We now have University Virginia Miller Center president ial Recordings Program chair Mark Silverstone thank you for joining us on the 60th anniversary of the cuban missile crisis to be here to you. So lets start today about, you know, october 16th, 1962 is when president John F Kennedy was shown the photographs taken by u2 plane over what exactly did these pictures show . They revealed the existence of soviet Ballistic Missiles that were capable of carrying Nuclear Warheads. And that was a really thing, especially since president kennedy twice the previous month said that if soviets had decided to place offensive Weapons Systems in cuba, the gravest issues would arise. So kennedy had essentially laid down his red line twice. Once on september 4th, because there was chatter in washington. The soviets were bringing missiles into, cuba, and there were pictures that they were those missiles happened to be surface to air missiles. But what was dangerous were the Ballistic