union in 1959, after we left moscow we flew on russian airplanes and one of the interesting things was that the doctor with us was an air force and colonel i guess he was. air force officer. and when we flew from st. petersburg we flew the long way across country. one of his assignments from the air force was to take pictures of anything he saw that would look militarily out of the wind window. so these airplanes had like clothes hangers and you hang a newspaper up. that s how you read them. kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice president and with their key people that were with him and so i m back there with the doctor. and so when he had s see something he wanted to take a picture of, i d stand in the aisle and see where the kgb was an see if they were in the front so he could take pictures. he got a lot of photos out of that, right behind the kgb. i want to ask you, you raised some questions about rosemary wilson. give me some examples. in 1960, she
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] by 2016 according to the imf, the world s leading economy will be a communist dictatorship. that is in five years time. now think about that, if the imf is right, to guide you elected next november will be the last president of the united states to reside over the world s leading economy. in this encore booknotes presentation from 1999, photographers fred maroon discussed the nixon years: 1969-1974 white house to watergate. his book features 134 pictures that follow richard nixon and the staff from the presidents inauguration to his resignation in 1974. c-span: fred j. maroon, photographer, what what went into putting together this book, the nixon years ? guest: it took four years to do the actual photography. i had to get a permission first from the white house to do the behind-the-scenes first term of president nixon. then i went on to do all the other segments: the committee to re-elect the president, the watergate
had to put in the lock chamber. and located way down at the bottom is a set of gates, very short gates and they were not operated by hydraulic water pressure. we had to use what they call chain hoists or some kind of mechanism to pull the gates closed and the only way they were used is when they dewatered the locks and why did they dewater the locks? to repair the seals down at the bottom. how large is this structure? this structure is 547 feet long, 55 feet wide, and 50 feet deep. actually, the total lift would have been about 30 feet, which was the largest lift in the country when it was built. this site was closed in 1961 after a new lock system was built in port allen which is about 10 miles from plaquemine. the reason why is barges and tugboats were being built larger to handle larger commodities. to handle that, they built a larger set of locks and, also, t the entrance to the locks from the intracoastal waterway system is a straight body of water where here in plaq
he thought that pakistan, if they did not come to an understanding of the situation and they need to be on site, from their own self-interest, we could force them into the first and leading descent was one on prejudging what the president should do in july. we should not be in it the business of prejudging what the president does or does not do. that is fair up two. , but we are watching this, and there is a question as to how sustainable this is. former senior officer in that part of the world, i gather that you have fundamental questions about the viability of what we are doing in afghanistan. perhaps you could lay those out. i do have very serious reservations particularly about the sustainability of what we are doing. it comes down to a point that mr. arledge made very eloquently, and that has to do with sustainability both on the u.s. and the afghan side. focusing on the karzai government, particularly the afghan national army, for the reasons that mr. arledge p
passed that health care reform. he s just not going to do it. he s got to come up with some reason and the reason is a messaging. i think i might move to foreign policy only because there s 50,000 troops still sitting in iraq. whether or not that constitutes a withdrawal, and i would push of a little on the deadline for next june, the time to do that will be after december when the report put a report out there. but i think there have been certain signals inside the white house and certainly from the military that perhaps that whole is beginning to draw down, may not work as well as they thought it would even though they remain publicly [inaudible] the left the democratic party, and does he risk an antiwar candidate running for the nomination, even if it s a symbolic candidate. another question, does he think hillary will run? [laughter] i would wonder whether he still believed that the american people want transformational change. i think point you brought up, john