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Eisenhower's Peace Talks
My uncle had this idea of, you know, being the peace president from the beginning. He agreed to meet crew chef in Geneva to do his summit but that was torpedoed by the CIA during the U two crash. So then we had a spy that used to come to our house all the time. I cut Georgie Bolshagoy. My parents met at the embassy. They had gone to a party or a reception at Russian embassy and they knew he was an GRU agent and KGB. The State Department was horrified by it. But anyway, when Khrushchev after Vienna and after,you know, the big, on Khrushchev had second thoughts about ending run them.