"Children of the Cold War"

21 July 1997

If you are old enough to remember under the desk bomb drills and discussions of how to build and stock a bomb shelter, you might want to view the CSPAN program entitled "Children of the Cold War", a lecture given for the University of California at Irvine Alumni Association. The speakers are David Eisenhower (Dwight's grandson), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Richard's daughter and David's wife), and Sergei Kruschchev (son of Nikita). They discuss the Cold War from their perspectives as the children of the leaders of the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. during the time when the possibility of nuclear bombs destroying this nation was a chronic worry.

For younger readers, please imagine a threat so pervasive and profound that one afternoon my neighbor Marilyn and I, both on the threshold of teenage years, wept together because we would probably be killed by a nuclear bomb before we had a chance to be adults. For students, The Bomb was part of classroom reality. One classmate's English assignment became the story of a board game played in a bomb shelter while the occupants waited for the radiation to subside enough to get out of the shelter. The board game became the focus of existence. A distraught player killed another over the winning of the game. My classmates thoughtfully nodded in agreement with the premise--who knew what kind of depraved behavior would result from forced isolation in a bomb shelter?

Meanwhile, David and Julie and Sergei probably had the advantage of access to spacious, well-stocked government bomb shelters. David Eisenhower spoke of the paradox of Cold War insecurities at a time of economic stability. He described getting his best suit on and his hair slicked back to be a kid meeting Kruschchev. His dad worked long hours for his grandfather, the President, and came home exhausted during times of planning and negotiations.

Sergei Kruschchev, now a fellow at some institute here in the States, was old enough to be in the military for part of the Cold War. He describes his dad coming back from negotiations in Geneva in 1955, and how amazed Nikita was to see the real life millionaires Rockefeller, Morgan and Rothschild at the negotiations. Nikita apparently thought of a way to touch these rich beyond comprehension persons just for the satisfaction of verifying that they were human, albeit super rich. (I might disagree with Nikita's assessment, but that's a story for another time, and by the way--why were they making nuclear bomb policy for our nation?.)

Sergei said a lot of the perceived Russian armament strength was a "big chain of misunderstanding". When his father told the press the U.S.S.R. "produces missiles like sausages", Sergei said he asked his father why he lied. Nikita apparently felt that if the U.S.A. knew how weak his nation actually was, an invasion would be triggered. The U-2 flights over the U.S.S.R. were humiliating to Nikita Kruschchev according to his son. Nikita despaired that a protest sent to the White House would be greeted by laughter.

Can Sergei be believed? Good question. Can Julie and David be believed? Another good question.

Julie's speech was a capsule history of her father's career with some interesting anecdotes. I'm glad Nixon exposed Alger Hiss. His opening of China precipitated economic and perhaps military war for the U.S.A. We are flooded with Chinese products and immigrants while the American taxpayer pays the bills to create Paradise for Communists. We pay billions per year for the care of Chinese immigrants who never put a dime into Social Security. Chinese immigrant students are flooding the nation, and we pay for their education. Nixon finally wound up the g.d. war in Vietnam. His Civil Rights work led to tremendous injury to White Americans and their families. Watergate was a tempest in a teapot compared to the Blithe Boy's government gangsterism. Nixon is dead, and I still don't know how to regard him.

Perhaps the most chilling portion of the program was during the question and answer period. Julie said the strongest leader and best hope to solve America's divisions and pressing problems is Colin Powell. Oh, my. David talked about "what nation-states are capable of" and "the nightmare of the Holocaust". Double oh, my. Sergei said because of the breakdown of the power structure, the threat of bombs from Russia is greater now than before.

Let's see, now. Bombs and One-Worlders? Bombs and One-Worlders? Bombs and One-Worlders? Bombs and One-Worlders? Oh. My.

CSPAN's web address: www.c-span.org
For enraging details on the billions of dollars of abuse of welfare by the Chinese immigrants and other immigrants, see ftp://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/pub/Immigration/WelfareUse/Index.html
Organizations in Asia, such as the nonprofit International Social Service in Hong Kong, give detailed advice about welfare to those who are planning to emigrate to the United States. U.S. Census Bureau data show that 55 percent of the Chinese seniors who immigrated to California between 1980 and 1987 were on welfare in 1990. The comparable 1990 figure is only 9 percent for Real American native-born seniors. Since 1990, the situation has grown shamefully worse--only the Chinese call welfare "fringe benefits" and have no shame. Read all the reports for details about Chinese immigrants taking American engineering and professional jobs making $50-100,000 per year and sponsoring the immigration of their parents who collect welfare and use it for international travel. Richard Nixon and crew, I hardly know what to say. Welcome to the World of the International Parasites. Family Reunification is a scam.

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