Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 2 part 3

the two daughters are also with the party Radha she's the elder daughter and she's probably in her early 40s although we don't usually try to guess at the age of a lady said she's tall and slender and she's like brown hair I don't think we've seen much of the family on any of the coverage so far incidentally the elder daughter Radha is married to the director of the Kia opera and the younger daughter Julia who is the wife of the editor of the government newspaper izvestia is also in the party but again we haven't seen very much of them either I know from my information in the Coon Rapids area that there are plans for the young people tomorrow but they have been announced yet perhaps we'll get them in the news tomorrow when I believe jim has something to say here then i just want to point out that these as you said this is an unscheduled appearance in front of the Fort Des Moines hotel and these are not the radio television microphones he's talking until we have not lost our audio these are simply radio where i should say movie cameramen sound cameramen asking for an interview so our coverage is proceeding according to schedule and this has been an unscheduled stop for the benefit of the photographers and the movie cameramen sound count particularly Jim perhaps we could say this is just another evidence of the organized konfusion that most of us have experienced here go past several days I think it's more evidence to that somebody remarked earlier this morning that mr. Khrushchev himself is taking more control of this tour than he did earlier there was more and more evidence in California that he was that way party are saying now that they wouldn't be surprised that this indication crops up more during his tour here in Iowa order actually will be more chance for him to suddenly take off in his own direction and talk to somebody that he may see at the side of the road more chance to do that here than there has been so far this of course will give his security people but of course he'll get the more of the America that he actually wants to see this in front of the hotel now is some indication that he has just decided that he wants to talk to these newsreel and cameramen and so he and mrs. Khrushchev are simply doing it when it might be mentioned too that if he does want to speak with the real people of America he'll get his chance tomorrow because he's going to be out in some of those fields they're going to be a considerable number of farmers round of course his Iowa host Bob garse that Coon Rapids has long made plans to this effect and is very anxious to have his guests namely mr. K do a little visiting with some of the neighbors shall we say and if he does visit with those neighbors he will truly see a demonstration of the men farmers the workers and others the best salesman we have for democracy Len yes I'm glad that he can talk to them I think we should point out in all fairness no after what I said earlier that our American security people say that the tight security so far has been the doing of the Russian security people and not ours we should throw that in just to be fair the impromptu interview here apparently is over now he's going to address the crowd in general apparently a little bit very few people are going to understand much of that Russian but now he's turned around and there's headed in the direction of the lobby and here he comes into the lobby hotel Fort Des Moines where he and his party will put up going there to mine stay Glenn I talked with Joe Whelan a manager the for Des Moines hotel and he said that the Russians won't actually have to register in or sign the register such and here we see mr. Whelan the general manager of the Fort Des Moines hotel giving the official greeting joe said that they won't have to start to register they will be registered in by the hotel staff and now mr. Khrushchev is shaking some hands are in the lobby of the Fort Des Moines hotel he also said complete preparations have been made to handle all the luggage and that everything was prepared for this visit of roughly a hundred and thirteen I believe in the official party he is certainly getting closer to the people here in Des Moines immediately i'm sure this is not scheduled bit right here too or some people in the lobby wanting to see mr. Christian and mr. Khrushchev decided he'd shake hands with them and I saw a broad grin on his face apparently this pleased in very much as it should indeed here we're going by the registration desk where he will not stop as Jim point it out when you get to be a VIP you don't register for yourself and he will go up now to the presidential suite and prepare for his tour of Des Moines which comes up at about three-thirty it's afternoon here is mrs. Lovelace and this is chris job outside the hotel somebody's given mrs. Khrushchev a nice bouquet of flowers and they're standing there for picture taking when this really brings back some memories after visit we made to Russia some years ago was punctuated rather repeatedly with the presentation of big bouquets of flowers first lamb rather glad to see that mrs. Khrushchev ooh is reputed to be very charming lady did receive those flowers because I'm sure it will make her feel at home and make her feel very kindly toward the friendliness and hospitality of the island but for what we've seen definitely I don't believe the Kristof's can say that the Des Moines welcome was cold I don't believe that can be described as warm either we've seen much warmer welcomes here in Des Moines but it definitely was not cold I think it was pretty much in line with what the president has been asking that we be polite cordial and welcome him sincerely and be neither hot nor cold now the crowds breaking up outside the Fort Des Moines hotel barricades are still up there are some of those buses that brought the news men in from the airport I'm sure they are emptied a newsman now that they are swarming around trying to get what pictures they can is that a balloon man yes sir we can't have a crowd without one of those balloon men I wonder if they have those in Russia her so well they've got a lot of things but I don't pacifically remember balloon men and I'm rather sure they wouldn't have them in that number because I've seen the second one now grant her by did you haven't noticed out at the airport when ambassador Raj got off the plane just before Lovelace governor Lovelace was a introducing mr. Khrushchev he whispered something to one of the American in the party and said show on the number of swimming pools you have here and I'll apparently notice some out of the plane window and I believe that he is going to see one out of the Garst farm tomorrow yes but it should be added this is not necessarily typical every farm does not have a swimming pool however there's a real fine one out there at the gars farm and he will undoubtedly cease and other things out there at the farm itself that will be very impressive to him but primarily we must keep in mind that the major objective of his visit here is to see American agriculture in action and there's no place in the world where he can see it as well as he can here in Iowa and as we said earlier mr. Khrushchev must achieve better food production in his own country in order to meet the need the wants and the demand to these people most of us who have been watching the preparations for this event have been astounded that the police and the security people have allowed the general public to congregate on that parking ramp across the street from the hotel the way they have now that is a really sizable excuse me sizable collection of people now on that unusual building just across from the hotel Fort Des Moines and there is no way on earth that I know of and to make sure that all those people over there are safe people speaking in a security sort of way nevertheless all the floors the parking ramp have been pretty crowded with people on the very top there have been some security guards who have been watching things but we are surprised that they have let people congregate on that open pipe building the way they have incidentally rather amusing on the circular ramp part of the building there are cables going from Florida floor and there are people intermingled with these cables and look for all the world like we have a large number of caged people watching mr. Christopher right here in Des Moines i hope the russian photographers who are along don't send a picture of these caged people back to Russia for propaganda purposes you can be almost certain that they'll make some use of those pictures then you made reference to the surprising turn of events with the people being so close and with of course so many people on that ramp as you know we've had some experience with presidential visitations here I've always marveled at the job the security people do they seem to me are the most efficient group of people on earth the job they do in the protecting of their particular guests or responsibility and I suspect that there were more security people among the crowd than what you and I would normally realize certainly they have proved again in this tremendous challenge that has been theirs they've done a good job protection up to now now of course we're seeing some of the cars being left back into the stream of traffic as the streets are open Locust Street and tenth Street and land don't you imagine the quite a few of the people we see that are still standing inside the lobby of the Fort Des Moines and those that remain across the street are waiting for the approximate schedule of an hour and five minutes from now and he scheduled again to leave the hotel to go the the Des Moines packing company and the John Deere work you