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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...host of Soviet and U.S. diplomats???headed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko?joined Kennedy and Khrushchev at the table. After a cocktail (Khrushchev downed a bourgeois martini, Kennedy a Dubonnet), the two leaders exchanged champagne toasts, regaled each other with political anecdotes and lighthearted comparisons of the Communist and capitalist ways of life. After the luncheon, in a now familiar Kennedy routine, the President took his guest by the arm, suggested a short walk in the garden, alone but for their interpreters. As they strolled around the garden's tree-shaded pond, Kennedy stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Measuring Mission | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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