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...Soviet Union. Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Yalta for a fateful wartime conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in 1945. Despite the postwar chill between the two nations, recent Presidents have been more than willing to seek better relations with the U.S.S.R. by going to Moscow. But Dwight Eisenhower's plans to visit the Kremlin crashed with the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane over Russia in 1960. At the time John Kennedy was killed, talks were under way about a possible presidential visit to Moscow in the spring of 1964. Lyndon Johnson was about to announce...
Although Presidents have been sadly surprised by the performance of some of their appointees (most notably Dwight Eisenhower by Warren and Theodore Roosevelt by Oliver Wendell Holmes), Nixon seems far too conscious of just what he wants in a Justice to err in selection. One likely choice: Virginia Representative Richard Poff, 47, a political conservative who is highly respected by his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee for his legal competence. Poff would not be eligible if Congress had passed a bill he had introduced in 1963 requiring Supreme Court nominees to have spent at least five years...
...Japan itself, the brief meeting between Hirohito and Nixon will overshadow the rest of the itinerary. Never have a U.S. President and a Japanese Emperor met in the 117 years since Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet of U.S. "black ships" opened feudal Japan to the West. Dwight Eisenhower nearly made it to Japan in 1960, but massive demonstrations by anti-American students in Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple...
...dealings with U.S. leaders, Khrushchev often behaved brusquely and temperamentally. He disliked Richard Nixon, particularly after his 1959 debate with the then Vice President in the U.S. "kitchen exhibit" in Moscow. He respected Dwight Eisenhower, but this did not prevent him from savagely attacking Ike and torpedoing the 1960 summit conference following the U-2 overflight. He thought John Kennedy a pushover when they met in Vienna in 1961-a miscalculation that led directly to the Cuban missile crisis, which brought the world to the verge of nuclear war. Khrushchev proclaimed the confrontation a triumph because it ended...
...next night, when the Concert Hall-a far more tasteful room-opened with a performance by Conductor Antal Dorati and the city's National Symphony. The Nixons' guest was Mamie Eisenhower, who got a standing ovation from the audience-though probably few remembered that it was President Dwight D. Eisenhower, not J.F.K., who gave the Center its first impetus back in 1958 by pushing legislation through Congress...