Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Khrushchev came in September, and his visit is recalled in kaleidoscopic flash back?of Khrushchev baronially breathing the morning air in front of Blair House; of Khrushchev bulling his way across the U.S., now boasting of Russian military might and space achievement, now uttering dulcet promises of peace and friendship; of Khrushchev threatening to pick up his marbles and go home when denied a chance to go to Southern California's Disneyland; of Khrushchev falling in love with San Francisco; and of Khrushchev roaring in merriment while an Iowa farmer shied ensilage at the newsmen who had crowded too close...
President Eisenhower had already heard from such travelers to the Soviet Union as Nixon, his brother Milton and Democrats Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey that the Russian people seemed desirous of peace. He was told that they stubbornly held to a fund of friendship for the U.S. that had not been washed out by 14 years of hostile propaganda, that they were pushing their own government for more consumer goods and even for a measure of freedom...
...Timesman Paul Grimes from New Delhi after Ike's departure: "It did not seem to matter much whether Mr. Nehru had actually requested or been given a guarantee that the U.S. would help India to meet further Chinese Communist aggression. What mattered was the obvious strengthening of Indian-American friendship to a point where no such guarantee was necessary." In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower's last year in office, he may in a sense be the victim of his own success in 1959. Ahead lie his trip to the Soviet Union and a series of summit conferences?all carrying a special...