Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar's most remarkable political interviews, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey talked across a Kremlin table last week for eight hours with the stumpy, gap-toothed man who rules the Russians. Humphrey, like such other recent Kremlin visitors as Adlai Stevenson and Pundit Walter Lippmann, came away convinced that Khrushchev knows what he wants, and intends to get it. And what Khrushchev wants right now, first and more than anything else, is Berlin. "I do not think that war over Berlin is likely," said Humphrey in London after the interview (see Foreign Relations). "But I would...
Minnesota's Humphrey, as a member of the loyal opposition in U.S. political terms, bluntly told Khrushchev that the U.S. is not going to get shoved out of Berlin. But, as a loyal member of the opposition, he came away calling for the U.S. to adopt some sort of "new approach" to the cold war. No one, least of all Secretary of State Dulles,* would deny the possible benefits of a new approach-provided it had something to recommend it beyond mere newness. But such an approach can only be a tactical means of implementing the principle, explained...
...Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev and Hubert Humphrey indeed discussed many things: it was the longest, perhaps the most revealing and certainly the most fascinating audience ever given by a Soviet Premier to a U.S. citizen...
Minnesota's Humphrey and his wife Muriel, touring Europe, had gone to Moscow almost as an afterthought. But once there, Humphrey decided "to ask for everything and see what I got." Said he to the Intourist guide who took him in tow: "I want to see the Minister of Health and the Minister of Education." The Intourist man looked gravely doubtful. Continued Humphrey: "I want to appear on your television." The guide prepared to leave. Concluded Humphrey: "And I want to see Mr. Khrushchev." The guide was gone...
...Humphrey worked his way through a score of Soviet ministers, deputy ministers and lesser bureaucrats. He appeared live on Moscow television for ten minutes ("We want to know you and we want you to know us and visit us."), taped a 25-minute program for radio; he wrote a signed article for Izvestia on the U.S. desire for peace, interlarding it with statistics calculated to show the contrast between U.S. and Russian life ("three quarters of our families own their own homes and their own automobiles, which war would all destroy"). And one afternoon, checking in with the Soviet Committee...