Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop at Coon Rapids. Khrushchev seemed ready to reciprocate. At a rare, Western-style press conference at the Kremlin, he said that he was going to the U.S. as a "man of peace ... I am prepared to turn my pockets out to show I am harmless." He would, he said, refuse any invitations to visit U.S. military installations. He was not going to the U.S. to find out how strong the U.S. is-"One would be stupid not to know that the U.S. is strong and rich...
...Khrushchev's tentative itinerary includes New York and Chicago, stops in Iowa, Texas and California-where Vice President Nixon will greet the Russians in his native state. Khrushchev announced that he would probably accept an invitation from Farmer-Businessman Roswell Garst to visit his corn farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. Explained Garst, who met Khrushchev on a trip to the U.S.S.R.: "He's primarily interested in raising corn so that Russia can raise more livestock. And we know how to raise corn...
With only a fortnight to tour the U.S., Khrushchev would have to turn down most of the invitations that began rolling in to the Soviet embassy in Washington. Mayor Richardson Dilworth invited him to Philadelphia. In Columbus, Ohio State University alumni eagerly plotted to get Khrushchev to the football stadium for the Duke game. Officials in Marshalltown, Iowa urged him to visit their town "in the heartland of America." Invitations to make speeches poured in from an assortment of clubs, ranging from the Young Republicans in New York City to Rotary in Crossett, Ark. And inevitably, an invitation...
...Nikita Khrushchev is a doctrinaire Communist-a true believer; whatever he sees in the U.S., he will see through Communist glasses that will magnify and/or distort according to Communist gospel; it is therefore not realistic to think that his U.S. tour will change any of his basic ideas about the evils of capitalist society...
...Khrushchev is convinced that the U.S.S.R. is militarily more powerful than the U.S. Since no argument to the contrary is likely to get through to him, the best basis for U.S. debate is to convince him that in any war, both sides would turn out the loser. The worst thing the U.S. can do is to show signs of jitters over Soviet military threats...