Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a stop at a booth where Khrushchev took a skeptical sip at a Pepsi-Cola. Nixon and Khrushchev went on to the exhibition's most publicized display: a six-room, model ranch house with a central viewing corridor so that visitors can see the shiny new furnishings. Soviet propaganda had been telling Russians in advance that the ranch house they would see at the U.S. exhibition was no more typical of workers' homes in the U.S. than the Taj Mahal was typical in India or Buckingham Palace in Britain...
Nixon made a point of telling Khrushchev that the house was well within the means of U.S. working-class families. The house cost $14,000, Nixon said, and could be paid off over the course of 25 or 30 years. "You know we are having a steel strike," said he, finessing a certain Russian high card. "Well, any steelworker can afford this house." Then the conversation drifted to kitchen equipment and exploded into a cold-war debate that newsmen dubbed the "kitchen conference" and the "Sokolniki summit...
...Threat with Threat." Looking over the ranch house's sleek, gadget-stocked kitchen, Khrushchev showed, as he did dozens of times at the exhibition, the braggy defensiveness that seems to come over Soviet officials when they confront the U.S. standard of living...
...Khrushchev: You Americans think that the Russian people will be astonished to see these things. The fact is that all our new houses have this kind of equipment...
...Khrushchev made some remarks about washing machines, but Nixon pursued the debate: "Is it not far better to be talking about washing machines than machines of war, like rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want...