Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kennedy once remarked that he didn't like to wake up in the morning and read newspaper stories about Khrushchev or Mao or Castro or any other unfriendly fellow. What he wanted was headlines about the President of the U.S., and he was engagingly candid about his desire for public "visibility...
...prevent international issues, as well as the inevitable internal questions such as consumer goods versus heavy industry, from becoming ideological weapons with which the opponents could assault each other. Traditionally, the victor has been the advocate of a conservative hard line, the position from which Stalin defeated Trotsky and Khrushchev upset Malenkov. But would a hard-line candidate attempt to oust an opponent by breaking the nuclear test-ban treaty or, ultimately, starting a nuclear war to prove that Communist civilization could be built on the rubble of the old order? It is more likely that, following Khrushchev's example...
...question it would be most fruitful for Americans to argue is what the U.S. reaction to Khrushchev's death should be. Should the message of condolences be warm or formal? Much more important, should we adopt an activist policy of profiting from the Soviet disadvantage or stay aloof from the entire affair...
Perhaps the best policy would be a mixture of the two alternatives. It would be insane to announce our intention to free East Germany, but the relaxation of tensions which would probably follow Khrushchev's death might offer a real opportunity to strengthen U.S. economic and cultural ties with the nations of Eastern Europe...
These are not offensive policies; in the end they might strengthen the peace that Khrushchev and Kennedy achieved together. They are, on the other hand, valid foreign policy objectives for the United States which the Soviets could meet without loss of face...