Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Washington's attention focused on Khrushchev's moves in the Caribbean, Galbraith was left to handle the border war on his own. "I was thoroughly swamped with decisions and there probably wouldn't have been time to consult Washington on many problems anyway...
...Both Kennedy and Chamberlain considered appeasement a method of resolving differences with dictators. However, both Khrushchev and Hitler considered appeasement a method of securing concessions from a self-deluded enemy...
...been achieved, it is necessary to commit a hostile act to set the stage for the securing of the next. This performance is not mysterious. On the contrary, it is strictly by the book. It was followed religiously by Hitler and it will also be adhered to by Khrushchev as long as America is controlled by an administration committed to appeasement...
...wheat be transported in U.S. ships whenever possible. Since it costs around $20 a ton to move the wheat to Russian ports in U.S. vessels, roughly twice as much as in foreign bottoms, the Russians are anxious to get around that provision. And in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev told a press conference that "if the Americans put forth any kind of discriminatory condition to the sale of wheat, then we will not buy wheat in America...
Liberals generally rate fairly low: Pundit Norman Cousins has a three-minute McL-C, Dean Acheson a coefficient of ten minutes, but McLandress gives President Kennedy a rating of 29 minutes. Elizabeth Taylor, Nikita Khrushchev and David Susskind all have the same coefficient: three minutes...