Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Khrushchev helped Kennedy win the 1960 presidential election...
During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon. Khrushchev reminded Salinger of the incident in July 1960 when a U.S. Air Force RB-47 was shot down over the Barents Sea. Nixon, said Khrushchev, tried to use the incident to his advantage. Through an unnamed "high-ranking" Republican, explained Khrushchev, Nixon "approached us with the request to release the crew members of the American RB-47. We of course understood that Nixon wished to make political capital out of this for himself in advance...
Writes Salinger: "I responded that the release of the RB-47 flyers before the election might very well have won it for Nixon. 'Of course,' said Khrushchev. 'For this reason, I said it would not be proper to do this. For you see, Nixon wanted to make it appear as if he had already arranged certain contacts with the Soviet government. And this, of course, would have played a decisive role in the election. That is why we decided to wait a while until Kennedy came to power, and only after that release the American flyers...
...clear that Khrushchev wouldn't have lifted a finger to help Nixon get elected dogcatcher. The Communist boss described Nixon as "an intellectually limited" man who "produces the impression of a slightly fraudulent, petty storekeeper, capable of selling tainted herring or representing kerosene-soaked sugar as good merchandise." (The statement was made some time before Khrushchev himself came to be regarded by his own associates as a handy fellow with a tainted herring...
Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...