Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China as the real menace to the West to the question of a new NATO commander, and saying breezily to Kennedy: "I suppose it should be a Russian." Here, again, is Kennedy telling a friend how difficult it was, short of a showdown, to convince Russia's Nikita Khrushchev that the U.S. would not let anybody push it around. "That son-of-a-bitch won't pay any attention to words," said Kennedy. "He has to see you move...
...Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev saw Kennedy move-and that brink-of-war episode sobered both men. Kennedy felt that he had "peered into the abyss and knew the potentiality of chaos," says Schlesinger, and from then on his overriding aim was to minimize "the ethos of violence" and "to prevent unreason from rending the skin of civility." Shortly before Dallas, he read aloud a passage from King John...
...Ireland, Brendan Corish, leader of the Labor Party, credits Kennedy with leading the world into forming "the Trinity of Peace, with Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev." In the past three months, major Italian magazines have carried nine cover stories either on Jack or some other Kennedy, and only one on Johnson. Says Author-Politician Luigi Barzini (The Italians): "Kennedy has attained a superman stature in Italian eyes. He was the man of hope, the man who could have done anything. He was the man who could have brought lasting peace to the entire world...
...change his image a little. "I am not," he protests, "a very charitable man." Nevertheless, he set up a $14 million foundation for education in Africa. In 1963, he celebrated the first birthday of his color supplement by flying a group of British businessmen to Moscow to meet Khrushchev. "Under our two systems," Thomson told Khrushchev, "I am a capitalist and have come up, and you're a Communist and have come up." Thomson takes his self-appointed role as a broker between East and West so seriously that he went to Moscow again last September to have...
...offbeat feature story on, say, an obscure trial witness. Whenever Hearst editors scented a big story, she was sure to get the assignment; she was on hand for Bruno Hauptmann's trial, F.D.R.'s first presidential campaign, Queen Elizabeth's coronation, Princess Margaret's marriage, Khrushchev's U.S. visit. In turn, her fellow Hearst employees respected her as a master practitioner of Hearst journalism, a judgment that was amply evident in the amount of space-some seven pages-that the Journal-American devoted to her death...