Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot down, Khrushchev claims, over Soviet territory last July...
...directions. Kennedy's main argument in his campaign has been to attack the Republicans for U.S. weaknesses and declining prestige abroad; Nixon has scorned the charge that the U.S. is second best and holds that the nation needs a strong and knowledgeable leader who can deal with Nikita Khrushchev (e.g., Dick Nixon) in the perilous years ahead. With the approach of Baltika to U.S. shores, it became more and more apparent that Khrushchev himself would become a tense campaign issue. And. sure enough. Kennedy and Nixon were soon involved in their own cold...
Nixon urged a foreign policy truce during Khrushchev's stay. Kennedy was not having any. But well aware of the risk that he and Khrushchev might be simultaneously criticizing U.S. policy, Kennedy, in his first nationally televised address of the campaign, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington, tried a different technique. He addressed himself directly to Khrushchev. "But how can you talk of peace, Mr. Khrushchev," he asked, "when you and your Chinese Communist friends are undermining the peace every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded...
...what he obviously thought (from crowd reaction) was a strong issue. He called Kennedy "naive and inexperienced" and "the spokesman of national disparagement . . . We have responsibility in avoiding resort to statements which tend to divide America, which tend to disparage America, and which, in any way, would encourage Chairman Khrushchev and his fellow dictators to believe that this nation, leader of the free world, is weak of will, indecisive, is unsure and hesitant to use her vast power, is poorly defended...
...return of the old Nixon campaigning style. Kennedy, said Nixon in Springfield, Mo., "is just as strong in his opposition to Communism as I am, but because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he urged a course of action [for President Eisenhower to express regrets to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident] that would produce results that he would oppose as strongly as I do." In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Jack Kennedy lashed back: "I would not cast aspersions upon any American, and I do not cast them by innuendo or implication upon my opponent...