Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 1958, Eisenhower sent troops to save the government of Lebanon from Nasser-oriented Arab nationalists. In November 1958, Nikita Khrushchev handed down an ultimatum to the Western allies to get out of Berlin. To resolve the issue, Eisenhower initiated a venture in personal diplomacy. Khrushchev came to the U.S., and during talks in the President's Camp David retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, agreed to lift his ultimatum. The "spirit of Camp David" was short-lived. Just before another summit conference in Paris in 1960, Khrushchev announced that the Russians had shot down an American...
...hands on a couple of ICBMs!" At the same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking the nuclear-arms race. Moscow made no secret of the fact that it was going ahead with its own ABM. As early as 1962, Nikita Khrushchev bragged that his anti-missile weapon could...
...After an emergency session of the West Berlin Senate, Mayor Klaus Schütz appealed to West Berliners to remain calm. They were bracing for what many of them expected might develop into the severest threat to the city's economic viability since 1961, when former Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to turn over the responsibility for West Berlin's access routes to the East Germans...
...predecessors kept him constantly on the move. With Lyndon Johnson, he went to Seoul and to Viet Nam; he covered Johnson's two-week tour of Asia in 1966 and the famous 4½-day dash around the world in 1967. Sidey was with Kennedy and Khrushchev in Vienna; he stood below as Kennedy shouted "Ich bin ein Berliner!" in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. And he went along on the young President's visit to the old family sod in Ireland...
Dulles presided over two major disasters during his tenure as director. One was the Russian capture of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers, which enabled Nikita Khrushchev to gain a propaganda victory over the U.S. (since then, a system of spy satellites initiated under Dulles has much surpassed the U-2s). The other was the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, which led at least indirectly to Dulles' retirement seven months later. Dulles took it all calmly. CIA directors, he said, were "expendable." He wrote: "Obviously you cannot tell of operations that go along well. Those that go badly generally...