Word: khrushchev
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...June 1961, less than two months after the CIA disaster in Cuba, President Kennedy journeyed to Vienna to meet with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev, who was built along the lines of a Soviet tank, sized up the slender young American President and mistakenly assumed he could be pushed around. Knowing that J.F.K. was still reeling from the CIA's failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro, he threatened to move against Berlin. "It will be a cold winter," Kennedy said. As matters turned out, it was a cold October the next year. Emboldened by the U.S. defeat...
...particular form of journalism--Washington-based newspaper coverage of the decisions, motives and actions of major governmental figures--Reston was for two decades after World War II a truly dominant figure. When the new President, John Kennedy, came out of a harrowing meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, he went straight to a prearranged session with Reston to discuss Khrushchev's apparent threat of a nuclear showdown. In the months between that meeting and the Cuban missile crisis, Reston's reporting played the role it often had since the 1940s: it was the most authoritative indicator of what...
...crutches and was lifted onto Air Force One by a cherrypicker, the most graphic public display of his physical problems. But two nights later, he was in Palm Beach sipping daiquiris while Frank Sinatra records played in the background, telling amusing and frightening stories of his encounter with Nikita Khrushchev. The back spasm of two days earlier never came up. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, which roused the most thunderous audience response I have ever witnessed or felt, came after hours of touring the Berlin Wall while standing in the back of an open-air limo with...
...West Wingers make for fascinating history. Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's verbal alter ego, recalls that at the crucial moment of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, J.F.K. asked him and Bobby Kennedy to go to Sorensen's office to work out a reply to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's threatening letter, a response credited with defusing the nuclear danger. Porter, who is a professor at Harvard, worked out George H.W. Bush's education goals in his cramped, second-story office with then Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas and South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell...
...first Miss Russia to win the title of Miss Universe would impress both Tsar Nicholas and Comrade Khrushchev. OXANA FEDOROVA, crowned last week in Puerto Rico, trained at the Russian police academy and boasts among her talents hand-to-hand combat and the ability to assemble a Kalashnikov rifle in a matter of seconds. Her victory caused typically gloomy Russian souls to bloom with pride, with her triumph leading all national newscasts. One report aired snippets from her school records, including such praise as "Physically in good condition. Knows the rules for maintaining and firing weapons. Knows how to keep...