Word: khrushchevism
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...other respects, however, her memoirs illuminate Pasternak's last years of private miseries and public persecution until his death of cancer in 1960. Historically, the most important piece of information she discloses is that Pasternak was not the author of two famous 1958 letters to Nikita Khrushchev and to Pravda, in which the writer pleaded not to be exiled from Russia and asserted that he had not been coerced into renouncing the Nobel Prize. Both letters were concocted by Ivinskaya. In the case of the letter to Pravda, she "worked" with a Central Committee official: "Like a pair...
...with pictures of soccer fields being built at Cienfuegos. "Those soccer fields could mean war, Bob," an excited Kissinger is supposed to have said. Understandably, Haldeman asked, "Why?" The reply: "Cubans play baseball. Russians play soccer." The meaning, according to Haldeman, was that eight years after the dangerous Kennedy-Khrushchev showdown over Soviet missiles in Cuba, the Russians were doing it again...
When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was first told that his 1959 itinerary included a stay at Camp David, he was mystified. In Khrushchev Remembers he said, "I couldn't for the life of me find out what this Camp David was. I was afraid this was ... the sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine. Finally we were informed that Camp David was what we would call a dacha." His amiable talks with Ike on disarmament and the future of Berlin produced what was known as "the spirit of Camp David...
...drop one of these automatic bombs on the Communists," said one Midwestern farmer during the early '50s. The prescription for homegrown Reds was McCarthyism, which threatened democracy more than the encapsulated cells of the American Communist Party. In the end, the beleaguered party withered away, stunned by Khrushchev's anti-Stalinism and sadly watching the proletariat leap over the threshold to the middle class. Marxist rhetoric could not compete with the ad-gab of prosperity...
Where power goes, there goes history. The meeting between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 may have precipitated the Cuban missile crisis because the Soviet leader thought he faced a callow kid. Lyndon Johnson used his jet like seven-league boots, striding over the world with low-calorie root beer and Texas steaks in the galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night...