Word: khrushchevism
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...KHRUSHCHEV IN PEKING...
...chief international ally. By 1960 the break between the two countries was complete. While Chiang Ch'ing did not play a direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...
...remembered standing among the leaders on the rostrum of the Gate of Heavenly Peace to review the parades, demonstrations, and fireworks that marked the state's fifth anniversary. Chou Enlai, always alert to proprieties, made a move to introduce Chiang Ch'ing to Khrushchev. Seeing what was about to happen, Chairman Mao stood up, walked over to Chiang Ch'ing (almost never did they appear publicly side by side), and brusquely escorted her away, leading her down one of the two alleys that ran along the sides of the rostrum. There the two of them enjoyed...
...Pentagon papers trial of Daniel Ellsberg surfaced! As a defense witness, Sorensen testified that he, like Ellsberg, had removed classified information without authorization. When Sorensen left the White House in 1964, he took along 67 boxes of documents, seven of them classified. Included were memos on the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, the war in Laos, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. Sorensen used some of the material for his book Kennedy, then donated all of it to the Kennedy Library. He claimed a $231,000 tax deduction, part of which was rejected...
Pepsi's Soviet foray began with the 1959 Moscow trade fair, at which then Vice President Richard Nixon had his celebrated "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev. Donald M. Kendall, then head of Pepsi's international operations, persuaded Nixon to steer Khrushchev to the Pepsi kiosk, where the Soviet Premier downed eight bottles of Pepsi. When ordinary Russians also showed a thirst for the cola drink...