Word: khrushchevism
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Russia's ego certainly needs boosting. The only resemblance between Putin-Bush and the encounter between John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in 1961 will be the month--both being June meetings. The Soviet leader who went to Vienna in 1961 presided over a dynamic, aggressively self-confident empire that was at the height of its powers; today Russia's decline is far from over. Putin is a recently retired civil servant...
...Jackie crystallized an emerging notion of modernity for both the elites she moved among: the newly prosperous middle classes and those still striving to move up. In the cultural politics of the cold war world, her elegance also made an irrefutable argument for the U.S. (One look at Nikita Khrushchev's wife Nina and you understood why the Russians have a word like babushka.) Thin as an icicle, as up-to-the-minute as a nose cone, wherever Jackie was, there was the New Frontier...
...however, add a footnote. As fall approached, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, the irascible and slightly infamous patriarch of the Kennedy clan, called me up to muse a bit about that hot summer (Berlin Wall, Khrushchev blasts at the Vienna Summit). The conversation went something like this: "I tell you, Hugh, Jack is the luckiest guy I know. He could fall into a pile of manure and come up smelling like a rose. The Bay of Pigs and the other things were the best lessons he could have gotten and he got them all early. He knows now what will work...
...does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed to Khrushchev" for a victory...
While very few of the photographs and objects have been examined yet, one of the more interesting finds, according to preservation librarian Jan Merrill-Oldham, is a clear, close-up photo of a young Nikita Khrushchev that was among a rather large collection of Russian photographs...