Word: khrushchevism
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...over the generals and the "metal eaters" by arguing that the arms race could lead not only to further economic strain but even to war. Johnson's spadework for the forthcoming talks began less than two months after he took office. In January 1964 he wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, calling for talks on controlling nuclear weaponry. Ever since, he has kept after Moscow with what an aide called "enormous, stubborn persistence." During his summit meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro, N.J., in June 1967, he urged talks on limiting the ruinously expensive development of anti-ballistic missile...
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...Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, reflecting on the U.S.'s determined response in 1961 to Khrushchev's threats to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany, cautioned his aides against any hasty action. Said Rusk: "We mobilized troops, we spent $6 billion, and when we looked around, nobody was there...
Remember the great debate in 1959, when Nilcita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon slugged it out over the dishwashers at a Moscow exhibition? Last week the ex-Premier, tanned and much trimmer at 74, ambled through another kitchenware show, Moscow's International Household and Services Equipment Fair. With Wife Nina, Nikita Sergeevich swapped memories and jokes with fairgoers and, though avoiding the U.S. Pavilion, strolled over to the British exhibit, where he reluctantly turned down a bottle of Scotch after Nina chirped in English, "Oh, no. He does not drink any more." That ban does not apply to suds, however...
Professional that he is, Oliphant does not let his political views get in the way of his craft. For that reason, he is genuinely sorry that a politician of such caricaturable assets as L.B.J. is leaving the scene. "Politics aside," he says, "losing Johnson is like losing Khrushchev." That still leaves Hubert Humphrey, of course. Because of the raw material he supplies a cartoonist, Oliphant would like to see him elected President: "It would give me four good years of fun." His last choice for President: Eugene McCarthy, whose patrician, well-chiseled face lacks a single exaggerated feature to exploit...