Word: khrushchevism
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...first look. President Kennedy's decision to meet with Khrushchev seemed a hasty and perhaps dangerous effort to redeem recent U.S. failures in Southeast Asia, Cuba and other cold war hot spots. But, it now turns out, deep-secret negotiations for the Kennedy -Khrushchev confrontation began a mere three weeks after Jack Kennedy's inauguration...
...Thompson was in Washington for top-level consultations on U.S.-Russian relationships. He met lengthily in the White House with President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, State Secretary Dean Rusk, and three of his predecessors in Moscow: Averell Harriman, George Kennan and Charles Bohlen. The question of a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting came up-and the consensus was that it might be worthwhile. Thompson returned to Russia with a Kennedy letter expressing hope for a meeting, possibly in late spring, in a neutral European city. Thompson delivered the letter to Khrushchev in Novosibirsk, Siberia, on March 9 and got Khrushchev...
...March 27, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko went to the White House to see Kennedy, principally about Laos. Again the matter of a meeting of the two K.s came up, and Kennedy said he was willing. Two weeks later, Khrushchev took visiting U.S. Pundit Walter Lippmann aside in the garden of a villa in Sochi and confided the news...
After the Fiasco. All that happened before the Cuba fiasco and the sudden collapse of the Western position in Laos. Then Jack Kennedy had more than enough to cope with. On May 4 Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Russians wondered if Kennedy was still interested in seeing Khrushchev. With the report came hints that Khrushchev might even be willing to avoid talking about such embarrassing-to the U.S.-things as Cuba. Kennedy remained willing: he checked with Republican Richard Nixon, won Nixon's endorsement and the promise that Nixon would publicly approve a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting even...
...also cleared the Vienna meeting with Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's De Gaulle. Last week, just before President Kennedy flew off to Canada for a state visit, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov appeared at the White House with a letter reaffirming Khrushchev's interest in a meeting. Kennedy gave his consent...