Word: khrushchevism
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...Whichever course he chooses, say some Republican leaders, Nixon will probably never again get as good a shot at the presidency as in 1960. He ran as a sitting Vice President, more experienced than any of his predecessors in the job, was heralded as a well-publicized debater against Khrushchev and sponsored by an immensely popular President. In 1964 the argument of experience and continuity of office will be on the side of Jack Kennedy. Only twice in the 20th century have Presidents lost their second-term bids-Taft lost to Wilson, Hoover to Roosevelt...
...Europe, the full recognition of Kennedy's youth surprised. At 43, Kennedy could be the son of almost any of the world's major aging leaders. He can spot Khrushchev, Mao and Macmillan 23 years, De Gaulle 26 and Adenauer...
Esteemed Mr. Nikita Khrushchev, whose editorialists had played the election as "Tweedledum v. Tweedledee," did not even wait until all the returns were in to jump on the winning side. "Esteemed Mr. Kennedy, allow me to congratulate you," he cabled. "We hope that while you are at this post the relations between our countries would again follow the line along which they were developing in Franklin Roosevelt's time...
...almost effusive wire was less a tribute to Kennedy than a hint that Khrushchev was willing to bury his recent belligerence along with his scapegoat, Eisenhower. Izvestia called the election results a "terrible defeat" for the Eisenhower-Nixon policies of "worsening international tensions." A sharp dissenter in the Communist world: Red China, where the New China News Agency warned that while both candidates served "U.S. ruling circles," Kennedy would "greatly increase military spending and extend war preparations...
...Vnukovo airport, the well-padded commissars of the Kremlin whizzed back and forth last week like commuting suburbanites. Day after day they rode in portly twosomes to welcome the Communist bosses of ten satellites. One afternoon, a round dozen of them wheeled out, led by rotund Nikita Khrushchev, to greet the guest of honor, China's lean, scowling chief of state, Liu Shao-chi, 62. The presence of Liu and other rulers of Communist states barred from the U.N., as well as Communist Party chieftains from all around the world, made Moscow's gathering the biggest assemblage...