Word: khrushchevism
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...said Gates. When the news first broke, he advised the President that if Khrushchev knew all about the U-2-and at that time, the U.S. had no information that Pilot Powers had been captured-it would be better that "the presidency should not be involved in an international lie, particularly when it would not stand up with respect to the facts." After Herter's disclaimer of presidential responsibility, Gates recommended that the President should take full responsibility. Ike did reverse the U.S. line again and publicly take the blame...
...Gates had just learned, with the President, that Khrushchev planned to scuttle the conference. "This communications alert was not an act that was either offensive or defensive. It was a sound precautionary measure." He cleared it with Ike, notified Secretary Herter, then flashed the word to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No troops were recalled from leave, nor were any forces moved, though some local commanders took optional precautions (a Denver TV station put out a "scramble" call to fighter pilots). "Under the circumstances," said Gates, "it seemed most prudent to me to increase the awareness of our unified commanders...
...delegates, with a good chance of picking up six more (and with them, after the first ballot, control of the unit-rule delegates) by convention time. At a testimonial dinner for Governor Pat Brown in Los Angeles, Johnson's impassioned plea for national unity in the face of Khrushchev's threats brought his audience to its feet in an ovation, and-according to the experts-added 15 to 20 delegates to his California score. But in New Mexico Johnson suffered a setback when Kennedy personally led a raid on the state convention and carried off six or seven...
Just as Stalin's aggressiveness inspired the birth of NATO in 1949, Khrushchev's aggressiveness was defeating its own purposes in Western Europe in 1960. On both sides of the English Channel last week, a post-summit reappraisal of power realities was subtly nudging forward the prickly cause of European unity...
...usual, when blustering his worst, as he did last week, Nikita Khrushchev also exhibited his peace-loving side. This time it was a 5,600-word Soviet plan for "complete and generaldisarmament," sent to all 82 members of the U.N. The new plan, Nikita let it be known, was one that he had intended to present in Paris had Dwight Eisenhower not "wrecked the summit." He would hardly have made much headway with it there...