Word: khrushchevism
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Republicans. For the moment, at least, Khrushchev's crude belaboring of the Vice President was helping him. The U.S. public's clearest image of Richard Nixon is of an intense, finger-waving man arguing with Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of the U.S. exhibit at Moscow's Sokolniki Park in the summer of 1959; his Gallup poll soared on his return from Moscow-after which, predictably, it dropped. Almost as clear is the image of a man inextricably identified with Eisenhower's foreign policy-a picture which caused Nixon's friends to miss...
Democrats. Because Khrushchev's virulent attacks on the President were interpreted as insults to the nation, Democrats found it increasingly tricky to fault the Administration. Events moved so swiftly that a candidate had to take care with every word, lest a critical statement made in one context bounce back to bruise him in another-as Jack Kennedy discovered. Still the Democratic pacemaker, Kennedy was beginning to regret a remark tossed off in Oregon right after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident...
Lyndon Johnson swung into the offensive. On his own delegate-hunting safari through the West, he won the loudest applause by booming out: "Would you apologize to Khrushchev?'' Invariably, the audiences boomed back: "NO!" Back in Washington, L.B.J. studied the Moscow cables as carefully as the G.O.P.'s Thruston Morton had-and made fast political capital of them. Shortly after Khrushchev's latest blast, Johnson took to the Senate floor. "Premier Khrushchev has launched a verbal attack upon our President which reached new heights of vituperation," he cried. "The incident underscores the fact that the nation...
...effectiveness for leadership of the present Administration in Washington has been impaired if not destroyed," he told the Textile Workers convention in Chicago. "We must make it plain that peace and disarmament are the paramount goals of our foreign policy . . . Why was total disarmament proposed last fall by Khrushchev and not the President of the U.S.?" He also had soft words for the Kremlin's newest version of its old disarmament proposal, saying: "I'm far more interested in Khrushchev's positive proposals than whether he's taking a soft or hard line at the moment...
...knew that the U-2 had a secret intelligence mission, testified Dr. Hugh Dryden, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but had no detailed information. After Khrushchev's first announcement that Russia had shot down the U2, reporters bombarded Dryden for the story. He called CIA, got the dusted-off cover story, and put together the statement that the plane was lost on a weather flight. "I was told that these statements had been cleared by CIA with the State Department. I did not independently check that fact." What nobody had bothered to tell Dryden...