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...second generation Bolshevik, Kozlov was born in 1908-three years after the first big uprising against the Czar-in the village of Loshchinino. Ryazan province. His parents, he says, were poor farmers who owned their land but had to piece out their living by working at a nearby textile factory. At 15, Frol went to work in the textile plant and at 18 became a member of the Communist Party, which sent him off to a worker's school and later to Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Engineer Kozlov served for a time as foreman in a steel plant...
...Case." Kozlov's climb to the big time paralleled the infamous purges that constituted the so-called "Leningrad Case" of 1948-49, when Stalin Protege Georgy Malenkov directed liquidation of Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov. When the pall lifted, there, mysteriously, was Frol Kozlov, party leader of the city. Good Communist Kozlov kept his nose clean, and in 1953 First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did him the honor of traveling all the way to Leningrad to install Kozlov as party leader for all of Leningrad region...
Step by step, Kozlov climbed, until February 1957, when he became a candidate member of the Communist Central Committee's powerful Presidium. It was in this capacity that Kozlov, skilled in the ways of Kremlinfighting, is reputed to have saved Khrushchev's neck by rallying the 130-man committee and, in so doing, helping Khrushchev to defeat the Malenkov-Molotov-Kaganovich wing of the party. That was in June 1957; that same month Kozlov was awarded full membership in the Presidium. Less than a year later, Khrushchev made him First Deputy Premier, ranking him with the crafty Armenian...
Nixon-style, he would thrust his hand at surprised tourists, introduce himself, pat the heads of little children. Few knew who he was, but he was eager to autograph any handy piece of paper, insistently got himself photographed by camera fans ("Send the picture to me. Kozlov, the Kremlin, Moscow"). Accosting one woman during a supermarket tour, he asked whether she was the mother of a child who was with her. "No," replied the elderly woman. "I'm a grandmother." "Ah," roared Kozlov, "but you are so young...
...fine, enthusiastic form at a Blair House reception held by Richard Nixon in his honor. To the State Department's Cultural Exchange Boss William Lacy, who showed up with a broken finger, Kozlov quipped that the accident was from an "EastWest handshake." When Nixon introduced House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck as "a tough politician, like you," Kozlov boomed a laugh. He smiled when he called Electrical Workers' Union Boss James Carey a "tradeunion bureaucrat." Introduced to little (5 ft. 10 in.) House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Kozlov observed that Rayburn's opposite number in the Soviet Union...