Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John F. Kennedy has spent his first 100 presidential days in learning such facts of cold war life. Instead of granting the six month lull that Kennedy had asked for, Nikita Khrushchev intensified the cold war, with guerrilla warfare in Laos, subversion in South Viet Nam, and increased arms shipments to Cuba-Propaganda Windfall. When the President tried to halt the Communist thrust in Laos by proposing a cease-fire and a neutral status, with official hints of a U.S. "response" if the Communists did not accept his plan, his countrymen gave him plaudits for his coolness and courage...
During those critical hours, John Kennedy to all outward appearances acted coolly. The day after the invaders landed, Kennedy responded forcefully to Nikita Khrushchev's message threatening to give Castro "all necessary assistance in beating back the armed attack." Dissatisfied with the answer drafted by the State Department, Kennedy dictated a reply himself. What was going on in Cuba, he told Khrushchev, was a "struggle for freedom" against an "alien-dominated regime." The U.S. "intends no military intervention in Cuba," but "in the event of any military intervention by outside force," the U.S. is ready to "protect this hemisphere...
...quite right, Nikita Sergeevich. I felt fine on the flight. Just like at home...
...unqualified success. He gets to his office promptly at 7:30 a.m., turns to his task with an unfettered spirit, and even his enemies admit that he is a superior civic greeter, ribbon snipper and proclamation signer. He achieved brief national fame in 1959, when he told Visitor Nikita Khrushchev off in no uncertain terms...
...Berlin crisis comes, in the view of such West Berliners as Mayor Willy Brandt, it will not be because of any whim or brinksmanship of Nikita Khrushchev's but because East Germany's satellite leaders have pushed Moscow into trying to rid them of a vexing, chronic embarrassment...