Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world was now in for whatever cold strategy the Russians could devise. But the long-span view might be that Nikita Khrushchev had avoided a summit testing knowing that he was behind...
...leaf, a stone, the President's quest took him to Paris last week and what he had hoped was the unfound door. In the cabinet room of the Elysée Palace, he sat silent, his facial muscles taut, red splotches of anger flashing in his face, as Nikita Khrushchev slammed shut the door in his rage. Three hours later, Ike walked from the room. "For the first time since I gave up smoking," he said, "I wanted a cigarette just to give myself something to do." In the privacy of the U.S. embassy later, Ike loosed his pent...
...rudely announcing that he could not or would not negotiate with the U.S. until a new President is elected, Nikita Khrushchev waded right into U.S. politics. His humiliation of President Eisenhower was something that no American could tolerate, and Washington's first instinctive, shocked reaction was to unite behind the President. Like good coxswains, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson did what they could to get the Democrats to pull together with the Administration. Mister Sam clamped an iron rule of silence on one-minute opening speeches, traditional sounding board in the House...
...Nikita Khrushchev himself had undoubtedly not made his own last contribution to the U.S. campaign, and the warier political experts were not placing any final bets...
...some questions about Kirilyuk. The ex-G.I. and his wife, nervous anyway about the increasing baldness of the Russian proposition, told their story, then joined in arranging several more meetings with Kirilyuk, which the FBI observed. A key meeting took place Sept. 18, the day that Nikita Khrushchev was appealing for universal disarmament at the United Nations...