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...there were at least four powerful arguments against the meeting?the four sterile cold-war Summits during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, most notably the 1960 Paris meeting that broke up over the U-2 incident as soon as it began, and John Kennedy's unhappy Viennese deadlock with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. Also, Washington officialdom has a built-in predisposition against high-level meetings without detailed preparation and a concrete agenda. Finally, the Administration was opposed to a meeting that would strengthen Kosygin's hand in his Middle Eastern propaganda push, which was the main reason for his visit...
...future histories, Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev may be dismissed as a mere transitional figure. But in Russia's painful move from a malevolent monolith to a more responsible member of world society, he was essential. His Cold War contemporaries described him variously as a Red Hitler and a Jolly St. Nik, a shoe banger and a shrewd geo-politician. Before his ouster in 1964 by less colorful but more pragmatic men, Khrushchev had justified at least some of those descriptions: he denounced Stalin and initiated the cultural thaw in Soviet life; he built the Berlin Wall and wisely backed down...
...days as a commissar of the Moscow subway; did his war experiences turn him away from Stalin; did he become a "goulash Communist" only after the showdown in Cuba; why did he permit Brezhnev and Kosygin to ease him out? This book fails to answer those questions, but only Nikita can do the job-and he is unlikely to write his memoirs...
...tract in support of Goldwater, A Choice Not an Echo, became a motto for Goldwaterites, and now, said one of her followers, "the liberal rats" were out to get her. (Mrs. Schlafly claims that another of her tomes, The Gravediggers, was the major factor in the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev...
...which could not be-well. I loved him, I respected him, and when he was gone I have lost maybe a lot of faith." She lost a lot more as well: after Stalin's death in 1953 and his denunciation before the 20th Party Congress of 1956 by Nikita Khrushchev, Svetlana became an extension of the Stalin era and thus a liability to the Soviet leadership. "I had perhaps something what can be named as a privileged life," she said wryly. "But, as you know, people cannot live only by bread...