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...Strange & Incomprehensible." One widespread Western response to Khrushchev's attack on the President was to wonder whether Nikita was "going nuts," as the New York Daily News bluntly put it. "On this assumption," wrote the New York Times's Arthur Krock, "the West must be prepared to protect itself from the very special menace of a deranged operator of a destructive military machine...
...Nikita Khrushchev is a man who came to power in the Stalinist school, who has dispatched his enemies with relentless political cunning and pressed the harsh realities of Soviet foreign policy from Berlin to Hungary, with tanks and troops. Viewed in the light of his aims, methods and past behavior, Khrushchev's outburst was a calculated tactical thrust that fitted into a sinister pattern of alternating promises and punches. Purpose behind the pattern: to destroy U.S. prestige around the globe by stirring doubt and divisions within the U.S., by straining the bonds between the U.S. and its allies...
Communists, said Lenin in 1919, must be prepared to "make very frequent changes in our line of conduct which to the casual observer may appear strange and incomprehensible." Communists continue to follow the Leninist doctrine of "very frequent changes" to create confusion and disunity among their enemies-and Nikita Khrushchev is a seasoned practitioner of the art. The "great flights" of attitude that President Eisenhower noted in him spring not just from an erratic personality, as is often thought, but from Communist tactics. It was in keeping with Leninist tactics that, following his threat-shouting, table-pounding press conference...
...Washington Teletypes blurted out the bulletins from Moscow, each new outburst of Nikita Khrushchev was brought immediately to the desk of Republican National ChairmanThruston Morton. Pondering the cables, Morton came to the tentativeconclusion that the Soviet dictator's tirades against President Eisenhower had improved the chances of the G.O.P. "Khrushchev has no friends in this country," he said. "It doesn't hurt to have him attack you." The Democrats agreed. Said Louisiana's Senator Russell Long: "I'm going to declare war on Khrushchev if he doesn't say the same thing about Lyndon Johnson...
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...