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Lessons were learned from the Cuban invasion failure, the Berlin Wall and a meeting with a scornful Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Kennedy discovered that both private joy and public acclaim were to be found in working for a nuclear test ban treaty, which was signed with the Soviets in 1963. A few weeks before his death, J.F.K. roamed the country polishing up a speech on the treaty as a pre-1964 campaign maneuver. The folks loved...
Harlow talks knowingly about the dynamics of crises. External threats, like Nikita Khrushchev's bullying of Ike after the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane in 1960, rally the nation and the Government round a President. In a major domestic crisis, like the Depression of the 1930s, Congress tends to quit and turn to the President to save the country, says Harlow. But in a moderate-size domestic crisis, such as the one we have now, Congress will, if allowed, obstruct and usurp the President...
...sooner and sometimes later. Franklin Roosevelt had no idea when he was taking his oath of office in 1933 that in a hundred days he would remake the U.S. Government. John Kennedy, enamored of foreign affairs, suddenly had the civil rights storm breaking around his head, and instead of Nikita Khrushchev he was trying to figure out Police Chief Bull Connor and his Birmingham dogs. Maybe Richard Nixon, the old Commie fighter, could see down the road three years to the day when he would be in Peking toasting his Chinese enemies and then in Moscow talking about limiting nuclear...
...spite of these setbacks, the Soviet planners seem determined to furnish the people with enough bread and to prevent the mass slaughter of livestock for lack of feed grains. President Leonid Brezhnev is unwilling to risk a repetition of the demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
...Barth kept berating the West for its nuclear buildup and its cold war mentality. But privately, as the book reveals for the first time, he wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...