Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Daily News's Frank Holeman. nodding sleepy-eyed over a glass of white Georgian wine in Sverdlovsk's Grand Urals Hotel. His sentiment was shared by all of the 73 U.S. newsmen accompanying the most tireless tourist ever to visit Russia: Vice President Richard Nixon. "[The other] tourists encountered along the way are regarded by now rather enviously as a happy, carefree lot," cabled the Washington Star's European Correspondent Crosby Noyes. "For them there are, presumably, no pre-dawn departures, no missed meals, no ghostly excursions into the night in search of elusive telegraph offices...
...dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...unscathed. Glavlit, the Soviet censorship agency, combed some of the outgoing cables carefully, eliminating, among other things, mention of its own blue-pencil activity. The American Broadcasting Co. was ruled off the international air in Moscow" for "tampering" with Khrushchev's lines in his famed kitchen debate with Nixon at the American exhibition-a charge that the U.S. State Department promptly rejected...
Russian TV viewers got a garbled version of the same dialogue. Many of Nixon's remarks were not translated at all; in Pravda the vice presidential contribution was cut to five sentences. Pravda edited Khrushchev too, but judiciously, e.g., his patently false boast that Russian workers could afford the U.S. exhibition's $14,000 demonstration home. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "There can be no doubt that the Russian version aimed at presenting [Nixon] as a feeble and defensive debater in the face of a righteous and rumbustious Mr. Khrushchev...
Chattanooga ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in full, together with some hot-tempered letters from readers: "It is not necessary to exaggerate, Mr. Nixon...