Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward the end of the tour, on the gravel walk leading to Khrushchev's limousine, his hosts had set up a table stocked with California champagne and white and red wines. Nixon chose red wine, Khrushchev white. "A good wine," he said. Then he raised his glass and proposed a toast: "To the elimination of all military bases on foreign lands." Milton Eisenhower, who had not quite heard the translation, almost drank but stopped the goblet at his lips. The smile stayed on Nixon's face, but he did not raise his glass. "I am for peace...
...Nixon: We will talk about that later...
Khrushchev drank to Nixon's toast. At that point a Russian waiter raised a glass and proposed "one hundred years to Premier Khrushchev...
...Nixon: One hundred years of life. I will drink to that. We disagree with you, but we want you to be in good health...
...Nixon: You mean that at 99 you will still be in power? No free elections...