Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon, who had not yet quite caught on to the Khrushchev doctrine of any debate, anywhere, tried politely to turn the conversation to the color TV. But Khrushchev would not be turned...
Powerful Personification. Yet within what may be remembered as peacetime diplomacy's most amazing 24 hours, Vice President Nixon became the most talked about, best-known and most-effective (if anyone can be effective) Westerner to invade the U.S.S.R. in years. Officially, he was in Moscow to open the fabulous U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. But Nixon did much more: he gave sharp point to the glittering achievement of the fair because-on Communism's home grounds-he managed in a unique way to personify a national character proud of peaceful accomplishment, sure...
Shortly before noon, Nixon and Khrushchev turned up at the U.S. exhibition in Sokolniki Park, posed for pictures with the gold-colored dome of the central building gleaming in the background, then set off on a tour of the exhibits. They paused to test new TV equipment that enabled them to speak in front of a TV camera and then, right afterwards, to see themselves on a TV screen and hear a tape playback of their voices. As the camera turned his way, Khrushchev, wearing his floppy straw hat, looked sour. Said Nixon: "You look quite angry...
...another seven years," he boasted, "we will be on the same level as America." Russians standing near by broke into applause as he added that the Soviet achievement was worth bragging about. Nixon, getting into the Khrushchev spirit, replied that there should be "far more communication and exchange in this area that we speak of. We should hear you more on our television, and you should hear us more on yours." He added that Khrushchev "should not be afraid of ideas...
...Nixon: Well, let's have more exchange of them, then...