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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was no playing of anthems, no crowd of the kind the U.S.S.R. can muster for a visiting Mongolian. Imperturbably, Nixon read through his short airport speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
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...
...what extent does this exhibition accurately present life in the U.S. as it really is?" Nixon asked. "Can only the wealthy people afford the things exhibited here?" The average U.S. factory worker, he said, can "afford to own a house, a TV set and a car in the price range of those you will see in this exhibit." Of the U.S.'s 44 million families, 31 million own their own homes. Those. 44 million families own 56 million cars, 50 million TV sets. He did not cite these statistics to boast of material wealth, said Nixon. "But what these...
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...
With the first toast of the evening, Nixon set a friendly tone for the gathering: "I want to say a word about Mr. Khrushchev on an occasion when I am representing the President of the U.S. Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Eisenhower are alike in one respect. They are both men who had humble beginnings and came to the top. The Prime Minister was once a miner. The President worked his way through school, and among his jobs was the back-breaking job of carrying...