Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reached over the head of the U.S.S.R.'s rulers, particularly in a remarkable speech on Soviet TV (see Foreign Relations) to get across to the Soviet people the U.S. side of the cold-war story...
...Made clear to the Soviet people that the U.S. wants peace and friendship (mir i druzhba) with their country...
...President who sent him. First, it was a performance of sheer physical endurance that only a fairly young and rugged man could have withstood: It was a grueling test of his person-to-person debating skill, of his way with crowds, of his knowledge and understanding of the Soviet Union and-fundamentally-of his knowledge and understanding of his own nation. To the thousands of Russians and Poles who saw him, Nixon was the personification of a kind of disciplined vigor that belied tales of the decadent and limp-wristed West...
...Vice President of the U.S. sat down gravely in a straight-backed, upholstered chair in a Moscow television studio one night last week. He placed a manuscript on the oval table before him, and on signal, began to read to a Soviet Union television and radio audience of millions the most remarkable speech they had ever heard from a foreigner...
Back from his swing through the Urals and Siberia, Nixon had gone into seclusion at the U.S. embassy for two days to draft the speech for what he saw as an unprecedented opportunity to speak plainly about Soviet-American relations. He sweated his first draft of 5,000 words down to 2,000 to fit into half an hour, with another 30 minutes' time for translation. At his side as he spoke was his own interpreter, the U.S. State Department's Alexander Akalovsky, charged with translating in the most effective way possible-thought by thought, but never more...