Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nixon gave hard answers to some obsessive Soviet questions that he had met with during his visit...
Reported the McClure Newspaper Syndicate's Trendex Poll, after sampling opinion while Nixon was in Russia: "Nixon's presidential prospects have been increased tremendously by his Russian visit." Replies to a standard Trendex question-"Do you think Richard Nixon or Nelson Rockefeller would get the most votes for the Presidency as the nominee of the Republican Party?"-showed a phenomenal Nixon upsurge...
...Nonsense." This jovial atmosphere cooled when Nixon & Co. were taken to visit the 16,000-ton Lenin, Russia's vaunted atomic icebreaker, and Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover asked to visit the ship's reactor room-only to be told that it was "closed" for the day. "Nonsense," snapped Atomic Expert Rickover, "the reactor room is never closed." From Nixon himself Rickover got the firm order: "You stay here an extra day if necessary, and say that it is our understanding that you see just as much as Kozlov...
...Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...
From cheering Novosibirsk, Nixon moved on to Sverdlovsk, where the Bolsheviks shot Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, then drove deep into the Urals to visit a copper mine and Russia's largest tube and pipe plant. At every log-cabin village and dusty crossroads, hundreds of peasants gathered to wave and cheer Nixon-and they stayed on for hours to do the same for the caravan of reporters and U.S. officials strung out along the road behind...