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...Nikita Khrushchev was much more valuable. The U.S., long since disabused of the image of Nikita the Vodka-Slopping Peasant, already knew Khrushchev to be the skillful and dynamic leader of 200 million people. The U.S. found out, as Khrushchev boiled into successive rages in Washington, New York and Los Angeles (twice) before TV crowds of millions, that Khrushchev could also lay out a combination of uncontrolled willfulness, ignorance and ill temper. Above all, the U.S. found out last week that Khrushchev's New Course of Communism was the same Old Course; that his protestations of peace and friendship...
President Eisenhower, preparing to confer with Chairman Khrushchev this week at Camp David, Md., described to his press Conference in Washington the full measure of what was involved in the confrontation. Dedicated Communists, said Ike, believe that their system is a "progressive step in the long march of civilization. We do not. We do not have a real system; we have a way of life. We are concerned in giving every individual the maximum freedom to develop himself...
...pennant, as an old resident, will then welcome your pennant." Khrushchev's tone at this point was so pleasantly conversational that Ambassador Menshikov flashed a warm beam, but Khrushchev's pleasantness stopped at his ice-cold bullet eyes. The Facts of Life. Thus began what was, from Washington to Manhattan to Los Angeles to San Francisco, not so much a move to reduce world tension as a historic and tireless one-man campaign to cajole, flatter, wheedle, shame, threaten and defy the U.S. into changing its way of looking at the world...
Khrushchev defined it most bluntly in Washington: "There are only two nations which are powerful-the Soviet Union and the U.S. You people must accept the facts of life. You must recognize that we are here to stay." Khrushchev's argument: the U.S. must accept that fact and concede a "status quo" or "thaw" or "peace." It must close down its worldwide deterrent bases and disarm. It should reap the golden harvest of trade with Communist nations. It should leave to a furious peacetime competition the settlement of the classic feud between Communism and capitalism. Ultimately, he declared cockily...
...mark of his achievements, in the careful handling of no less than $375 billion, that Washington and the Pentagon hated to see him go. Said New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges: "Wilfred McNeil literally has saved the taxpayers of America billions of dollars. And yet comparatively few people in this country have ever heard of him." Wrote President Eisenhower last week to "Dear Mac": "All Americ?, joins me in saying to you, well done...