7.24.59

Здравствуйте!: RN and PN arrive in Moscow for what would be a tense and historic trip. Photograph by Howard Sochurek for Life magazine. Fifty years ago today, Bill Safire knocked down a barrier and shouted to RN’s military aide Don Hughes: "This way to the...

The Diplomate

In the Soviet Union in 1959, as on all of RN’s Vice Presidential diplomatic trips abroad beginning in 1953, PN continued to break ground by pursuing her own independent and substantive schedule.   Her work was recognized by Life magazine with its 10 August...

That’s One Small Step For Oops….

Say What?:  “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” As Neil Armstrong later observed: “I didn’t intentionally make an inane statement . . . certainly the ‘a’ was intended, because that’s the only way the statement makes any...