Mar 26, 2014 | Kitchen Debate, News, The New Nixon
Vice President Nixon holds a Russian child while visiting the Soviet Union in 1959. In a historiographical essay published in A Companion to Richard M. Nixon, historian Irwin F. Gellman noted, few historians “have published anything on the genesis of Nixon’s evolution...
Jul 24, 2013 | Communism, Foreign Policy, Kitchen Debate, News, Russia, Soviet Union
In 2009, William Safire—former speech writer for President Nixon—recalled in his New York Times piece “The Cold War’s Hot Kitchen,” the gaggle of reporters and general pandemonium surrounding the 1959 debate between then Vice President Nixon, and Soviet Premier...
Feb 19, 2013 | Kitchen Debate, News, Vice President Nixon
As apart of the opening tour of the Richard Nixon Centennial exhibit, Patriot. President. Peacemaker Friday, youngsters from the local Boys and Girls Club learned about Vice President Nixon’s trip to Moscow in 1959, and his face-off with Soviet Premier Nikita...
Sep 23, 1959 | Communism, Kitchen Debate, Nixon TV, Soviet Union, Vice President Nixon
[youtube https://youtu.be/XRgOz2x9c08] September 23, 1959: Vice President Nixon squares off with Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev.
