Khrushchev and Nixon trade insults during the Kitchen Debate on July 24, 1959. Credit to Library of Congress. William Safire — who’d later become an advisor and speechwriter for Nixon after ...

A fierce anti-communist, Nixon escorted the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev through various stalls before engaging him in a heated discussion, now known as the Kitchen Debate.

Nixon and Khrushchev went on to the exhibition’s most publicized display: a six-room, model ranch house with a central viewing corridor so that visitors can see the shiny new furnishings.

After praising Khrushchev as a “born leader of men,” Nixon noted that hundreds of times in the U.S.S.R. he had seen signs reading, LET us WORK FOR THE VICTORY OF COMMUNISM.

For seven weeks Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon have been riding the same campaign issue—foreign policy—in different directions. Kennedy’s main argument in his campaign has been to attack the ...

Nixon’s tough, unflinching “kitchen conference” with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last summer was matched by Lodge’s assignment as Khrushchev’s official companion during his U.S. tour. ...

"Khrushchev," said Radio Moscow on tour's eve, "is always on the go, ... he was the top Soviet official with the Nixon party during much of the Vice President’s trip.

Khrushchev helped Kennedy win the 1960 presidential election. During a visit to the Soviet Union in 1962, Salinger got into a discussion with Khrushchev on the subject of Richard Nixon.

For his part, genial Frol Kozlov, as Khrushchev’s understudy, was out to get a look at the Soviet Union’s chief competitor and potential enemy (his last known trip outside the U.S.S.R.: to ...