Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan had worked--and it came fearfully close--Nikita Khrushchev, the bellicose Premier of the Soviet Union, would in one mighty stroke have changed the power balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
Kennedy shattered those illusions. He did it with a series of dramatic decisions that swiftly brought the U.S. to a showdown not with Fidel Castro but with Khrushchev's own Soviet Union...
...NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV 1957 Repudiating Stalin and launching Sputnik...
MISSION: High-altitude voyeurism. The reconnaissance plane collects multisensor photo, electro-optic, infrared and radar imagery--day or night and in all kinds of weather. It's been used to peek at everyone from Khrushchev to Castro to Ho Chi Minh, left. Among its more benign photo ops: floods, volcanoes and crops...
...wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...