Word: formality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope and the President had several good laughs, and the best evidence is that this one came when the Pope, about to read his formal address in his newly learned English, prefaced it with the exclamation, "Ora ne senti una bella!" Translation: "This is going to be a beaut...
From that decision stemmed the explosive series of events by which 1959 would be long remembered?and which made Eisenhower the Man of the Year. On the morning of July 11, President Eisenhower drafted a formal proposal that Khrushchev visit the U.S. and suggested that the President travel to the Soviet Union. The letter was flown to New York by U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy and Deputy Assistant Secretary Foy Kohler, placed in the hands of the Soviet Union's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, about to return to Russia after a U.S. tour. It was kept...