Eisenhower held out great hopes for Khrushchev's U.S. visit. As he began to look toward his final year in the White House he knew time was running out on his opportunity to end the Cold War.

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

There Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tongue-ledged President Eisenhower over the issue of the American Spy Plane. He accused him of basing American foreign policy on treachery. Announcer ...

In much the same tone, Khrushchev blamed the Eisenhower Administration for trying to nullify what he called “the certain thaw in relations between our countries that took place in connection ...

Historian and author Stephen Ambrose comments on the Paris Summit, during Eisenhower's presidency. I think the reason Khrushchev made such a big deal out of the U2 when he could have underplayed ...

Lord Bertrand Russell's “Open Letter to Eisenhower and Khrushchev” (New Statesman and Nation, Nov. 23, 1957), urging a summit meeting to consider “the conditions of co-existence,” provided ...

Eisenhower held out great hopes for Khrushchev's U.S. visit. As he began to look toward his final year in the White House he knew time was running out on his opportunity to end the Cold War.