A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile ...

And Kennedy defended himself limply. Timothy Naftali, Historian: Khrushchev wanted Vienna to be humiliating for the American president. That was the goal. There was nothing that Kennedy could say ...

Four months after the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, tensions escalated on October 30, 1961, when the Soviets tested a 50-megaton nuclear bomb in the Arctic. “Khrushchev was eager ...

Miracles being unavailable, the meeting in Vienna produced perhaps the next ... might be made in the procedure next time Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev meet would be to dissuade such vast numbers ...

"A Different Russia" by Marvin Kalb Kennedy proved to be Khrushchev's last chance for a meaningful boost in Soviet-American relations. They met for one summit in Vienna in June 1961. After two ...

Kennedy felt buildup of a military arsenal ... having sort of lost the debate, so to speak, in Vienna with Khrushchev, being under the gun in relation to Berlin, he feels he can't step aside ...

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