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

David Halberstam helped create the archetype of the journalist as semi-god and truth teller. This was a myth and is now a ...

Kennedy struggled to get Diem ... The President with Krushchev in Vienna, 1961. Courtesy: U.S. Department of State. Khrushchev continued to probe for American weakness. In response to the ...

Kennedy (JFK) received this letter from ... as being “weak” in front of his Soviet counterpart Khrushchev when the two met in Vienna in June 1961, immediately after the CIA-sponsored invasion ...

Halberstam’s project, really, was an apologia for Jack Kennedy, a painstaking ... why he got crushed by Khrushchev in a June, 1961 summit in Vienna, and how the whole Vietnam disaster was ...

Rusk recalled the Kennedy-Khrushchev confrontation in Vienna: “In effect, Chairman Khrushchev said to this young President of ours, ‘Take your troops out of Berlin or there will be war.’ ...

He attended the Geneva summit conference in 1955 and the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting at Vienna in 1961. This week or next Dobrynin was to present his credentials to President Kennedy at the White ...

WHEN Lyndon B. Johnson became President he was something of a throwback to another time. He was a decade older than John F. Kennedy — just enough older to identify him with an earlier generation ...