On this day in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the United States. His two-week trip during a lull in the Cold War included summit meetings with President Dwight D.

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The young Vice President of the United States standing up to the bullying Russian tyrant, his right index finger literally poking Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the chest. For the rest of his ...

In 1959, as the Cold War took hold but two years before the Berlin Wall was erected and three years before the Cuban missile crisis, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U ...

The rest of us have to be ever more cautious—lest Khrushchev's dire warning come to pass, six decades after he made it.

Dishwashers and microwaves? Meh. Khrushchev assured Nixon that Russia would outpace the United States within a few years: “This is what America is capable of, and how long has she existed?

Former United States President John F. Kennedy (R) meets with Nikita Khrushchev in June 1961. Khrushchev would have thought Putin’s Crimea invasion out of line, says the Soviet leader’s great ...

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Premier Nikita Khrushchev: "(Russian.)" Interpreter: "Esteemed citizens of the United States, in a few hours our plane will be leaving American soil, and I want to express my thanks once again to ...