Vice President Richard Nixon in Moscow
I n 1959, at the height of the Cold War, Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to Moscow to open Americas National Exhibit. After sipping Pepsi-Cola, Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev got into a heated discussion of the relative mer- its of Soviet and American societies. Stand- ing in the kitchen of a model American home, they talked dishwashers, toasters, and televisions, not rockets, submarines, […]