"The Kitchen Debate" - Richard Nixon vs. Nikita Khrushchev 50 Years Ago - Video 7/24/1959

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 24, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Fifty years ago today, July 24, 1959, Vice-President Richard Nixon engaged in what is called the "Kitchen Debate" with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in which they debated back and forth on the virtues of Capitalism and Freedom and Soviet-style Communism. For all of Khrushchev's bluster, here we are 50 years later, and the United States is still the world's greatest superpower, and the Soviet Union is no more.

Below is a video clip of the two debating, and then a longer audio clip of their debate . . . . . (Watch Video)

[Mr. Silverback]

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[wideminded]

I always thought that this was an interesting picture, with Brezhnev in the background.

[niteowl77]

I did a double-take when I saw some John Deere corporate ephemera "commemorating" the 50th anniversary of Kruschev's visit. Big Green celebrating a Big Red! If they wanted to remember socialists in agriculture, they could have googled up some obscure anniversary for Henry Wallace or Roswell Garst, but I suppose those two were pretty small potatoes (or any other agricultural commodity) compared to Nikita.

(Who, during his visit, stayed overnight in my hometown... which so far has not scheduled a "Kruschev Slept Here" Day celebration.)