He tried to buy a refrigerator from Nixon.
These are Masters of Illusion, whose jobs are made easy by virtue of their complete control of the MSM. This has been planned well in advance, that's why they insisted on an early debate to be used as a test run. DJT shouldn't have agreed to a debate until after their convention.
This may be central to one-party politics. I just recently watched the old, “Secrets of War”, narrated by Charlton Heston, on this and that was my thought.
One party means that there is no longer a formal and regular transfer of power. The people, also, have no say as to where and when.
Khrushchev was lucky that he had earlier repudiated Stalin’s atrocities and switched to simply retiring political rivals, rather than having them executed. When Brezhnev struck, it was with retirement and not the gallows.
I agree, there are some similarities here with respect to their downfall.
A significant difference is Khrushchev’s strength. He appeared to be a very strong leader and was in control of his faculties. Whereas Biden appears to be a puppet and obviously not in control of his faculties.
And I do remember Khrushchev pounding his shoe on a podium making threats.
Had the attempt succeeded, Biden would still be in...........
Khrushchev:
1. was a rather abusive guy who rubbed people the wrong way
2. wanted younger people to have a greater say at the top level
3. an old man who really didn’t want his tough job any more
read about 40% to 50% of the way down:
https://direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/24/1/78/109004/You-Don-t-Know-Khrushchev-Well-The-Ouster-of-the
He ran out of “table pounding” shoes?
Kennedy got him to back off ofCuba.
Khrushchev almost got them all killed in October 1962.
Because it was costing the Soviet too much in shoes.