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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)

Over the past six months,the government runs much of the auto buisness and the banking system, they have appointed people to make "recommendations" about salaries in one industry, with eyes toward others. Our federal government is now trying to take over the medical care industry and control our energy supply. It wasn't always like that. There was a time when our leaders argued against an economy run by the government. Fifty-years-ago today, July 24, 1959 Richard Nixon was in Moscow for the opening of the American National Exhibition, an entire house built to show Russians the "fruits" American capitalist labor....