A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

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Premier Nikita ... in full swing. Khrushchev added that he was ready to have representatives of the U.N. "verify the dismantling of these {weapons{." In his letter to President Kennedy, he also ...

The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the seasoned communist Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The outcome was uncertain. Written and ...

Khrushchev gave one gun to President Dwight ... Eisenhower's successor as President, John F Kennedy, was in the White House when the missile crisis came to a head two years later.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...