Nixon & Khrushchev, USSR Opening US Fair 1959/7/27

[JosephStalin11]

This is funny Nixon and kruchev are great leaders

[TheChromelover]

Khrushchev does not have any sophistication or refinement of a suave politician. He behaves like a rustic clown. But, I must say this - this man is very frank....he cannot fake anything; if he laughs, it is a genuine loud and hearty guffaw; if he argues, he does it vehemently. He has no inhibitions whatsoever. This is both good and bad, for a nation's leader

[mrvgmail]

Two loser countries 

[The1976spirit]

Celebrating his Watergate Nixon got rid of the personality cult of Maoism. Somewhere in the darkest rooms of the White House he enjoyed the chinese newspapers: "Such a great leader can be a fraud? China is screaming!" Haldeman ß Ehrlichmann had to calm down visitors, asking: "Is this the devil under the Oval Office laughing at the congress?"

The affair started when some suspicious Quakers created a sort of very irascoulous and bloodthursdy squirrels, to hunt for cat´s testicles---

[jcmontenegro1]

olha que meninos

[crislsd]

Nikita not predict what Leonid Brezhnev would do with the ussr

[hpmc9]

Krushchev: "we will pass you and wave 'bye bye'

Nixon: 'yeah right. you're a tiresome little commie, aren't you'

Krushchev: 'you will overspend so much for your military, that you will have to borrow from china. In 50 years, by 2009, you will celebrate China's 60th aneversury by lighting up the empire state building in red china's colors, becasue you cant afford to offend it'

Nixon 'go fuck yourself Nikita, and quit smoking so much dope - it's affecting your thinking'

[90sachs]

this is freakin hilarious man

[democrat8555]

he is a drank

[CapitalistPolitician]

EXCELLENT MR KHRUSHCHEV

[hughugh]

Nixon was a great man and a great president.

[Comrade1999]

he is a asshole

[harshvgaus]

khrushchev is a good man. he had the best for his nation at heart

[metallicakixtotalass]

@harshvgaus You know that saying about the path to Hell and the best intentions? Khrushchev had the right attitude for his country, but as far as deStalinization went he refused to believe that there was any fault in the Soviet system itself, and therefore any reforms he tried to enact never went far enough to make lasting changes, and he never realized that a centralized market economy could never compete with a Western market economy in providing the right consumer goods to the public.

[MattTheSaiyan]

No copy exists of the complete telecast. This newsreel clip is all that's left. Gee, it's bad enough they erased game shows, let alone political debates....

[lshurr]

Yeah. No sense of history. 'Course it was still early days for videotape, much less color.  They may have thought the long-term stability of the recording and durability of tape would be a problem, but if so, they should have kinescoped the recordings. On the other hand, maybe they were just cheap. "Hey! Should we keep these tapes?" "H*ll no! Videotape's REUSABLE!" How would you like to be the idiot who erased those tapes?" Me neither.

[luuko656]

Krushchyov is just an anoying bastard...

[TheNinetynine]

Although I HATE communists I must say that Khrushchev appears to be quite likeable in this video.

In a democratic country he may have been a rather popular politican.

[lshurr]

Compared to his predecessor -- Stalin -- he was a nice guy, but only on a relative scale. Make no mistake, he was actually a ruthless, brutal man, willing to do anything to accomplish his aims. He was a dedicated Marxist-Leninist, and probably believed the things he said, but that didn't make him right.

[BrezhnevIsMyCoPilot]

I enjoy how Khrushchev is simplified to "Mr. K" in the opening frame...

[prmass1]

this is a classic

[inutaishou111]

Where the hell is the color tape recording!!!!!??? I wanna see that one. It supposedly also has better sound quality

[DAVETYIOP]

Both of them played each other up.

[ddball1]

Nixon was a much better President than Kennedy could have been. IMHO

[SedanChair]

What an odious pair. Yet Nixon was sly where Khrushchev was boorish. In the end, both were forced from power, judged to be embarrassments.

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

Where the heck on this film are the VTR's?

[brianb500]

Nixon pulled the troops out of Vietnam, he started the war on cancer, he eased relations with the USSR and China.

I think he is given a hard time!

[inutaishou111]

Yeah, I guess Nixon deserves more credit than he is given.

[shumpie2002]

@brianb500 he esclated the war in vienam, he was corupt and was a dirty campainer, the name trickey dick was given to him by the woman he beat in 1950, very funny eveyonene he ran against he smered as being a commie! Nixion started the mondren way of repluican campaining, you can beat them on issue, smear them!

[lewisldurham]

Forget the politics, I wanna see the Ampex tape recorder. Where was it?

[pastaplanet5]

U believe the shit America has to put up with?!

[wotan20]

To be honest, Khrushchev was an Ukrainian peasant and it shows in his clownish manner of bluster and wild gesticulation. The Vice President outclassed his opponent, and carried himself with great dignity. The contrast could hardly be sharper.

[rofl1011]

what does that have to do with anything?

[BrezhnevIsMyCoPilot]

Yeah man, we should never let poor people have the chance to lead a nation, that would be like democracy and shit...

[quicksilvertruth]

Whilst yes, Krushchyov lacked any a formal education on the level of Nikion, he was an incredibly cunning and cleaver man.

One could argue that Nikion held himself with greater dignity, or that he was as fake as botox.

And that Kruchchyov was clownish and brutish, or honest and forth coming, whilst not giving anything away, and if Khrushchyov was just a peasant how did he become primer of the Soviet Union, he could hardly be called a puppet.

[wotan20]

You have valid points, and a good question 'quicksilvertruth'. Obviously presenting style and dignity abroad has been only one part of a national leader'a task. I'm not sure how did Hruschev risen to power before and after Stalin's death, or what characteristics he needed for qualifications. -Cont.-

[wotan20]

In any case, I believe nowadays he wouldn't be so conspicious with his manner. Heck he would've have a good time going with the US Vice President for quailhunting, or even with the President himself. they would happily clear some overgrown hedges in his Texas ranch and have beer afterward. ☺

[docjava]

Nixon seems pretty good in retrospect.

[rjshmo]

Nixon was a great man! And a greater President.

[hamshow]

Are you saying that with a straight face ???

[zenarcade64]

We all waived bye-bye to Nixon in 1974, Krushcheve predicted the future.

[Reggie1971]

It seems Nixon was the one who predicted the future about the downfall of communism.

[aquinasss]

I guess Khrushchev and his Commie nation is the one that waved bye bye.

[cluny]

I saw the color debate...a fragment of it on tv about 10 years ago...it also had a fragment of Jack Kerouac guest of Steve Allen in color...can't remember the show..but the 1959 color looked good, not a kinescope that looks muddy

[hunk4hire]

What a rude, ill-mannered, belligerent peasant, Krushchev truly was.

[mayalihamur]

a traitor with a killer...

[xenibucaj]

amerikan diplomacy my friends

[seinecle]

Excessively interesting.

[AntonBatey]

Khrushchev made better points in the full debate transcript. Khrushchev may have been a bureaucrat, but he made good points.

[aaronp01]

it's really a shame that the color version of the complete debate is lost.

[hez12]

YaH!!!