Safire on Nixon, Khrushchev: "They Were Deadly Serious..."

In comments at George Washington University's "Face-off to Facebook" public diplomacy conference on July 23, 2009 in Washington, D.C., acclaimed columnist and author William Safire recalled how the Kitchen Debate took place in a "wholly different atmosphere" from today. "We forget how close a race it was," he went on, between the two superpowers. Safire stresses that the most important aspect of the Kitchen Debate and 1959 American exhibition in Moscow was that it provided the basis, for the first time, for Americans to communicate directly with the Soviet public.

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"The Golden Fog" would be a great title for the next book on the Cold War.