The first excerpt below is a transcription from a cspan video of the conversation between nixon and khrushchev when they met to attend the exhibit. Halting khrushchev at model kitchen in model house. Soviet premier nikita khrushchev, center left, talks with u. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. The two leaders stage an impromptu kitchen debate, with each extolling the virtues and technological achievements of his respective ideology. Vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev left center engage in a discussion in front of a kitchen display at the u. Text of the kitchen debate between nixon and khrushchev. His son, mark, told on this day how his father captured the kitchen debate on one of the first video recorders. Instead, the contact sheets expose, they were laughing and having good time and from time to time also khrushchev was poking at nixon as well.
Soviet premier nikita khrushchev, milton eisenhower, and us vicepresident richard nixon at the free pepsi stand in sokolniki park, during the famous kitchen debate. The kitchen debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between u. During the tour, nixon and khrushchev had a series of exchanges through interpreters debating the relative merits of capitalism and communism, which are now known as the kitchen debate. The kitchen debate vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev u. The american national exhibition and kitchen debates. Embassy, moscow, soviet union both men enter kitchen in the american exhibit. This is a place for lovers of newsreels and history in general to post old newsreels they find. Richard nixon state visit ussr 1959 hd stock video 865477. Here is one of the first color video recordings and they show it in black and white.
How the worlds superpowers portrayed the events of the summer of 1959 to meet national needs abstract an undergraduate research paper centered on the investigation of american and soviet propaganda efforts during and immediately after the kitchen debate of 1959. The nixonkhrushchev kitchen debate was an iconic moment in the history of the cold war. Khrushchev and nixon drinking pepsicola getty images. The reality behind nixon and khrushchevs kitchen debate. This event took place in 1959, when vicepresident richard nixon w 1. Nixonkrushchev kitchen debate aufnahme bei cspan englisch. Kennedy in 1960 but was elected to the presidency in 1968 and 1972. Nixon ran unsuccessfully for president against john f. Transcript of the kitchen debate by hauenstein center. Includes eight highlights of speeches, beginning with the checkers speech from 1952, the debate with john f.
Nixon and khrushchev debated in a kitchen due to their differences in economic philosophies. The kitchen debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between then u. There is no complete record of all of nixon and khrushchev s conversations, and versions vary. Vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev.
Vice president nixon debates soviet premier nikita khrushchev in an american exhibition in moscow on july 25, 1959 time life collectiongetty. Cbs news presents the nixon khrushchev moscow debate, which had been recorded on ampex color video tape a day earlier, while vice president richard nixon opened the american national exhibition in moscow on july 24, 1959. Kennedy, inaugural address, nixon kruschev debate and his resignation. Vice president richard nixon during their famous kitchen debate at the united. Why did richard nixon and nikita khrushchev debate in a. Memo to president dwight eisenhower after meeting with soviet premier nikita khrushchev. During his tour nixon met soviet leader nikita khrushchev and the two men engaged in a spontaneous and, at times, heated conversation. Vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev at the opening of the american. Why did richard nixon and nikita khrushchev debate in a kitchen apex. Everybody thinks the debate was started in the kitchen. Richard nixon and nikita khrushchev, kitchen debate, july 24, 1959, cspan. The nixon and khrushchev kitchen debates from 1959 in full color.
Hewitt graduated cum laude with a ba in government from harvard in 1978. Khrushchev arrives in america a clip from cold war roadshow duration. The kitchen debate transcript 24 july 959 vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev u. He is president, ceo and general counsel of the richard nixon foundation.
People who liked nixonkhrushchev kitchen debate also liked these. Embassy, moscow, soviet union july 24, 1959 both men enter kitchen in the american exhibit. This download includes background, text and textdependent questions for the infamous, spontaneous kitchen debate in 1959. You can hear frank mcgees voice translating khrushchev. Hd stock video footage richard nixon and nikita khrushchev. The kitchen debate was an impromptu debate through interpreters between vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev at the opening of the american national exhibition in moscow, on july 24, 1959. If an image is displaying, you can download it yourself. Nixon and khrushchev stage kitchen debate in moscow. Unfortunately for nixon, khrushchev decided to dispense with the formalities and staged a delightfully bitchy political debate with the then vice president over the exhibit displaying a typical california kitchen. The video quality on this dvd is very poor while the original tape, which i have seen, is very good. Cbs news presents the nixon khrushchev moscow debate, which had been recorded on ampex color video tape a day earlier, while vice.
This historic film shows a portion of the kitchen debate. The kitchen debate took place in a number of locations at the exhibition but primarily in the kitchen of a suburban model house, cut in half for easy viewing. Vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev at the opening of the american national exhibition at sokolniki park in moscow on july 24, 1959. Some images display only as thumbnails outside the library of congress because of rights considerations, but you have access to larger size images on site. Nixon and khrushchev are photographed in front of a kitchen display the impromptu exchanges came to be known as the kitchen debate, july 24, 1959. It was undoubtedly one of the most unorthodox and therefore memorable settings for a major political debate. Nixon and khrushchev held publicized kitchen debate. In the end, mr nixon apologised for being a poor host and the two men agreed to thank the exhibit hostess for letting them argue in her kitchen. My dad videoed nixonkhrushchev debate phillip gundy was the man who turned the cameras on nikita khrushchev and richard nixon to film their historic exchange on 24 july 1959. Below is the transcript and a partial video excerpt from the famous kitchen debate, wherein a flustered nixon attempts to. The nixonkhrushchev kitchen debate 1959 in july 1959 united states vice president richard nixon visited moscow and undertook a tour of an american exhibition there. You had a very nice house in your exhibition in new york.
Vice president nixon squares off with soviet premier nikita krushchev. Khrushchev and nixon stopped in front of the kitchen display. Nixon was pointing out these things and then khrushchev would tell what his country had done. Why were consumer goods important symbols of progress for. During the grand opening ceremony of the american national exhibition in moscow, vice president richard nixon and soviet leader nikita khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and.
View kitchen debate between nixon and khrushchev vintage historic hd stock video footage in moscow russia soviet union, 1959. In fact, this is a film kinescope of an nbc news program about the kitchen debate. Richard nixon and nikita khrushchev have a kitchen debate. Vice president nixon and premier krushchev waged an impromptu debate on. Known as the kitchen debate, the conversation between the two leaders were in fact about cabbage soup versus red meat as the photographer elliott erwitt remembers in contacts documentary. Unsung icons of soviet design, michael idov argues that this debate, in the kitchen of the model home designed by architect andrew geller at the american national exhibition, helped spark a soviet consumer goods and industrial design explosion. Us vice president richard nixon 19 1994 right points at soviet premier nikita khrushchev 1894 1971 left during their kitchen debate, a verbal clash that occurred at a display of kitchen appliances at the opening of the american national exhibition in moscow, soviet union now russia. The kitchen debate was an offthecuff exchange between thenvice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev in 1959. The exhibition was formally opened this evening, with mr nixon passing on a message of goodwill from president eisenhower and mr khrushchev inviting the president to visit the ussr. It became known as the kitchen debate, because it took place in the kitchen of a model suburban u. Vice president nixon and premier krushchev waged an impromptu debate on the benefits of communism vs. Nearly 6 decades later, lessons from the nixonkhrushchev.
Nixon rose to national prominence as a communist hunter and member of huac in the 1950s. In july 1959, vice president richard nixon traveled to moscow to open the u. Nixon took soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev on a tour of the exhibit. This cold war document comes in both pdf and ms word format and has been made to fit perfectly onto one paper front and back for easy printing and copying. Kitchen debate transcript with guided questions nixon vs. He was vice president under eisenhower from 1953 to 1961 and defended american capitalism in the 1959 kitchen debate with khrushchev. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. Richard nixon presidential library and museum, used with permission of the richard nixon foundation and julie nixon eisenhower. Nixon suggested to the portly, combative khrushchev that the united states was ahead of.
The kitchen debate was an impromptu kind of affair, that. On july 24, 1959, vice president richard nixon and soviet premier nikita khrushchev spent hours publicly debating cultural ideology at the american national exhibit in moscow. Im pleasantly surprised that youve asked me, but ill run with that. After leaving harvard, he worked first for david eisenhower, then for former president richard nixon, as a researcher and writer in san clemente, california and new york.
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