Background Of Kitchen Debate

I want to show you this kitchen.

Background of kitchen debate. It is like those of our houses in california. Embassy moscow soviet union both men enter kitchen in the american exhibit nixon. The kitchen debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between u s. Richard nixon and nikita khrushchev kitchen debate july 24 1959 cspan.

This video gives a brief description of richard nixon s 1959 visit to the soviet union and nikita khrushchev s visit to the united states. The time is 1959. The characters are the vice president of united states who plans to run for president and the chief of the soviet union nikita khrushchev. The kitchen debate was a 1959 exchange between united states vice president richard nixon and soviet leader nikita khrushchev.

Trade and cultural fair in sokolniki park. In documentary contacts elliott erwitt the photographer of the most famous image of the kitchen debate remembers how events unfolded. Khrushchev surprised nixon when he launched into a protest over a recent resolution that had passed the u s. There is no complete record of all of nixon and khrushchev s conversations and versions vary.

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. We have such things. In this informal conversation conducted in moscow in front of press reporters and television cameras nixon and khrushchev engaged in some verbal tussling debating the merits of their respective ideologies. The debates were rebroadcast in both countries though the soviet broadcast did not translate some of nixon s remarks.

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. The scene is the american industrial fair in moscow. Vice president richard nixon then 46 and soviet first secretary nikita khrushchev 65 at the opening of the american national exhibition at sokolniki park in moscow on july 24 1959. In july 1959 vice president richard nixon traveled to moscow to open the u s.

An entire house was built for the exhibition which the american exhibitors claimed that anyone in the united states could afford. During their joint visit to the kitchen of this model unit khrushchev and nixon debated each other on the merits of communism versus capitalism using the technological developments of the age to make their arguments. Nixon points to dishwasher khrushchev. Congress condemning the soviet union for its control over the captive peoples of eastern europe.

In the kitchen of the exhibit s model house built by general electric.