In 1960, Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev heckled and thumped his desk during British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's speech to the U.N.
There Zhukov was open to ideas of reducing nuclear weapons, initially impressing Khrushchev with his willingness to downsize the massive Soviet military.
Kennedy, intent on mining all the data before his first meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, asked his advisers what the Russian ate for breakfast.
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Nikita Khrushchev hated putting things in writing because he couldn't spell.
He also thought it made sense to accept Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's call to take 15 intermediate-range U.S. Jupiter missiles out of Turkey as part of the deal.
Khrushchev concluded that because the Americans hadn't listed the missiles on their list of demands, the Soviet Union's interests would be well served by keeping them in Cuba.
In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent a note to President John Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if the United States closed its bases in Turkey.
From 1959, when Mr Hall became leader of the American party, he made yearly visits to Moscow and was received with ceremony by Russian leaders from Nikita Khrushchev onwards.
British intelligence were very measured and detached, and they didn't think the Russians, because they were rational people - Khrushchev was impulsive but he wasn't mad - would ever do it deliberately.
After her 1953 coronation, she embarked on numerous official trips, oversaw state openings of parliament, welcomed visiting leaders such as President Eisenhower, Charles de Gaulle and Nikita Khrushchev, and toured a coal mine.
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Fearing that Castro's hurt pride and widespread Cuban indignation over the concessions Khrushchev had made to Kennedy, might lead to a breakdown of the agreement between the superpowers, the Soviet leader concocted a plan to give Castro a consolation prize.
This extended the known missile crisis well beyond the weekend of 27-28 October, the time that had always been thought of as the moment the danger finally lifted with the deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev to withdraw the Soviet missiles in exchange for a US promise not to invade Cuba.
The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
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