American University speech
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The American University speech, titled "A Strategy of Peace", was a commencement address delivered by United States President John F. Kennedy at the American University in Washington, D.C., on Monday,
President Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University, Monday, June 10, 1963.
John F. Kennedy – Presidential Portrait
Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Sovi
American University speech
…outreach to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and is remembered as one of Kennedy's finest and most important speeches. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev liked this speech so much that he ordered its full Russian translation published in Pravda and Izvestia, which was unprecendented at that time. After…
Official portrait, 1954
Khrushchev and his first wife Euphrasinia (Yefrosinia) in 1916
Khrushchev's second wife (though they only officially married in 1965) was Ukrainian-born Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, whom he met in 1922. Photo taken in 1924
Lazar Kaganovich, one of the chief enforcers of Stalin's dictatorship and Khrushchev's main patron.