American Decades
"The Kitchen Debate"
Debate
By: Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev
Date: July 25, 1959
Source: Nixon, Richard, and Nikita Khrushchev. "The Kitchen Debate." July 25, 1959. Available online at http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?docume... ; website home page: http://teachingamericanhistory.org (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Authors: Richard Nixon (1911–1994) graduated from Duke Law School in 1934. After serving in the navy during World War II (1939–1945), he pursued a career in politics. Serving as a U.S. representative and then a U.S. senator, he eventually became the vice president for President Dwight Eisenhower (served 1953–1961). Defeated for the presidency in 1960, he ran again in 1968 and won. He is best remembered for the Watergate...
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
