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A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
by Peter Carlson
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By sheer coincidence, the golfer was Senator J. William Fulbright, who
had invited Khrushchev to tea with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
the next day.
The premier was not as impressed by America’s traffic jams as Ike had
hoped, nor was he thrilled by the sight of grown men whacking a little
white ball around a manicured meadow. But he loved the helicopter. If this
was the modern statesman’s latest status symbol, Khrushchev wanted
one. In fact, he wanted more than one.
When he got home, the premier placed an order for three helicopters,
specifying that he wanted them to be just like Ike’s.
Excerpted from K Blows Top, by Peter Carlson, available now from PublicAffairs (www.publicaffairsbooks.com), a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2009.
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