A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Khrushchev gave one gun to President Dwight Eisenhower and the other - the one that is for sale - to secretary of defense Neil McElroy. During his 12-day visit, Khrushchev declared his wish 'to ...

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev is seen shaking hands with Egyptian president Gama Abdel Nasser (C) as Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito (R) looks on, at the UN in New York, 1960. (credit ...

Khrushchev parried, dividing Berlin with a cement wall, barbed wire, and a line of army tanks. The enemies stared at each other across the wall, but the peace held. The President with Krushchev in ...

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no ...

And Kennedy defended himself limply. Timothy Naftali, Historian: Khrushchev wanted Vienna to be humiliating for the American president. That was the goal. There was nothing that Kennedy could say ...

President-elect Donald Trump has for the second ... former Soviet Union Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and former Supreme ...

He attempted the most daring penetration into this hemisphere, then back down in a global showdown before President Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis. In May of 1964, Khrushchev announced that ...

There Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tongue-ledged President Eisenhower over the issue of the American Spy Plane. He accused him of basing American foreign policy on treachery. Announcer ...