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

David Halberstam helped create the archetype of the journalist as semi-god and truth teller. This was a myth and is now a ...

Four months after the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting in Vienna, tensions escalated on October 30, 1961, when the Soviets tested a 50-megaton nuclear bomb in the Arctic. “Khrushchev was eager ...

Now that the Trump administration is avowedly in favour of peace with Russia, invoking JFK's memory works in their favour.

Kennedy, and the Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna. Read more: Trump and Zelensky: when face-to-face diplomacy goes wrong it can be disastrous – especially if the whole world is ...

Kennedy's 1961 trip to Europe ... The next stop is Vienna, Austria for a two-day meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, and the final destination is London for meetings with British ...

which followed a meeting between the young president and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. The meeting during the height of the Cold War was described as “bruising”. With Mr Kennedy ...

During the inconclusive Vienna Summit on 4 June 1961, Kennedy met Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary and Premier of the Soviet Union, which led to the construction of the Berlin Wall by the East ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Health and Human Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday he will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs from the Cabinet department in a dramatic reduction that includes closing half ...

The national-security communications snafu shows a government in the hands of immature bros.