Not Exactly the Great Kitchen Debate: The Rose Garden Putsch of 2009

By: Lords86 (Diary)  |  July 31st at 01:55 PM  | 

The Eisenhower Administration had the Great Kitchen Debate – two stalwarts, Nixon and Kruschev, locking horns in a pointed debate over the ideological divide which distinguished America from its communist adversary, the Soviet Union.  Unplanned, the debate became the symbol of the discourse which dominated post-war American-Soviet diplomacy, until the communist walls of oppression came tumbling down some thirty years later. We, of course, have | Read More »