“Isn't it better to talk about the relative merits of washing machines than the relative strength of rockets? Isn't this the kind of competition you want?”

—  Richard Nixon

Remarks to Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev during the Kitchen Debate (24 July 1959)
1950s

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