19591776 Club
Khrushchev steps onto American ground; no Soviet leader had ever done it before
He heads straight to the White House to meet Eisenhower the same afternoon.
No leader of the Soviet Union had ever set foot in the United States. On September 15, 1959, Nikita Khrushchev landed at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington and was driven to the White House to meet President Dwight Eisenhower that same day. The two-week trip that followed took Khrushchev to American farms and factories, but but it opened with a handshake between two men whose countries had spent the decade preparing for war with each other…
