title: Kitchen Debate
abstract: In July 1959 Vice President Richard M. Nixon travelled to Moscow to meet with the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, and to attend the US National Exhibition. Soon after his arrival Nixon and Khrushchev found themselves embroiled in an impromptu ‘kitchen debate’ about the relative merits of their nation’s appliances. The debate became, and was interpreted as, essentially a discussion about the merits and flaws of capitalist and communist economies and political systems between two key leaders of 