Original caption states: “Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev debate at the American Exhibition in Moscow. They stand in front of a reproduction American kitchen during the exchange.”
In July 1959, Eisenhower sent Nixon to the Soviet Union to represent the United States at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, the Soviet capital. While touring the exhibit with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, the pair stopped at a model of an American kitchen. There they engaged in an impromptu discussion about the American standard of living that quickly escalated into an exchange over the two countries’ ideological and military strength. Nixon’s performance in the “Kitchen Debate” further raised his stature back in the United States.
