The state visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the United States was a 13-day visit from 15–27 September 1959. It marked the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US. Nikita Khrushchev, then First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, was also the first leader of the Soviet Union to set foot in the Western Hemisphere.[1] Being the first visit by a leader of his kind, the coverage of it resulted in an extended media circus.[2]
- ^ "Nikita Khrushchev's Journey into America". kansaspress.ku.edu.
- ^ Carlson 2009, p. 247.
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