Richard Nixon 1959 Typed Letter Signed as Vice President - Concerning His Visit to The Soviet Union and Poland
37th President.
Typed letter signed "Dick" AS VICE PRESIDENT, Office of the Vice President stationery, 8×10.5, September 7, 1959, the letter written to "Jim" being San Diego newspaper publisher James Copley, marked “Personal”, in full:
Only the combination of long Senate sessions and a heavy traveling schedule since our return from the Soviet Union and Poland has kept me from getting this note off sooner to express my deep appreciation for your several contributions to the success of the trip.
The complete and generous coverage by the Copley Press, both editorially and in the news columns, was most gratifying, I can assure you. It was a pleasure to have Rembert James aboard as a member of the travelling press, and the suggestions he passed along as a result of his previous experiences in the Soviet Union were most helpful.
Herb, of course, did his usual superb job , and, because of the delicacy of situations which arose and conditions which were often adverse as far as the press corps were concerned, his skill, competence and counsel were even more valuable than would normally be the case.
I hope there will be an opportunity for us to get together for a personal visit in the near future. In the meantime, Pat joins me in sending our very best wishes to you and Jeanie.
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. vice president (later U.S. president) Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. An entire house was built for the exhibition which the American exhibitors claimed that anyone in the United States could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. The debate was recorded on color videotape, and Nixon made reference to this fact; it was subsequently broadcast in both countries.
Letters with direct reference to Nixon's landmark trip to the Soviet Union in 1959, the visit in which the "Kitchen Debate" occurred, are uncommon.
Usual folds, two file holes at top and staple holes in corner, else fine, nicely presented in a cloth folder.
37th President.
Typed letter signed "Dick" AS VICE PRESIDENT, Office of the Vice President stationery, 8×10.5, September 7, 1959, the letter written to "Jim" being San Diego newspaper publisher James Copley, marked “Personal”, in full:
Only the combination of long Senate sessions and a heavy traveling schedule since our return from the Soviet Union and Poland has kept me from getting this note off sooner to express my deep appreciation for your several contributions to the success of the trip.
The complete and generous coverage by the Copley Press, both editorially and in the news columns, was most gratifying, I can assure you. It was a pleasure to have Rembert James aboard as a member of the travelling press, and the suggestions he passed along as a result of his previous experiences in the Soviet Union were most helpful.
Herb, of course, did his usual superb job , and, because of the delicacy of situations which arose and conditions which were often adverse as far as the press corps were concerned, his skill, competence and counsel were even more valuable than would normally be the case.
I hope there will be an opportunity for us to get together for a personal visit in the near future. In the meantime, Pat joins me in sending our very best wishes to you and Jeanie.
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. vice president (later U.S. president) Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. An entire house was built for the exhibition which the American exhibitors claimed that anyone in the United States could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. The debate was recorded on color videotape, and Nixon made reference to this fact; it was subsequently broadcast in both countries.
Letters with direct reference to Nixon's landmark trip to the Soviet Union in 1959, the visit in which the "Kitchen Debate" occurred, are uncommon.
Usual folds, two file holes at top and staple holes in corner, else fine, nicely presented in a cloth folder.
37th President.
Typed letter signed "Dick" AS VICE PRESIDENT, Office of the Vice President stationery, 8×10.5, September 7, 1959, the letter written to "Jim" being San Diego newspaper publisher James Copley, marked “Personal”, in full:
Only the combination of long Senate sessions and a heavy traveling schedule since our return from the Soviet Union and Poland has kept me from getting this note off sooner to express my deep appreciation for your several contributions to the success of the trip.
The complete and generous coverage by the Copley Press, both editorially and in the news columns, was most gratifying, I can assure you. It was a pleasure to have Rembert James aboard as a member of the travelling press, and the suggestions he passed along as a result of his previous experiences in the Soviet Union were most helpful.
Herb, of course, did his usual superb job , and, because of the delicacy of situations which arose and conditions which were often adverse as far as the press corps were concerned, his skill, competence and counsel were even more valuable than would normally be the case.
I hope there will be an opportunity for us to get together for a personal visit in the near future. In the meantime, Pat joins me in sending our very best wishes to you and Jeanie.
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. vice president (later U.S. president) Richard Nixon and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. An entire house was built for the exhibition which the American exhibitors claimed that anyone in the United States could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. The debate was recorded on color videotape, and Nixon made reference to this fact; it was subsequently broadcast in both countries.
Letters with direct reference to Nixon's landmark trip to the Soviet Union in 1959, the visit in which the "Kitchen Debate" occurred, are uncommon.
Usual folds, two file holes at top and staple holes in corner, else fine, nicely presented in a cloth folder.