Summits are tricky: Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan learned the hard way
Eli Stokols Tribune Washington Bureau (TNS)
WASHINGTON — In his 1961 inaugural address, President John F. Kennedy spoke about the possibility of daring diplomacy to thaw even the coldest of relationships: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.â€
Those words, often cited by President Barack Obama, could also be repurposed by President Donald Trump — if the 45th president were into quotations — as he embarks on the highest-stakes U.S. summit in a generation, sitting down in Singapore Tuesday with Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
But Kennedy’s most consequential summit, which came just months into his presidency, was an unmitigated disaster, according to historians.
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Posted at drudge.
Might be worth reading.
Khrushchev came to America before JFK was elected in 1959. He went across the US, something like that.
https://www.macleans.ca/culture/when-k-came-to-america/
