He firmly opposed a proposed U.S. visit by Nikita Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on the ‘Kremlin gangsters’ and dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe:
In 1958 Secretary John Foster Dulles firmly opposed a proposed U.S. visit by Nikita Khrushchev, warning it would confer recognition on the "Kremlin gangsters? and dispirit the captive people of Eastern Europe. Dulles symbolized the hard line anti-Soviet position. Dulles died in 1959 and later in the year Khrushchev visited the U.S. and a spirit of coexistence between the U.S. and Soviet Union began to flower.
