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The Cold war
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In this program, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon argue the merits of democracy and communism in the impromptu Kitchen Debate, complete with on-screen translations. Also included are Nixon's fam...
In this program, Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon argue the merits of democracy and communism in the impromptu Kitchen Debate, complete with on-screen translations. Also included are Nixon's famous "Checkers" speech; a 1960 campaign address to Wisconsin farmers by Senator Hubert Humphrey; and the verbal showdown between Senator Joseph McCarthy and attorney Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped end McCarthy's political career.
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- Creator
- Payson, Parker
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2006], c1995
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (51 min.) : sd., col., digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781421316529
- OCLC
- ocn741357668
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on Sept. 23, 2006.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Richard Nixon's "Checkers" Speech (10:50) -- Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt (16:45) -- Nikita Khrushchev Versus Richard Nixon: The Post-Kitchen Debate (9:56) -- Election 1960 (5:28) -- John F. Kennedy: Television, Image, and the American Presidency (1:07)