State visit by Nikita Khrushchev to the United States
1959 state visit of a Soviet leader
State visit by Nikita Khrushchev to the United States
Nikita Khrushchev paid a state visit to the United States from 15 to 27 September 1959. It marked the first state visit of a Soviet leader to the United States. 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. Being the first visit by a leader of his kind, the coverage of it resulted in an extended media circus.
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