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1950–1959
Feeding the Machine of Consumption
Richard Nixon: There are some instances where you may be ahead of us, for example in the development of the thrust of your rockets for the investigation of outer space; there may be some instances in which we are ahead of you—in color television for instance.
Nikita Krushchev: No, we are up with you on this too. We have bested you in one technique and also in the other.
Nixon: We do not claim to astonish the Russian people. We hope to show our diversity and our right to choose. We do not wish to have decisions made at the top by government officials who say that all homes should be built in the same way. Would it not be better to compete in the relative merits of washing machines than in the ...
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