![]() ![]() The president also made admissions that played right into the premier’s hands. ![]() Kennedy spent a lot of time defending aspects of the pre-World War II status quo, like British imperialism, that he didn’t actually want to defend. This got him stuck in time-wasting discussions about Marxism, where he was totally out of his league. Kennedy ignored warnings from his advisors not to do things like, say, debate communist ideology with a 61-year-old Soviet. “Compared to him, Eisenhower is a man of intelligence and vision.” “This man is very inexperienced, even immature,” Khrushchev told his interpreter. ![]() “He had no real idea how tough it was going to be… He went in there unprepared and Khrushchev walked all over him.” Yet despite Kennedy’s desire to be taken seriously, “he really didn’t listen closely to his own advisors,” Reeves says. ![]()
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