Irv Gellman on the Behind the Scenes Story of the Kitchen Debate

This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the famous Kitchen Debate between then Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev. On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, Nixon biographer Irv Gellman talks the behind the scenes story of this historic event. Dr. Gellman is author of The Contender: Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952 and the President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961. Read the Transcript: https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2019/06/irv-gellman-behind-scenes-story-kitchen-debate/ Photo: Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev debate in a model of an American kitchen at the American exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park on July 24, 1959. (AP Photo) Interview by Jonathan Movroydis.