In 1959, US Vice President Richard Nixon traveled to the capital of America’s communist arch-enemy, the Soviet Union. He was there to visit an American exhibition being held in the city; a house had been built as a set that the American designers claimed every family in America could pay for.
During their joint visit to the kitchen of this model unit, Khrushchev and Nixon debated each other on the merits of communism versus capitalism, using these developments to make their cases.
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