Ike's nightmare summit at Paris. (Dwight David Eisenhower) (The U-2 Crisis - part 2)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: March 31, 1986 | Copyright information

IKE'S NIGHTMARE SUMMIT AT PARIS

Saturday, May 14, 1960. Before dusk "Air Force One' took off for Paris and the encounter with Nikita Khrushchev. Sometimes Eisenhower dozed, sometimes he read, sometimes he stared at the stars as the aircraft moved into night over the North Atlantic.

It had been 13 days since he learned that Francis Gary Powers had crashed at Sverdlovsk, a week since he learned that the pilot had been captured alive. In their attempt to preserve relations with Moscow and protect the U.S. government from embarrassment, high American officials had concealed ...

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