Rick Perlstein has a great piece on a time when America had character, when our leaders didn't dissolve into puddles of weakness but embraced openness as a trait of strength. He writes of the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the US. Khruschev hadn't threatened to wipe Israel off the map, but had threatened to wipe the US off the map, and had the weapons to do it.
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