Video: 'The Kitchen Debate (Nixon and Khrushchev, 1959) Part I of II'

(Friday, July 24, 1959; during the Cold War) — U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev held a series of impromptu exchanges, dubbed the Kitchen Debate, today at Moscow’s Sokolniki Park, where the American National Exhibition was being held.

Video: 'The Kitchen Debate (Nixon and Khrushchev, 1959) Part II of II'

The exchanges reached a high point a display of a model kitchen, where Khrushchev and Nixon argued, through interpreters, over the merits of communism and capitalism.

Video: 'Television & the Presidency Part 3' (July 24, 1959, at 4:53)

They also had an exchange before the color cameras in the television studio of the exposition.