EISENHOWER REBUTS KHRUSHCHEV ON ROLE OF MOSCOW IN '60 VOTE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: July 31, 1967
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Eisenhower Rebuts Khruahchev
On. Role of Moscow in '60'. Vote
WASHINGTON, July 30 (UPI)
-Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower dismissed as "silly"
today Nikita Khrushchev's
olaim that the Soviet,Union as-
sured Richard M. Nixon's de-
feat in the 1960 Presidential
election.
"I think he made up some-
things," the general'said of, the
former premier..
. In a televised interview July
11, Mr. Khrushchev said Mos-
cow had "made" ? John F. Ken-
nedy President when it ignored
appeal by Mr. Nixon for the
release of Francis Gary Powers,
the captured U-2 pilot.
He said this had deprived Mr.
Nixon of the 200,000 'votes he
needed to defeat Mr..Kennedy.
On the television show Is-
sues and Answers, carried by
the American Broadcasting
Company, General Eisenhower
said, Mr. Khrushchev had be-
came angry in Paris when he
told him: "If you think I'm go-
ing to apologize for'something,
h 1 h ht was for the good'
u
t t
just wait until there is a new
President,' that's all he said."
"But his claim that he elected
somebody Is to my mind just
about as silly - as anthing else
he's ever said," General Eisen-
hower said.
As for the. former premier's
picture of General Eisenhower
duly swayed by advisers, the
of wills's`awitheM r rKhrushchev
at Camp David, Md., in 1959.
ins,!, "I said,never, 'as long as
there's a Soviet ?iltimatum :
hanging over Berlin, I won't
go
. -
1Vell, he finally surrendered,"
"fire he didn't like - anyone
that was that," he added.
g
o
L a
of my country, I'm- just not'I
going to do it,, so you might as!
well go home."
General Eisenhower was re
;ferring to the U-2 incident.
"And of course he got 'very
!sore at that, "The general said
;"Up, to that tithe he'd thought I
was quite_ . a guy,,. apparently,
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