In what became known as “The Kitchen Debate”, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met at the U.S. Embassy, Moscow, in 1959.
Text of The Kitchen Debate between Nixon and Khrushchev.
[Both men enter kitchen in the American exhibit.]
NIXON
I want to show you this kitchen. It is like those of our houses in California.
[Nixon points to dishwasher.]
KHRUSHCHEV
We have such things.