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 | | The time had come, Khruschev told his visitors, to call off the Cold War, in the interests of both countries. |
 | | One of the Americans on the tour, the renowned public-administration scholar Marshall Dimmock, was so stunned by how the Soviet system was laden with bureaucratic inefficiency that he predicted, "I give it another six months, and it'll collapse of its own weight." Dimmock was right of course, just off by a few decades. |
 | | In their Oval Office visit with President Dwight D. Eisenhower upon returning, the Americans implored him to tour the Soviet Union, where he was still revered widely as a military savior from Adolf Hitler's fascist hordes. |
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