Re: IML: The Cold War and Chrysler's Forward Look hit piece

["Mark Evans" <mark.a.evans@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dave,
Thanks for the  great history lesson! The brochure is copyrighted April,
1959. So, it's plausible that you may have found this brochure at the
American National Expo in Moscow.

Mark Evans
1963 Imperial Crown Convertible
http://www.imperialclub.org/~maevans/MyImperial/index.html
1968 Dodge Polara 500 Convertible
http://www.imperialclub.org/~maevans/MyPolara/index.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Duricy" <desotobravo@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: IML: The Cold War and Chrysler's Forward Look hit piece


> Neal,
>
> Not just any trade show, I believe!
>
> In July of 1959, Vice President Nixon made an
> unofficial visit to the Soviet Union. The purpose of
> his trip ostensibly was to give the opening remarks
> for the American National Exhibition in Moscow.
>
> A depiction of an American kitchen at the Exhibition
> became the background for a famous confrontation
> between Nikita Khruschev and Richard Nixon. This
> exchange was later dubbed The Kitchen Debate.
>
> The Kitchen Debate can be heard via the American
> Presidency Project the University of California Santa
> Barbara:
>
> http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=78&admin=37
>
> What's the date on the brochure? Imagine, it could
> have been nearby, perhaps within a Chrysler
> Corporation display aglow with Lucite and chrome, when
> Kruschev made the prophetic declartion to Nixon, "The
> system that will give the people more goods will be
> the better system and victorious."
>
> If that brochure is from the American National
> Exhibition, you've saved a valuable reminder of
> Chrysler's contribution to the Cold War consumer
> arsenal.
>
> It's a pitty that Imperial isn't here now for the
> people who longed for it back then. Maybe someday?
>
> Until then, artifacts like this and the cars
> themselves remind us why Chrysler Corporation
> mattered.
>
> Thanks, Neal and the volunteers who posted the piece!
>
> Dave Duricy
>
> --- Neal Herman <chrycordoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I suspected that the brochure might have had
> > something to do with a trade
> > show, but didn't recall Nixon's trip.  I wonder if
> > GM and Ford produced the
> > same types of "propaganda"?
>
>
>
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