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

["Neal Herman" <chrycordoba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was printed in April 1959.  As I told Kenyon when I sent it, perhaps if
Nikita had driven his wife out to his dacha in a Forward Look Imperial
rather than a ZIL, which bore a striking, if not eerie, resemblance to a
'55 Packard (r.i.p. the previous year), and if little 7-year old Vladimir
Putin rode to school in a pink and rose Dodge Sierra wagon rather than a
rattle-trap Moskvitch, the Cold War might have ended 30 years earlier.

Neal Herman
1959 Imperial
1966 Imperial
et al.


> [Original Message]
> From: David Duricy <desotobravo@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/27/2005 2:40:49 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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