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The Kitchen Debate Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev (left) and Vice President Richard M. Nixon (center) debate the relative merits of their nations’ economies at the American National Exhibition held in Moscow in 1959. “You are a lawyer for capitalism and I am a lawyer for communism,” Khrushchev told Nixon as each tried to outdo the other. Howard Sochurek/ Time & Life Pictures/Getty.