They met for one summit in Vienna in June 1961. After two days in the Austrian capital, gloom replaced their earlier hopes for a radically improved relationship. Suspicions deepened, as both ...

And Kennedy defended himself limply. Timothy Naftali, Historian: Khrushchev wanted Vienna to be humiliating for the American president. That was the goal. There was nothing that Kennedy could say ...

At the Vienna Summit 1961, American President John F Kennedy refused to remove NATO troops from Berlin. There was a growing contrast between life in the West and life in the East. In West Berlin ...