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Nobody did. It was entirely metaphorical. There was no race, but the people who were involved were Nikita Khrushchev, the President of Russia at the time, and President John F. Kennedy of the United States.
The leader of the United States was President John F. Kennedy & Soviet General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was the USSR leader.
Nikita Khrushchev WA the leader of russia during Kennedy's presidential reign. He was most well known for being responsible for the Cuban missile Crisis, which was a very serious nuclear threat to the US. this event really hurt the USSR and the US's relationship.
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On Friday Oct. 26, 1962 Khrushchev sent two letters to President Kennedy. The first letter was not made public. It was supposedly softer saying Russia would remove its missiles from Cuba if the U.S. would end the quarantine and garantee the U.S. would not invade Cuba. The second letter sounded harsher, seeking the removal of U.S. missiles in Turkey in return for taking Russian missiles out of Cuba.
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Nikita Khrushchev .
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV was the soviet leader in the 1960's His sucessor was Brezhnev.
In the late 1950s Johnson traveled with the future president Richard Nixon to Africa and Russia. Later, he met President John F. Kennedy and traveled with Robert Kennedy to the Ivory Coast.
nikita khrushchev was born on April 15, 1894
John F. Kennedy. was president it was durning a thing called 13 days when. America was securtly having a fight with Russia. russia had placed missles that coiuld travel in 5 mintues in cuba.