Nixon Library to Host Kin of Khrushchev
At the 1960 Republican National Convention, presidential nominee Richard Nixon made a prediction about the Soviet Union. The grandchildren of then-Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, he said, would live in a free society.
On Sunday, exactly 36 years after Nixon’s address, Khrushchev’s granddaughter, Nina Khrushcheva, will lecture at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace on the recent democratic elections in Russia and the victory of President Boris N. Yeltsin.
She will be welcomed by and accompanied on a special tour of the library by Christopher Nixon Cox, Nixon’s grandson.
Though Khrushcheva grew up in the public eye in the Soviet Union and remains interested in Russian politics, she now lives in the United States.
She is a doctoral student in comparative literature at Princeton University, where she is a research fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. She has also published several works on the role of Russian first ladies.
“I’m very interested in the American-Russian relationship,” she said. “Being from the family I am, I’ve always felt a personal connection to history. With our open borders, I can act upon it. That is why I am here.”
Khrushcheva will speak at 2 p.m. in the Nixon Library theater. The event is free, but reservations are required. Information: (714) 993-5075.
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