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CC@H Speaker Series with Marvin Kalb

Date and Time

Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM

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Community event

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Registration is required

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Please join Chevy Chase At Home for our upcoming Guest Speaker Series, A DIFFERENT RUSSIA: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course with Marvin Kalb

In the darkest days of the Cold War, in the early 1960's, Marvin Kalb, a young and dynamic American reporter, found himself in Moscow covering a slippery confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy. A succession of near collisions brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. Khrushchev thought he had Kennedy's number; that proved to be a dangerous miscalculation. Until Kennedy was assassinated, and Khrushchev kicked out of power, both super-powers warily sought to avoid direct conflict, trying to reach an accommodation of interests, if possible. Under Putin, the U.S. faces a totally different Russia, one that's angrily turned its back on the West. Kalb has written an unusual memoir, deeply personal and yet highly professional, exploring a profoundly important question: can Russia and America coexist peacefully, or are they doomed to slide into mortal confrontation.

Free and Open to the community. Register for this Speaker Series on our website here https://www.chevychaseathome.org/content.aspx?page_id=4091&club_id=559717&item_id=2300387 or email info@chevychaseathome.org.