Thursday, December 18, 2008

The President, the Premier & the Shoe

The story of the journalist who threw a shoe at President Bush made me wonder if there might have been any similar kind of symbolic contempt in Kruschev’s choice of a shoe with which to bang the desk at the United Nations in 1960 – an event which made a huge impression at the time

Apparently not, according to The case of Khrushchev's shoe by Nina Khrushcheva