On July 24, 1959, then-Vice President Richard Nixon was in Moscow to open the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park. Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had a public exchange of angry words while touring the fair (and for the rest of Nixon's trip). At one point, Nixon and Khrushchev paused at the model kitchen exhibit (excerpts from "The New York Times"): Nixon: "I want to show you this kitchen. It is like those of our houses in California." Khrushchev: [after Nixon called attention to a built-in panel-controlled washing machine]: "We have such things." Nixon: "This is the newest model. This is the kind which is built in thousands of units for direct installation in the houses." He added that Americans were interested in making life easier for their women. Mr. Khrushchev remarked that in the Soviet Union, they did not have "the capitalist attitude toward women." Nixon: "I think that this attitude toward women is universal. What we want to do is make easier the life of our housewives." Khrushchev: "Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down? Many things you've shown us are interesting but they are not needed in life. They have no useful purpose. They are merely gadgets. We have a saying, if you have bedbugs you have to catch one and pour boiling water into the ear." Nixon: "We have another saying. This is that the way to kill a fly is to make it drink whisky. But we have a better use for whisky. [Aside] I like to have this battle of wits with the Chairman. He knows his business." Khrushchev [apologizing] "I always speak frankly." He said he hoped he had not offended Mr. Nixon. Nixon: "I've been insulted by experts. Everything we say is in good humor." Khrushchev: "The Americans have created their own image of the Soviet man and think he is as you want him to be. But he is not as you think. You think the Russian people will be dumbfounded to see these things, but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment right now. Moreover, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union. You are entitled to housing. I was born in the Soviet Union. So I have a right to a house. In America, if you don't have a dollar -- you have the right to choose between sleeping in a house or on the pavement. Yet you say that we are slaves of communism." For the more complete transcript, visit: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/14/documents/debate/