Spluttering and angry one moment, congenial the next, Khrushchev told Humphrey, “I like President Eisenhower. We want no evil to the U.S. or to free Berlin. You must assure the president of this.” Only a “madman or a fool,” Khrushchev insisted, would think of war between the superpowers.12 These observations clearly influenced Eisenhower, since they squared with his
