Trivia Question: In 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev engaged in what famous impromptu debate on economic theory?
Answer: The Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate took place in a model of a house that “every average American could afford.” The model was set up at the American National Exhibition in Moscow. Nixon and Khrushchev hotly debated through interpreters about whether communism or capitalism was the superior economic system.