CBS preened itself last week on getting Nikita Khrushchev to Face the Nation (TIME, June 10), a television news beat that won front-page headlines, editorial-page applause, and even that rare tribute among broadcasters, the repeated use of CBS's name on NBC broadcasts. There were a few complaints, too, over giving Communism's high priest an opportunity to spin his spiel at 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Americans. But only one sour note fretted CBS. It came from the White House.
At his press conference. President Eisenhower dismissed the interview as the act of "a commercial firm in this country trying to improve its own commercial...
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