He also reminded me that when President Eisenhower invited Premier Khrushciev to visit the United States in 1959. he apparently felt that we were sufficiently strong to survive a direct exposure to Premier .Khrushchev and that a dinner meeting with the 10 leading U.S. trade union leaders was arranged in San Francisco. Mr. Reuther commented that: It struck -him as "rather. ludicrous that whereas the Administration of General Eisenhower felt it constituted no threat -to the internal democracy of our country and was in the overall interest of the Nation to expose a group of U.S trade union leaders to zne views of the number one communist leader in the world and. in turn. expose him to U.S. workers views. the Administration of President Nixon considers -the issuance of a visa to a Soviet trade union official (minor in the Soviet hierarchy) somehow would endanger the internal security of the U.S. Mr. President.