Feb 24, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
On his fourth day in China, President Nixon left the meeting room and ventured out to see some of China’s most famous sights. The first stop on the agenda, about an hour and a half drive from Peking, was the Ba Da Ling section of the Great Wall of China. The sheer...
Feb 23, 2012 | News, The New Nixon
The President’s third day in Peking consisted primarily of meetings with Chinese officials. Three members of the American delegation accompanied President Nixon into these meetings: Henry Kissinger, the President’s National Security Advisor, Winston Lord, Kissinger’s...
Feb 22, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Pat Nixon
President Nixon spent the entirety of his second day in China absorbed in meetings and talks with Chinese and American officials. While her husband was occupied attending to matters of state, First Lady Pat Nixon ventured out into the new frontier of Chinese...
Feb 21, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
Upon the arrival of the Spirit of ’76 at Capital Airport later that morning, President Nixon and the American delegation were welcomed to Peking with a lavish arrival ceremony hosted by the People’s Republic of China’s Premier Chou En-lai. President Nixon made the...
Sep 5, 2011 | News, The New Nixon
On September 25, 1972 President Nixon issued a memo to his Secretary of State William Rogers establishing a Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. The creation of this committee was a direct response to the Black September terrorist attack at the 1972 Olympic Games in...
