Feb 21, 2022 | Nixon Today
50 years ago today President and Mrs. Nixon landed on Air Force One in Beijing to begin their historic visit to the People’s Republic of China. Read about why President Nixon went to China and how this became the most important diplomatic overture of the second...
Feb 21, 2022 | Nixon Today
From the Memoirs of Richard Nixon Volume Two: On February 17, 1972 at 10:35 A.M. we left Andrews Air Force Base for Peking. As the plane gathered speed and then took to the air, I thought of Malraux’s words. We were embarking upon a voyage of philosophical...