Feb 1, 2014 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, Sports
Nicholas Griffin is a half-British, half-American writer, who, in the best transatlantic tradition, lived the first half of his life in London and the second half in New York City; he recently moved to Florida. A few weeks ago Simon & Schuster published his sixth...
Nov 9, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News
Last Thursday night, Manhattan attorney Christopher Nixon Cox spoke at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, New Hampshire. His talk, “The 40th Anniversary of President Nixon’s Trip to China – Moving Forward,” not only examined his...
Aug 14, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, The New Nixon
On Friday, February 25, 1972, during the historic visit to China, President and Mrs. Nixon hosted a Reciprocal Banquet for the Chinese in the Great Hall of the People, the first major event ever hosted by the American government on Chinese soil. The Americans had...
Aug 13, 2013 | China, News
Reflecting upon his February 1972 China trip, President Nixon declared that his one of his most vivid impressions was the “unique personality” of Premier Zhou Enlai. The President had gleaned only a limited insight to the personality of the ailing Chairman Mao from...
Aug 8, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
From left to right: Premier Zhou En-Lai, translator Tang Wensheng, Chairman Mao, President Nixon, and Henry Kissinger. (Not shown: National Security Advisor Winston Lord and Chinese Deputy Chief of Protocol Wang Hai-Jung.) One of the most incredible moments in the...
Jul 30, 2013 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Today, The New Nixon
Departing from Hawaii en route to China on February 20th, 1972, President Nixon quoted President Theodore Roosevelt: “Our history will be more determined by our position on the Pacific facing China than by our position on the Atlantic facing Europe.” When President...
