Feb 25, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News
President Nixon’s last full day in Peking began with a tour of the Forbidden City, which is now one of Beijing’s biggest tourist attractions. Situated in the middle of Beijing, it was the center of Chinese politics for five hundred years, serving as the imperial...
Feb 24, 2012 | China, Foreign Policy, News
Stephen Hess, who assisted Vice President Nixon on his first book Six Crises, and later served as the 37th President’s Deputy Assistant for Urban Affairs, explains the genesis of the vision for the China journey: In a restorative break from an intense Beijing...
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
Besides the informative Daily Beast article by Winston Lord and Leslie Gelb discussed in Jonathan Movroydis’s post below, a large number of other stories have appeared online marking the four decades since President Nixon shook Premier Zhou Enlai’s hand on the tarmac...
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...
Aug 5, 2011 | Domestic Policy, Foreign Policy, News
In another few days, thirty-seven years will have passed since the resignation of the thirty-seventh President. The recent passing of Betty Ford has reminded Rachel Patron, a writer for the Fort Lauderdale (Florida) Sun-Sentinel, of the example of courage and...
