Jun 1, 2013 | Library & Foundation, News, Nixon Library Events, Vietnam
Through this weekend, C-SPAN will periodically be broadcasting President Nixon’s toast to the American POWs of the Vietnam War, at the dinner held on May 24, 1973 to celebrate their return home – to this day, the largest dinner of any kind at the White...
May 11, 2013 | China, News, The Nixons
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the ten-day visit of President Nixon’s grandson Christopher Nixon Cox, heading a party of forty visitors, to the People’s Republic of China. The group, traveling under the auspices of the Richard Nixon Foundation, included...
May 8, 2013 | China, News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Dr. Kissinger with Premier Chou En-lai meeting on the Shanghai Communiqué. The Joint Communiqué of the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, more commonly referred to as the Shanghai Communiqué, is one of the most...
May 7, 2013 | China, News
President Nixon’s China game brought Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to the negotiating table in May 1972. Since the rise of the Iron Curtain after World War II, the US-Soviet relationship was based on a balance of power. That is, both sides tried to ensure the...
May 3, 2013 | News, The New Nixon
President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toast at the Great Hall of the People. In his toast at the Welcome Banquet on February 21st, 1972 in the Great Hall of the People, President Nixon laid out the potential that trip held for the future of the US-Chinese...
May 2, 2013 | China, News
Premier Chou receives President Nixon’s extended hand upon his arrival in Peking Walking down the steps from the “Spirit of ‘76” after landing on the small tarmac of the Peking Airport, President Nixon made it a point to extend his hand toward Premier Chou...
