11.19.69

Forty years ago, on 19 November 1969, RN welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to the White House at the beginning of what would be a significant few days in the history of US-Japanese relations. Typically, the meeting was the result of long planning and...

RN & Manson, Obama & Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

From AP: President Barack Obama appeared to be taking a page from Richard Nixon’s playbook Wednesday when he seemed to declare the suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed guilty and deserving of the death penalty.  In Nixon’s case, he...

Worth 2000 Words

37: February 1972 44: November 2009. The White House ID for downloading this photo is “hero_greatwall_LJ-01-60”

RN, China, and Bowing

The Politico has a clip of RN appearing to bow to Mao.  Jim Pinkerton comments: “This footage, at 1:24, of Nixon’s bow was not at all a bow, as Obama bowed. Nixon clearly just shook his hand, and then bowed as someone was obviously paying him a compliment. Much...

Communicating In Shanghai

On the shoulders of giants: President Obama at his town meeting in Shanghai.* In his speech today, at his town meeting at Shanghai’s Fudan University, President Obama acknowledged the role —if not the name— of his Pacific Rim presidential predecessor...