President Richard Nixon meets with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in Beijing, during his 1972 visit to China. Corbis/Getty Images. Sitting alongside Kissinger aboard the private jet was ...

Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong, left, and President Richard Nixon shake hands on Feb. 21, 1972, during their momentous meeting in Beijing. (AP) (AP) By Michael E. Ruane ...

President Nixon meets Chairman Mao Image via Wikipedia "So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently. The world rolls on. Time passes. Ten thousand years are too long. Seize the day ...

President Richard Nixon landed in Air Force One at Beijing Airport on Feb. 21, 1972. The daughter of Chairman Mao, Li Ming, saluted that historic milestone by hosting a state dinner on Feb. 21… ...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of former US President Richard Nixon's one-week visit to China in 1972, which was hailed as a diplomatic breakthrough and a major turning point in modern US ...

Richard Nixon was alone in his hotel room in Beijing, uncertain and on edge. He had traveled halfway around the world, and he still didn’t know if he would meet China's leader, Mao Zedong.

The handshake between then US president Richard Nixon and chairman Mao Zedong half a century ago was hailed at the time as a historic moment. The sting from that handshake remained with Chiang ...

In 1972 US President Richard Nixon went on a diplomatic mission to China, which was still under the communist rule of Chairman Mao. He hoped for a meeting with Mao.

Richard Nixon (2nd from right) with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong (center), Premier Zhou Enlai (left) and Henry Kissinger (right). Getty Images ...

Nixon and a large entourage of U.S. officials spent a week in China, from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28, 1972. Nixon met with the ailing Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong, who was too ill to attend the ...

ST. LOUIS — Air Force One landed here Wednesday night. Its mission: to transform the image of a president. But not, probably, the one you think. John Adams’ “Nixon in China” is back, and ...