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 ...

When US President Richard Nixon walked down the red-carpeted stairs from Air Force One to shake hands with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on a cold day in Beijing on February 21, 1972, it was hailed ...

The 68 months of Richard Nixon’s ... the firing of the Watergate special prosecutor so as to replace him with the former Texas chair of Democrats for Nixon, fawned on Chairman Mao after ...

Nixon's 1972 trip, which included meetings with Chairman Mao Zedong and a visit to the Great Wall, led to the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1979 and the parallel severing of formal ties ...

For this, I had Richard Nixon to thank. ___ Nixon visited Mao Zedong in Beijing 50 years ago this week, when they both led their respective nations. Nixon called it “the week that changed the ...

Nixon in China is still sometimes discussed as a CNN opera, a musical version of events as they transition from headline to history. The opera tells the story of that old “cold warrior” President ...

9. "I ask all of you present to join me in raising your glasses to Chairman Mao, to Prime Minister Chou, and to the friendship of the Chinese and American ...

To His Excellency Chairman Mao Tse-Tung from Richard Nixon President of the United States, February 1972 National Museum of American History. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply ...

At the height of the Cold War, U.S. President Richard Nixon flew into communist China's center of power for a visit that, over time, would transform U.S.-China relations.