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There is a Nixon off there somewhere. There is a glimpse at the Great Hall in the afternoon as he goes to the meeting with Chou Enlai. Then there is a banquet at night. While Americans watching on television get the idea that it is some kind of folk festival, it is not quite so hearty. The huge hall engulfs the guests, much like China itself. Nixon is a dim figure with Chou, nibbling at his shark's fin dish and supping his almond junket. Pat's red dress is a drop of warm blood in the gray...
...Visit to the Forbidden City in Peking. Last banquet in the Great Hall of the People...
...last night in town the statue of old Mao is bathed in warm light up on the Great Hall of the People. Above is a half-moon in a clear sky. Richard Nixon is giving a banquet in honor of the Chinese, and the guests come quietly along. So do the Americans. Everybody heads for the same cavernous banquet hall where they had been on the first night of the visit. Tired Americans, tired Chinese. But still smiling, still wondering. The Great Hall would pass in Chicago if it didn't have the double row of lights...
...Around the Mountain and Billy Boy. It still is not easy to take it all in. The only change in the room is the backdrop. The position of the flags, designating which country is host and which is guest, has been reversed. There is the vague feeling in the banquet hall that everybody has been part of some gigantic hoax, or maybe not quite that, but some kind of staging. After the popping of champagne corks (Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs, a scarce California label), Nixon gives a commercial for television but no revelation...
...banquet doesn't have the feeling it had on Monday. Time to say good bye to Peking, and the thrill is diminishing fast. It is almost as if the American presidency has been stolen from the nation for a few days, taken off in the mists of China and held there. There is the thread of television that beams back the story of ceremony, what there is of it, and sight seeing, but fails to give a sense of the inner working between Mao, Chou and Nixon. There is less here than meets the eye, of course, but even...