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How this momentous event came about is the subject of Margaret MacMillan's fascinating book Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao. She begins with the historic encounter itself-a meeting on Feb. 21, 1972, that the American delegation was not sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was...
“I know that we’ve certainly issued permission for travel in a number of other places around the country” said then-State Department spokesman Richard A. Boucher of the North Korean ambassador and his aides to the United Nations at a daily press...
Behind the scenes, Bush mused to aides that he loved what he was seeing and regretted he would never be able to come to a place like this as a normal tourist. Instead he pursued a fairly restricted itinerary, visiting the U.S. military's Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and skipping...
Soon it will be Gates' job to go into the Oval Office with his own set of pointers, maps and charts, and run a very different briefing for a very different member of the Bush family about a very different conflict in Iraq. This time, Gates will be advising George...
In other parts of the country, of course, Democrats like former football star Heath Shuler in North Carolina did win tight races after working hard to establish credentials as conservative as those of the Republican incumbents they beat. But Chuck Todd, editor of The Hotline - the National Journal's daily...