Word: china
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his 1988 presidential campaign, Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) said, "Just as it took Nixon to go to China, it might take a liberal Democrat to change Social Security...
LOOKING only to the events of this past year, numerous images claim indelible places in our memory and imagination. Millions marched in China's capital for political reform this spring before they gathered in East Germany. Leaders in Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria have followed the Soviet Union's lead step-by-step in opening up totalitarian regimes...
Nixon's suggestions for restoring the relationship fell on deaf ears. Deng was unyielding during his three hours of talks with Nixon. China, he contended, had not done "one thing harmful" to the U.S. "But the U.S. was involved too deeply in the turmoil and counterrevolutionary rebellion," he lectured. Although Deng expressed a strong desire to repair the damaged ties, he insisted "it is up to the U.S. to take the initiative...
...that attitude existed back in 1972, there would have been no embassy here," Nixon commented later. Echoing George Bush's announcement of a meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, Nixon likened his discussions with China's leaders to "two ships passing in the night...
...news by the antics of the has-beens. Ronald Reagan was on display in Japan for a reported $2 million (or 284 million yen) from the Fujisankei Communications Group. Jimmy Carter was in Nashville instructing listeners on how he wrote his books. Richard Nixon huffed off yet again to China after disconnecting his AT&T phone service because the company was sponsoring the TV version of The Final Days, last weekend's account of the end of Watergate and Nixon's presidency. Gerald Ford was at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa, of all places, addressing a conference...