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Nixon was equally impressed with Chou En-lai and awed by his energy. "He was as fresh at the end of a long conversation as at the beginning," the President said. "Here is a man of 73 who acted like he was in his 40s." Nixon and Kissinger were struck by Chou's toughness and assurance as a bargainer as well as by his mastery of detail-when it served the Premier's purpose. He was well-briefed on the facts of Nixon's life, for instance. At a banquet in Shanghai, he studied the menu...
CHINA'S Premier Chou En-lai had hardly finished seeing off Richard Nixon at Shanghai airport, waving goodbye with evident weariness and perhaps relief, when he flew back to Peking. There, in pronounced contrast to the quiet scene that had greeted Nixon's arrival a week earlier, Chou received a hero's welcome of unprecedented proportions. As he stepped from his plane wearing a heavy blue overcoat against a biting winter wind, he was met by the entire top echelon of his government, delegations of students, workers and soldiers, and some 5,000 "spectators" who waved bouquets...
...elaborately staged return, with its overtones of triumph, dominated China's front pages and Peking's daily 30-minute newscasts for the better part of the week. Like Richard Nixon's equally staged reception on his return to Washington, it had domestic political purposes. Plainly, the Chou show was designed to arouse popular support for Peking's U.S. rapprochement, which had apparently been an element in the power struggle that all but tore the regime apart last fall...
Tour Guide. Indeed, from a critic's viewpoint, the first day, despite a few flubs and miscues, was the season's best network TV show. With deadpan eye, the camera faithfully recorded Premier Chou choosing choice tidbits for Dick and Pat, like some top-level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right...
Deprived of the customary briefings and backgrounders, correspondents were forced to fall back on color and trivia, including the length of Mao's handshake with Nixon and the width of Chou En-lai's grins as portents of how the talks were going. Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. fumed about the low-key reception and grumbled that the sole Chinese concession seemed to be that "they did not make President Nixon stop for red lights." Buckley eventually suggested in print that some slight was also intended because Chou drank "to the health" of President Nixon instead...