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...Chou catches sight of Author-Correspondent Theodore White. "He has not been here since liberation," says Chou. White smiles and replies: "That's not my fault." Laughing, the Premier adds: "We, too, are to blame...
Some of that all-or-nothing fervor is fading as the pragmatists take over and ideology dwindles. A Secretary of State such as John Foster Dulles, who could not bear to shake the hand of China's Chou En-lai in 1954, has been replaced by a Nixon, who seems able to embrace anyone and any idea if it looks historically or politically profitable. Few modern leaders have turned themselves about so completely as has Nixon to meet what seems to him the practical demands of the times. Pragmatism, in fact, is fast becoming America...
...recent months, the Soviet press offered-as proof of U.S.-Chinese "connivance" in the war -the fact that American warplanes continued to attack targets in North Viet Nam even as the Peking summit progressed. One Moscow newscast began with a few minutes of video tape of Nixon and Chou in Peking, then cut to footage of an attack on a Viet Nam village by U.S. planes. Other East-bloc capitals followed Moscow's lead. The Czech party paper Rudé Pràvo snarled that both the U.S. and China were obviously "willing to ally themselves with the devil...
...television viewer, the President's trip was a remarkable demonstration both of TV's powers and limitations. No written account could convey, as did the live camera, the drama of Nixon and Chou touching glasses after a quarter-century of enmity. At the same time, no written account could be as tedious as a camera searching for something-almost anything-to record...
Nothing could mar the coverage of the landing at Peking's airport. Undramatic in itself, the event nonetheless had something of the excitement of the first landing on the moon. Would the Chinese roll out a red carpet? Would Chou ride in the President's car? The symbolism of these seemingly minor questions of protocol was obvious on the home screen, briefly lending the proceedings high suspense...