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Nixon was the first U.S. president to visit the Asian nation and the jaunt, which came smack in the midst of the Cold War, was a huge boon for the President's public image. The trip ended with the Shanghai Communique, a joint statement from China and the U.S. that pledged to improve relations between the countries and maintained that Taiwan was part of China, a diplomatic sticking point. At the close of the journey, Nixon crowed, "This was the week that changed the world." (See TIME's 1972 Cover Story "Richard Nixon's Long March to Shanghai...
...Allied leaders, and the end result was the partition of Germany and the creation of the United Nations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fulfilling a campaign promise, traveled to Korea as President-Elect in December 1952 - the Korean War ended seven months later. And, of course, Ronald Reagan helped bring the Cold War to a close when he gave his 1987 speech at the Berlin Wall, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall...
...against the dollar in the past six months, while economic activity decreased 7.3% in February compared with the same month last year, Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Klepach said on March 24. The government has said the economy is likely to shrink 2.2% this year. (See pictures of the Cold War's influence...
...there wasn’t too much in terms of current or waves,” Schwartz said. “There was a ton of rain. It started raining from the moment we got off the bus to the moment we got back on, and it was pretty cold.” Despite the difficult conditions, the Black and White lightweights are excited to finally be racing after an intense pre-season training regime. “We’ve been training really hard and just came off of spring break,” Kharrazi said...
...things with this trip was that weather was an adjustment, going from indoors to outdoors, but the team did a good job,” Saretsky said. “The assumption is that if you go down to Texas the weather will be warm, but it was actually cold and windy.”“I think a lot of people had a chance to get ready for the outside season,” Christensen said. “[The wind] made it hard for anyone who had long races, but I guess it made it better...