Word: enlai
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...then the ultimate shock, the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the renewed heavy bombing of the North. They are all ingredients of the impending peace no less astonishing today than when they happened. Then there was Peking and the mind-boggling view of Nixon raising his glass to Chou Enlai, a part of the Viet Nam equation, and the scene just a few months later of Nixon eating his bowl of cereal in the Kremlin as he examined yet another pressure point to bring the war to its close...
...established martial law in his own country-was another coup. "People are interested in the big stories," he says. "They are interested in big-name figures, and they are interested in cross-examination." As he goes into his second quarter-century, Spivak's ambition is to interview Chou Enlai. "For that one," says the man who hates traveling, "we would go to China...
...speak to her directly, slipped a note under her door spelling out his ideas on marriage. Speechwriter Pat Buchanan wonderingly recalls: "If you had said to me that in 1972 I'd be in the Great Hall of the People in Peking clinking glasses with Premier Chou Enlai, I'd have said you were out of your ever-loving mind...
...talks with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai was not yet known. But clearly from the kind of treatment Kissinger received, the Chinese considered the visit highly important. Kissinger was installed in the state guest house at Jade Abyss Pool Park in Peking, and between meetings with Premier Chou Enlai, treated to a lavish banquet in the Great Hall of the People. The People's Daily prominently displayed a group photograph of Kissinger, Chou and their top aides...
Even on a personal level, no one has ever heard you rhapsodize about the conceptual sweep of Japanese leaders the way you have done in the case of Chou Enlai. They do indeed tend to be rather bland men, practical and often frustratingly didactic. But it is still impressive how far they have moved their nation in the past two decades...