Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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I responded equally firmly, pointing out that Peking had broached the presidential visit and that we could not accept any conditions. I then launched into a deliberately brusque point-by-point rebuttal of Chou's presentation. Chou stopped me after the first point, saying the duck would get cold if...
After lunch I resumed my rebuttal until Chou suddenly, matter-of-factly suggested the summer of 1972 for the President's visit, as if all that was left was to decide the timing. He added that he thought it prudent if we met the Soviet leaders first. I replied that...
The details of the Nixon trip were settled very rapidly. We proposed two dates, Feb. 21 and March 16; Chou chose the earlier. Problems solved themselves as easily as was compatible with the obsessive single-mindedness of the advance men. The head of our security detail distinguished himself by requesting...
Chou said that he would submit a proposed draft. It was unprecedented in design. It stated the Chinese position on a whole host of issues in extremely uncompromising terms. It left blank pages for our position. It was intransigent on Taiwan. At first I was taken aback. To end a...
In office he always seemed to be at center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he...