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Until the final communique, his negotiating sessions with Premier Chou En-lai were kept entirely secret so as not to jeopardize the delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...
...Sunday night in the U.S.-Monday morning in Peking-this would be the first of the television spectaculars on a mission in which television rated a high priority in the White House planning. Although the White House refused to confirm any details, it was certain that Premier Chou En-lai would meet Nixon at the airport, and TV screens then would record a strange sight: Nixon, the champion of capitalism, riding with Chou in an official black Hongchi (Red Flag) car and entering Tienanmen Square. There they would pass the ancient scarlet walls of China's imperial past...
...haired Asian hand, Jenkins first went to Peking with the Foreign Service in 1946; he remained in China until driven out by Mao Tse-tung's approaching armies in 1949. He later held sensitive positions in Hong Kong and Taipei. He speaks excellent Chinese. He met Chou En-lai at the 1954 Geneva Conference, and again last fall when he returned to Peking with Henry Kissinger...
...decades. Western journalists writing about China found themselves using phrases like "As Chou En-lai once told Edgar Snow . . ." or "As Mao Tse-tung recently explained to Snow . . ." Journalist-Author Snow not only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...
...China Wald spoke with several ranking officials, including Chou En-lai, who discussed notable Harvard personalities. His comment on Presidential advisor Henry A. Kissinger '50, as reported by Wald was, "as a man, he's good to argue with...