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...huddle in the cold on the steps of the Great Hall waiting-one hour, two hours. What is wrong? Nixon ill? Trouble in Viet Nam? This sort of void in awareness does not happen in this age. But it does. Of course, Nixon has slipped away to meet with Mao Tse-tung, the Mount Rushmore of China, and for that matter of the world...
Presidential Press Secretary Ron Ziegler emerges now and then from the void and says nothing. He will not comment on the health of Mao, the tone of the meeting, even how long the two shook hands. It remains one of the most remarkable such meetings on record. Richard Nixon has bragged before about the number of hours he has spent with heads of state. This time he flew 11,510 miles and so far he has had one hour with the top guy. That boils down to half an hour of talk. Is that enough to start this historic chain...
People's Daily front-pages a picture of Mao and Nixon. Nixon and Chou En-lai confer privately for four hours. Evening at the ballet...
Just as some ease is beginning to be established, there is this shattering spectacle. Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon at the ballet. Sitting cozily between them is Madame Mao, the fire-breathing dragon lady of the Cultural Revolution. They are observing the drama of a wicked landlord and how he beats the peasants who turn on him and join the Communists. They go off into the red sunset shooting, bombing and hacking their way to liberation and the new age. My God, this same Nixon is advocating cutting landlords' taxes back home and suggesting a generation of peace without...
...that Secretary of State William Rogers is handling the detailed negotiations for people-to-people contacts that will come out of the visit, while the President and Kissinger direct overall policy. It is something of a slight for Rogers, who has not even been taken along to meet Mao, but he has been slighted in protocol terms so often that his role is different from what is commonly expected of a Secretary of State. He is a gentle, loyal man who serves Nixon and he accepts his role with grace and good humor-at least in public...