Word: nixonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistani channel, said: "The Chinese government reaffirms its willingness to receive publicly in Peking a special envoy of the President of the U.S. (for instance, Mr. Kissinger) or the U.S. Secretary of State or even the President himself for a direct meeting and discussions." The next morning Nixon told Kissinger to get ready for a secret visit to Peking. But shortly before he was to depart, an unexpected crisis erupted...
...papers. After we had struggled for months to establish a secret channel to Peking, the sudden release of over 7,000 pages of secret documents, most dealing with the war in Viet Nam, came as a profound shock. The documents, of course, were in no way damaging to the Nixon presidency. Indeed, there was some sentiment among White House political operatives to exploit them as an illustration of the machinations of our predecessors and the difficulties we inherited. But such an attitude seemed to me against the public interest: our system of government would surely lose all trust if each...
...nightmare was that Peking might conclude our Government was too unsteady, too harassed, and too insecure to be a useful partner. The massive hemorrhage of state secrets was bound to raise doubts about our reliability and about the stability of our political system. I not only supported Nixon in his opposition to this wholesale theft and unauthorized disclosure; I encouraged him. I was not aware of steps later taken, the sordidness, puerility, and ineffectuality of which eventually led to the downfall of the Nixon Administration. I consider those methods inexcusable, but I continue to believe that the theft and publication...
...single code word cabled from Kissinger to Nixon, "Eureka, " advised that the trip had been successful. After returning from Peking, Kissinger and Aide Winston Lord drafted a report to Nixon that exulted: "We have laid the groundwork for you and Mao to turn a page in history." On July 15 Nixon informed stunned television viewers of Kissinger's secret trip and his own plan to visit China some time before May 1972. In October 1971. Kissinger returned to China, with a team of "advance men, "to prepare for Nixon's own visit...
Even in the millennia of their history the Chinese had never encountered a presidential advance party, especially one disciplined by the monomaniacal obsession of the Nixon White House with public relations. When I warned Chou En-lai that China had survived barbarian invasions before but had never encountered advance men, it was only partly a joke...