Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the second Inauguration [Jan. 20, 1973], Nixon moved as if he were himself a spectator, not the principal. There was about him a quality of remoteness, as if he could never quite bring himself to leave the inhospitable and hostile world that he inhabited, that he may have hated but at least had come to terms with. Perhaps it was simple shyness or fatalism; perhaps it was consciousness of a looming catastrophe...
Kissinger had a chance to compare Soviet and Chinese negotiating styles because of a momentous development: the opening to China. As he notes, "policy emerges when concept encounters opportunity, "and Nixon realized that the bloody border clashes between Soviet and Chinese troops in the summer of 1969 presented just such an opportunity. Fearful of a pre-emptive attack by Moscow or an all-out war, the Chinese were looking for a counter-threat to Soviet pressure. At that very moment, the U.S. was subtly signaling Peking that it was interested in a fundamental change in their relationship. There followed what...
...message was not an indirect, subtle signal. It was an authoritative personal message to Richard Nixon from Chou Enlai, who emphasized that he spoke not only for himself but also for Chairman Mao and Vice Chairman Lin Biao (Lin Piao...
China, Chou declared, "has always been willing and has always tried to negotiate by peaceful means ... A special envoy of President Nixon's will be most welcome in Peking." Chou En-lai observed gracefully that many other messages had been received from the U.S. through various sources, "but this is the first time that the proposal has come from a Head, through a Head, to a Head. We attach importance to the message...
...walked down the hall to the Oval Office. Nixon and I were as one in our readiness to accept the invitation. I drafted a reply that I handed to Hilaly...