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...Presidents, John Nance Garner in 1935 and Henry Wallace in 1944, made trips to China during their terms in office. Ulysses S. Grant toured Peking, Shanghai and Canton in 1879, two years after he had left the presidency. But no incumbent U.S. President has ever set foot on Chinese soil. This time, the whole world will watch on the tube the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations -and a triumph for Richard Nixon...
...with you." Each day, whether in Tulsa or traveling, Roberts gets a thick, typed list of the names and needs of all those who write with requests. He sometimes prays for them spectacularly-from a 200-ft. Prayer Tower that rises like a giant top out of the Oklahoma soil. Those in a hurry may call in to a 24-hour telephone watch at the Tower, where prayer counselors are always on duty to give spiritual comfort...
Israel in contrast was to be the home of a new type of Jew who lived off the soil in a land of his own, the land of his ancestors, not afraid to fight for his existence. There is a revealing anecdote widespread in Israel about a young Israeli child who when told by his father about the horrors of the Holocaust, asked incredulously, "But why didn't the Jews kill the Nazis with their Uzzis? (submachine guns)" If at times the Israelis seem abrupt, almost rude to the do-gooders who would advise them on how to wage their...
...might well de-Westernize himself by dropping his Christian names. The President, as it happens, had that thought in mind. Last week he announced that he was considering renaming himself Sese-Seko-Kuku-Ngbendu-Wa-Za-Banga Mobutu, which means, roughly, the hot-blooded warrior and man of the soil who cannot know defeat because of his endurance and his inflexible will to win and who belongs to all Zaïre. Later, though, he mercifully decided to make it simply Mobutu-Sese-Seko...
Baker can be bitter: "The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heroes and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand." Baker can be elegiac, as when he raises the tragic ghost of Abe Lincoln, who says, "A man eventually likes to see the record on himself completed and know that everything is fixed and that his life is in order. I groan every time an archivist discovers another hitherto lost Brady portrait...