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...congressional leaders to the White House for some early-morning coffee and firsthand reports on his travels. But the 22 top Republicans who gathered round the huge mahogany table in the Cabinet Room were not eager to hear about the President's chat with China's Mao Tse-tung (see story page 26). Nor was the Pacific Doctrine, which Ford enunciated in Hawaii, their main interest, even though it was a good restatement of U.S. policy and may well be helpful in reassuring Asian allies after the Viet Nam defeat. What was on the Republicans' minds...
...Significant" was a word never far from Gerald Ford's lips during his five-day visit to Peking. He used it to characterize his long conversation with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. He unfurled it again to describe his three morning sessions with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the tough Pekingese who is acting operational head of the Chinese government. And finally, in his last champagne toast, Ford declared that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly...
Peter Principle to absurdity. Thus the mere invitation to a far capital becomes the message, the hours spent in conference with old adversaries more the measure of success than what was said. Nobody has yet been told what Chairman Mao Tse-tung said to Ford, but we all have been bludgeoned with the fact that the meeting lasted an hour and 50 minutes, the longest audience Mao has granted this year...
...Richard Nixon in his historic 1972 visit. U.S. TV technicians have already started work on installations in China for live transmissions. Ford's mornings will be for sightseeing at such likely sites as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall; afternoons will be for meetings, probably with Mao Tse-tung among others, as both sides size each other...
Kissinger's eighth trip to Peking in four years was thus conducted in a chillier atmosphere than the previous seven. The Americans felt that some Chinese officials were brusque almost to the point of rudeness. At one banquet, Kissinger toasted both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai, but Foreign Minister Chiao neglected to do the same for President Ford. Observers in Hong Kong believe Kissinger was unnecessarily blunt to the sensitive Chinese...