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Nixon, comporting himself with dignity but with an enthusiasm that sometimes made him seem overeager, said nothing of importance in public during the entire trip. His ingratiating small talk was more pedestrian than usual; his toasts were ringing evocations of a world without walls. He even quoted Mao Tse-tung: "So many deeds cry out to be done . . . Seize the day. Seize the hour...
...constituency. Conservatives complained that he seemed to have gone too far without a promise of getting much in return. By making such a show of praising his hosts, he cast himself in the role of a suppliant. By appearing to be granted an interview with Mao Tse-tung rather than getting one as a matter of course, he seemed to accept a status lesser than that of the chairman...
...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...
Trotsky was as complete a revolutionary as one could find that side of Mao Tse-tung. He thrived equally on the chaos of armed insurrection and the enforced peace of prison life. It was in jail and during the doldrums of exile that Trotsky became a leading Socialist theoretician and defender of what he saw as the only true political faith -permanent, international revolution of the urban working class. As stage manager of the Russian Revolution's 1905 dress rehearsal, as founder of the Red Army and Commissar of War after 1917, Trotsky tasted his share of glory...
...decades. Western journalists writing about China found themselves using phrases like "As Chou En-lai once told Edgar Snow . . ." or "As Mao Tse-tung recently explained to Snow . . ." Journalist-Author Snow not only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...