Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit Indonesia, the sprawling island chain whose 112 million people make up nearly half the population of Southeast Asia. Indonesians gave him credit for not trying to upset their neutral status, re-established by General Suharto once the mercurial Sukarno was overthrown in 1967. Nixon wants the U.S. to participate in Indonesia's economic development, but he did not urge any shift in foreign policy. "We respect you as a proud and independent nation," he said in Djakarta. "It is on the basis of common values and ideals...
Bearing the President, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams to South Viet Nam, Nixon's big Boeing soared directly o^eff Saigon's Independence Palace-normally completely off limits to aircraft-on its approach to Tan Son Nhut airbase. It was Nixon's first visit to Viet Nam as President (he had been there five times before). He insisted on going to Saigon rather than Cam Ranh Bay, the huge U.S. supply base that was Lyndon Johnson's touchdown spot on two trips to South Viet Nam. "Cam Ranh Bay doesn't count...
While Mrs. Nixon left to visit...
...leaders of Asia, President Nixon found it necessary to deal in immediacies: a shooting war, changing alliances, a U.S. troop withdrawal that has already begun. By contrast, in Rumania the President had almost no major questions of the moment on his mind. As the first U.S. chief executive to visit a Communist nation since the cold war began, Nixon last week broke diplomatic ground just by arriving in Bucharest. "We seek normal relations with all countries, regardless of their domestic systems," the President assured Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The two leaders thus began with nowhere to go but up. Whatever...
...Nixon had happened to arrive in Bucharest one day early, he would have been hard put to believe that Rumania was expecting him at all. Until the night before he was due, the only visible preparations for his visit were special parking regulations along main boulevards. This studied calm, however, turned out to be yet another indication of President Ceausescu's masterful diplomatic balancing act: an assurance to Russia, which had expressed displeasure over a U.S. presidential visit in its front yard, that he was not going all-out to welcome Nixon...