February 24, 1972 – The Great Wall

On his fourth day in China, President Nixon left the meeting room and ventured out to see some of China’s most famous sights. The first stop on the agenda, about an hour and a half drive from Peking, was the Ba Da Ling section of the Great Wall of China. The sheer...

February 23, 1972 – People to People Diplomacy

The President’s third day in Peking consisted primarily of meetings with Chinese officials.  Three members of the American delegation accompanied President Nixon into these meetings: Henry Kissinger, the President’s National Security Advisor, Winston Lord, Kissinger’s...

More On The 40th Anniversary of Nixon’s China Trip

Besides the informative Daily Beast article by Winston Lord and Leslie Gelb discussed in Jonathan Movroydis’s post below, a large number of other stories have appeared online marking the four decades  since President Nixon shook Premier Zhou Enlai’s hand on the tarmac...