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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...
February 22, 1972 – Panda Diplomacy
President Nixon spent the entirety of his second day in China absorbed in meetings and talks with Chinese and American officials. While her husband was occupied attending to matters of state, First Lady Pat Nixon ventured out into the new frontier of Chinese...
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...
February 21, 1972 – RN Arrives in Peking
Upon the arrival of the Spirit of ’76 at Capital Airport later that morning, President Nixon and the American delegation were welcomed to Peking with a lavish arrival ceremony hosted by the People’s Republic of China’s Premier Chou En-lai. President Nixon made the...
40 Years Ago – RN Goes to China
Former Nixon aide and future U.S. Ambassador to China Winston Lord, and Daily Beast contributor and then diplomatic correspondent Leslie Gelb, write of the 37th President’s diplomatic tour de force: Forty years past, world politics were churning with a vicious Vietnam...
The War On Cancer After Forty Years
Tomorrow, December 23, marks four decades since President Nixon put his pen to paper and signed into law the National Cancer Act of 1971, which marks one of the most important and imperishable legacies of his Administration. It dramatically increased funding to the...
Tricia Nixon Cox En Vogue
Our President's daughter was invited to join actress Meryl Streep in the lead feature of January's Vogue Magazine! The story and photo essay detail a bipartisan group of women who are spearheading the campaign for a National Women's History Museum on the Mall in...
Interview: RN Speech Writer Talks New Memoir
From the school house to the White House: In an exclusive interview with TNN, William Gavin recounts his storybook rise from high school English teacher to presidential wordsmith, and how he honed his craft as a protégé of America's 37th President. His new memoir,...
Foundation Honors OC’s Fallen Heroes
The Richard Nixon Foundation honored Orange County's heroes who lost their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. The OC Register's Scott Martindale reports: One by one, the mothers and fathers stepped forward to receive a hug, a thank you and a Christmas ornament...