Nixon in China (The Film) - 25 minute version

A compilation of audiovisual materials from the collections of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.

Collections Include:

- The Naval Photographic Center
- The White House Staff Super 9 Film Collection
- The White House Communications Agency Sound Recording Collection
- The Haldeman Diaries

A production by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.

The spelling of names and locations is consistent with entries in the Presidential Daily Diary of Febrary, 1972.

• Category

  News & Politics

[Edwin Lindley]

No matter what your thoughts on President Nixon was. Him going to China was his biggest successes. Any president would like to have something like this on their record.

[gjc82071]

But even that's not a good comparison. (Obama in N. Korea) There is really no comparison today, because the cold war is dead & there aren't any proxy wars. Also, China's involvement in Vietnam lessened after Sino-Soviet split in 1968.

[pdquick1]

The U.S. and China had just finished fighting what was essentially a proxy war in Vietnam. The only comparable thing today would be if Obama went to North Korea.

[pdquick1]

She was the inspiration for Gary Trudeau's character Honey in Doonesbury.

[pdquick1]

I remember this like it was yesterday. It's easy to forget that before this, China was completely inaccessible to the West. It was as big a deal as if Nixon had personally gone to the Moon.

[otacs2]

Good work! Zhou Enlai is the Deng Xiaoping of Mao's time.

[Gunnet Sha]

周恩来总理帅

[ataramprat]

NO...it is very GOOD* (I think you might have done that on purpose?) ;-)

[vitoduval]

Kissinger presented the gold medals to the Chinese Men's gymnastics team in 2000.

[lafkdjay]

Translator's English is VERY WELL!