SOURCE: “NIXON IN CHINA, THE WEEK THAT CHANGED THE WORLD,”BY MARGARET MACMILLAN (2006). Secretary of State William Rogers was excluded the only other American present besides Kissinger was Winston Lord, a member of the National Security Council planning staff, who served as a note taker. Almost as soon as he arrived in the Chinese capital, Chairman Mao Zedong summoned him for a meeting. Besides Beijing, Nixon traveled to Hangzhou and Shanghai. Henry Kissinger lurk in the jungle of Indochina in Herblocks cartoon with a title alluding to the British explorer Dr. The dramatic opening failed, however, to influence Hanoi’s negotiating stance the Vietnam War dragged on for another year. Nixon waited until February 1972 to undertake what he termed a historic “journey for peace.” The presidential visit, widely covered by the TV networks, initiated a long, gradual process of normalizing relations between Washington and Beijing. Moreover, he believed China could serve the West as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, America’s cold war antagonist. Prodded by Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser and an advocate of realpolitik, Nixon hoped the Chinese leadership would be willing to pressure its North Vietnamese allies into negotiating a peace bargain with the anti-Communist South, in return for eventual diplomatic relations with the United States and the potential of vastly expanded trade. forces from the Vietnam War ran through Beijing. By 1971, however, Nixon came to believe that the road to extricating U.S. This collection includes nine political cartoons about Richard Nixon's presidency and the Watergate scandal, as well as a cartoon analysis worksheet from the National Archives and Record Administration and a link to more cartoons about Nixon at the Library of Congress.
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