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Episode 244 The LEADERSHIP of GEORGE BUSH (Part 15) Tiananmen Square
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President George Bush had been the first envoy to China during the Ford Administration. A job he had loved. He was a friend to the People's Republic of China, and he actually picked the nation to be the first place he went on an official trip as President.
Which put him, and his administration, in an awful spot when Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to crush a student demonstration that had gone on for several weeks in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. It would take the deft management of this skilled diplomat to weather the storm of outrage in our country as this tragedy…
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