Episode 71: RICHARD NIXON 1972 The Foundation of Peace (Part 2) EUREKA!! Putting the trip to China Together

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In this episode we look backwards at how the China initiative came together. Richard Nixon had envisioned reaching out to China long before he became President of the United States. He wrote an article for Foreign Affairs magazine in 1967 where he talked briefly about Asia after Vietnam and the importance of reaching out to China. There were hints in his inaugural Address about building a world in which no one lived "in angry isolation"

This was such a different approach than was being considered in diplomatic circles or in the basic tenants of American foreign policy that…