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Nixon enters the main throne room of the emperor, then the smaller Hall of Perfect Harmony. In a corner is a sedan chair, gilded and elaborately carved, on which the emperor was transported to the throne. "He didn't get much exercise if he was always carried on the chair," the President observes. Following Nixon and his party as it sways through the hall seems a bizarre intrusion on the heavenly harmonies, but the building absorbs it all with splendid serenity. When the press and cameramen momentarily block the way, Nixon explains: "Our press is like an unorganized army...
...Chien-ying, 74, vice chairman of the party's Military Affairs Commission. Assumed to be Acting Defense Minister since the fall of Lin Piao. Yeh is a real power behind the throne because the continued blessing of the military may be crucial to the success of Chou's American initiatives. A representative to the U.S.-sponsored Nationalist-Communist peace negotiations in 1946-47, he was at Chou's side during the Kissinger visits and will be again during the Nixon summit. He is one of ten remaining full members of the Politburo...
Engaged. Prince Richard of Gloucester, 27, Queen Elizabeth's cousin and tenth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Birgitte van Deurs, 25, Danish secretary who met the prince six years ago while both were students at Cambridge...
...points of currency-exchange rates with European bankers and statesmen or reading a book. When Nixon agreed in talks with French President Georges Pompidou to devalue the dollar, Reuss quoted the remark made by Henry IV after that cynical monarch converted to Catholicism in order to gain the French throne: "Paris is well worth a Mass." To that Reuss added: "Now Mr. Nixon has determined that Paris is worth a minor dollar devaluation...
Nicholas was dominated by his wife, his mother and near the end of the movie, even his young son denounces him for abdicating the throne. In fairness to Nicholas, it is improbable that any Tsar could have done much better given the conditions of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. But Nicholas was certainly guilty of insensitivity and deliverate isolation from the problems of his people and the effects of his decisions. There is a good scene in which the Tsar is on his way back to Moscow for trial (a journey that is of course interrupted...