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Knowing Nixon's fascination with other people of power, like Mao Tse-tung, Kissinger stocked up on personal information about world leaders. He also supplied stories about the Ivy League, both good and bad, which the boss relished. Muskie twitted Carter about his inept fly casting but praised him for superb fly tying. Rusk bent to Kennedy's appetite for humor. Ordered to track down and fire a leaker, Rusk traced the culprit to the Oval Office. "I can't fire him, Mr. President," phoned Rusk. "It's you." They both roared...
...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
Among a series of accusations and revelations largely drawn form a book on the Nixon White House that he will release next fall. Hersh disclosed that Nixon traveled to China without any commitment from Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung that the two men would meet-a move Hersh said the former President made to draw voters' attention from the Vietnam...
Meetings in a book-choked study in Peking with Mao Tse-tung, the aging leader of one-quarter of all mankind. "I don't look bad," Mao told Kissinger just three years before his death, "but God has sent me an invitation." Much remained to be done, Mao was implying, and little time in which...
During his lifetime, Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was shrouded in mystery and reverence much as were the emperors he replaced. When I visited Peking in February 1973, Mao's portrait was everywhere. The emphasis on personality in a Marxist system was astonishing. It was as if the titanic figure who had risen from humble origins to rule nearly one-quarter of mankind did not trust the permanence of the ideology in whose name he had prevailed. In fact, in attempting to inflict upon his country the tour de force of a lasting revolution...