6. Memorandum of Conversation, February 24, 1972, 9:59 A.M.–12:42 P.M., pp. 6, 19, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Country Files–Far East, Box 92, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972; WHY, p. 1077.
7. Memorandum of Conversation, Thursday, February 24, 1972, 9:59 A.M.–12:42P.M., p. 22, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Country Files–Far East, Box 92, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972.
8. Memorandum of Conversation, Tuesday, February 22, 1972, 10:05 A.M.–11:55A.M., pp. 7–9, 10; Memorandum of Conversation, February 24, 1972, 9:59A.M.–12:42 A.M., pp. 18, 20, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Box 92, Country Files–Far East, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972.
9. USOH, Supplement, Gleysteen; Garver, Sino-American, pp. 271–72.
10. Memorandum of Conversation, Thursday, February 24, 1972, 9:59 A.M.–12:42A.M, p. 19, and Memorandum of Conversation, Friday, February 25, 1972, 9:34A.M.–10:58 A.M., pp. 7–8, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Box 92, Country Files–Far East, NPM, National Security Council Files, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972; Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 419–21; RN, p. 572.
11. Haldeman, CD-ROM, February 25, 1972, February 26, 1972; Memorandum of Conversation, February 22, 1972, 10:05 A.M.–11:55 A.M., p. 7, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Box 92, Country Files–Far East, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972.
12. RN, p. 573; Globe and Mail, February 28, 1972.
13. Thomas, Front Row, p. 190; New York Times, February 27, 1972; Globe and Mail, February 28, 2006; Osborne, p. 29; WHY, p. 1082; Kraft, pp. 35–36.
14. Osborne, pp. 27–28.
15. Tyler, pp. 138–39; USOH, Green, chapter VI.
16. Tucker, China Confidential, p. 274; USOH, Green, chapter VI.
17. USOH, Green, chapter VI; WHY, p. 1083; Tyler, p. 140.
18. Memorandum of Conversation, Saturday, February 26–Sunday, February 27, 1972, 10:20 P.M.–1:40 A.M., NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Box 92, Country Files–Far East, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972; WHY, pp. 1083–84; author interview with Zhang Hanzhi.
19. USOH, Green, chapter VI; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 422.
20. USOH, Green, chapter VI; Globe and Mail, February 28, 1972.
21. Kraft, p. 37; Zhang Hanzhi, p. 256; Globe and Mail, February 28, 1972; New York Times, February 28, 1972.
22. Globe and Mail, February 28, 1972; New York Times, February 28, 1972; Memorandum of Conversation, February 23, 1972, 2:00 P.M.–6:00 P.M., NSA, Nixon’s Trip to China: Records Now Completely Declassified, Doc. 2, pp. 14–15.
23. Memorandum of Conversation, February 27, 1972, 11:30 A.M.–1:55 P.M., pp. 7–8, 10–11, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Country Files–Far East, Box 92, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972; Green, Holdridge, and Stokes, pp. 146–47.
24. Kalb, pp. 280–81; Kraft, pp. 38–39; Halstead, p. 10; New York Times, February 28, 1972; USOH, Green, chapter VI; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 422; Tyler, p. 143.
25. Memorandum of Conversation, February 25, 1972, 4:50 P.M.–5:25 P.M., p. 6, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Country Files–Far East, Box 92, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February1972;ZhangHanzhi, pp.251–52;authorinterviewwithZhangHanzhi.
26. Tyler, p. 143; WHY, p. 1069.
27. Memorandum of Conversation, Sunday, February 27–Monday, February 28, 1972, 11:05 P.M.–12:30 A.M., pp. 1–3, NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Country Files–Far East, Box 92, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972.
28. Haldeman, Diaries, p. 422; WHY, p. 1086.
29. Cronkite, p. 325; author interview with Zhang Hanzhi.
30. Memorandum of Conversation, Monday, February 28, 1972, 8:30 A.M.–9:30 A.M., NSA, Record of Historic Richard Nixon–Zhou Enlai Talks in February 1972, Doc. 7, pp. 3–5, 8–11.
31. Holdridge, p. 95; Reeves, p. 457; Haldeman, CD-ROM, February 28, 1972; Halstead, p. 10.
32. Globe and Mail, February 28, 1972; Zhang Hanzhi, p. 256; USOH, Freeman; Halstead, p. 10; Haldeman, CD-ROM, February 28, 1972.
33. Holdridge, pp. 98–102; USOH, Green, chapter VII; Taylor, p. 308; USOH, Freeman; Welfield, p. 310; Doran and Lee, pp. 710, 731.
34. Chancellor, p. 91; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 423.
CONCLUSION
1. Life, 72.9 (March 10, 1972), pp. 11–12; Foot, Practice of Power, p. 107; Tyler, pp. 143–44.
2. Hamilton, p. 117; Bundy, pp. 314–21; WHY, pp. 1118–19, 1122, 1142, 1146; RN, pp. 881–83; Kozyrev, pp. 267–76.
3. Bundy, pp. 322–27; Burr, Transcripts, pp. 68–70; Wang, pp. 158–164; Memorandum for the President from Henry A. Kissinger, March 2, 1973; Memorandum for the President from Henry A. Kissinger, November 19, 1973, NSA, China and the United States, Doc. CH00259 and Doc. CH 00277.
4. Shen, pp. 13, 184–85.
5. Holdridge, pp. 118–21, 124–26.
6. Haldeman, Diaries, p. 472.
7. Reeves, pp. 519–20, 526.
8. Ibid., pp. 527, 531–32.
9. Ibid., pp. 558–59.
10. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 122; Isaacson, p. 503.
11. RN, p. 1076; Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 1210.
12. Harding, pp. 48, 64.
13. Memorandum for the President from Henry A. Kissinger, November 19, 1973, NSA, China and the United States, Doc. CH 00277, pp. 4–5; Shambaugh, p. 177; Li Zhisui, pp. 580–81, 584–85.
14. Li Zhisui, pp. 572–73, 582–83; author interview with Henry Kissinger.
15. Holdridge, pp. 143–50; Short, Mao, pp. 606–11.
16. Short, Mao, pp. 621–22; USOH, Supplement, Gleysteen; Nixon, Leaders, p. 239.
17. Ma, pp. 379–86; Short, Mao, pp. 620–24.
18. Barmé, pp. 8–9, 22, 43, 46, 52, 196, 211.
19. Ma, pp. 389–90, 399–400.
20. Isaacson, pp. 708–09; chapter 33 passim.
21. Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 1212; RN, p. 1083; Summers, p. 485; Newsweek, May 19, 1986.
22. Brodie, p. 470; Summers, pp. ix–xi; New York Times, April 28, 1994.
23. Crowley, p. 159.
24. Tyler, pp. 275–78.
25. Crowley, p. 159; Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2006.
26. See, for example, Mann, chapters 1 and 2; Bundy, pp. 523–24; Memorandum of Conversation, February 21, 1972, 4:15 P.M.–5:30 P.M., NPM, National Security Council Files, HAK Office Files, Box 92, Country Files–Far East, Dr. Kissinger’s Meetings in the PRC During the Presidential Visit February 1972, p. 4.
27. Memorandum of Conversation, October 20, 1971, 4:40 P.M.–7:10 P.M., NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 70, Doc. 10; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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