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Index
HK = Henry Kissinger
PRC = People’s Republic of China
RN = Richard Nixon
A
Abplanalp, Robert, 270
Acheson, Dean, 103, 243, 300
Afro-Asian Ping-Pong Tournament, 206
Agnew, Spiro, 7, 187, 312, 318
and cancelled visit to Chiang Kai-shek, 186
criticism of media, 150, 178
Air Force One (US presidential aircraft)
Kissinger’s use (1971), 205, 210
transporting RN’s coffin, 324
trip to PRC (1972), 21, 23, 67, 290
world tour (1969), 58
Aitken, Jonathan, 20
Albania, 32, 211, 280
Alger, Horatio, 15
‘American Pie’ (song), 204
American Society of Newspaper Editors, 177
Amoy. See Xiamen Amur river, 134
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
See Gherig’s Disease (ALS)
Anderson, Jack, 219
Arbatov, Georgi, 282
Around the World in 80 Days (movie), 16
Asakai Koichiro, 284
Ashbrook, John, 313
‘A Song to Our Socialist Motherland’, 25
Associated Press, 268
Australia, 280, 310
Awami League, 215–16
B
Baker, Russell, 18
Bangladesh (earlier Pakistan), 218, 219, 233
Beijing, 4, 106, 160
accommodation for foreign visitors, 47
as capital of China, 34
condition of, 26–28
damage from Cultural Revolution, 31
diplomats in, 28
embassies in, 31
foreigners in, 30
modernization of, 27
RN arrival (1972), 22
travel outside, 31
Beijing Hotel, 270
Beijing Philharmonic, 206
Beijing University, 86
Beiping. See Beijing Belgium, 32
Bernstein, Carl, 316
Bethune, Dr Norman, 166, 177
Beyond Peace (Nixon), 324
Bhutto, Zulfikar, 219, 229, 232
Bismarck, Count von Otto, 50, 51
Bohemian Grove, 9
Bolshevik Revolution (1917), 38–39, 85, 130
Booth Luce, Claire, 21, 163
Boxer Rebellion (1898), 35, 81, 97, 125
Brandon, Henry, 198
Brandt, Willy, 199
Brezhnev, Leonid, 57, 199, 238
negotiations with Chinese, 234
nuclear weapons advancement under, 120
and USSR–PRC relations, 281–83
Brezhnev Doctrine, 120
Brown, Bill, 179
Bruce, David, 183
Buchanan, Pat, 269, 306, 307, 312
Buckley, William F., 153, 157, 268,312–13
Bulganin, Nikolay 128
Burns, John, 157
Bush, George, Jr., 12
Bush, George, Sr., 55, 60, 183
attendance at RN funeral, 324
consultations with RN, 324
and HK’s visit to China (1971), 212, 213, 214
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (film), 204
‘Butcher Tang’ (Chinese leader), 83
C
Cairo conference (1943), 241
California
Bohemian Grove, 9
Richard M. Nixon Memorial Library, 324
RN and politics in, 11, 17
Yorba Linda, 324
Cambodia, 187, 222, 232, 259, 264
extension of Vietnam War into, 120, 256
invasion by US, 169, 256
invasion by Vietnam (1978), 265
as neutral country, 258
Pol Pot and, 164
Canada, 30, 176, 211, 214, 280, 297
foreign policy, 32
and relations with PRC, 148, 164–67
Carousel (musical), 16
Carter, Jimmy, 322, 324, 325
Castlereagh, Lord, 50, 61
Ceau¸sescu, Nicolae, 162, 170
Central Intelligence Agency, 56, 161, 163
preparation of RN for 1972 trip, 21
support for Tibetan nationalists, 105
Chancellor, John, 267
Changsha, 83, 85, 86, 89
Chapin, Dwight, 48, 61, 71, 156, 205, 210
Checkers scandal, 64
Chengdu, 241
Chennault, General Claire, 98
Chen Yi, 66, 109, 132, 138, 144, 199
membership in Four Marshals study group, 141–42
relationship with Mao Tse-tung, 92
Chiang Ching-kuo (Chiang Kai-shek’s son), 290, 310
Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) and Guomindang, 41–42
meeting with Ronald Reagan, 289
path to power, 86–87, 126, 186, 211, 310
and People’s Republic of China, 41
retreat to Taiwan, 43, 102, 241
role in Second World War, 98–99
China. See also People’s Republic of China; Taiwan
Beijing as capital, 34
border expansion, 34
‘century of humiliation’, 33
grievances, 33
historical background, 34–35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 68–70
and history with UK, 34
and Japan, 37–38
Japan and German possessions, 39
and Russia, 39
and ‘unequal treaties’, 34
China lobby (US), 102
Chinese Communist Party. See People’s Republic of China
Chinese National People’s Party.See Guomindang; Taiwan
Chongqing, 126, 242
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai)
attendance at Ho Chi Minh’s funeral, 139
becomes nationalist, 84, 85
birth, 35
character, 36, 37, 43, 44
Communist and Guomindang coalition, 40
compared to Mao Tse-tung, 45
concerns about Japan, 233
contacts with North Vietnam, 261–64
dealings with Haig (Jan 1972), 221–24, 259, 263
discussions with HK (July and Oct 1971), 5, 61, 70, 147, 151–52, 154, 179–80, 183–84, 189–97, 205–10, 236, 260
discussions with RN, 228–36, 247–48, 253–54, 262–63, 308–9
and Dulles, John Foster, 33
early life, 35
education, 36–37, 38, 39
fake renunciation of Communism, 42
family, 35–36
flight from Guomindang, 41–42
as foreign minister, 43
Four Marshals study group, 141–43, 164
gift of pandas, 147
handshake comment, 33
illness and death, 318–19, 320
lifestyle, 43
and Long March, 41
marriage, 40–41
meeting with Kosygin (1969), 139–40, 144
meeting with RN, 47–48
meeting with RN and Mao Tse-tung, 75
named premier, 43
nationalist beliefs, 36
negotiating skills, 46
political beliefs, 36, 38–40
and practical statesmanship, 37
and PRC policy to US, 163–64
relationship with Mao Tse-tung, 40, 41–42, 87, 93
relations with HK, 25, 44, 229–30
at RN and Mao Tse-tung meeting, 67, 70, 71, 74
significance of handshake, 33, 111, 154, 189–90
welcome banquet for RN, 145–48, 155–56, 160
Churchill, Winston, 12, 51
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
City College (New York), 53
Clinton, Bill, 13, 52, 324
Cold War
and Communists, 11
divisiveness of, 100, 103
importance of RN visit to PRC and, 1
as relationship, 122–23
Colombia, 176
Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), 303, 315, 316
Confucianism, 35, 38, 46, 81, 319
Council on Foreign Relations, 54
Cowan, Glenn, 174–75, 176, 177
Cox, Archibald, 317 CREEP. See Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP)
Cronkite, Walter, 146, 153, 277, 299, 308
Cultural Revolution, 25, 72, 110, 134, 161, 192, 194, 207
avoidance of discussion in RN–Mao Tse-tung meeting, 2
Chen Yi and, 141–42
Chou En-lai’s effect on, 45
cruelty of, 44, 80, 91
Deng Xiaoping and, 29