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China calls : paving the way for Nixon's historic journey to China / Anne Collins Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Anne Collins, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994--Travel--China.
- Nixon, Richard M.
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994.
- Visits of state--China--History--20th century.
- Visits of state.
- Walker, Ronald H. (Ronald Hugh), 1937-.
- Walker, Ronald H.
- History.
- Travel.
- United States--Foreign relations--China.
- United States.
- International relations.
- China.
- China--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--1969-1974.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 530 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Updated 40th anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Madison Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- In 1971 the United States had no diplomatic relations or established route of communications with China. Despite that, in a stunning act of diplomacy, President Richard Nixon announced that he would travel to China to meet with its leaders. Ron Walker, director of the White House Advance Office, was chosen to make it all happen. This is the story of Walker and his team. China Calls is based on the actual transcripts of telephone calls between the advance team in Peking and the White House in Washington. Much is known about Nixon's actual visit, but the story of how it all came together has never been told until China Calls. This 40th Anniversary Edition has an updated epilogue and additional photos.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Destination: China 1
- July 15, 1971
- Chapter 2 White House Briefing 5
- January 25, 1972
- Chapter 3 Survival Suitcase 21
- January 26, 1972
- Chapter 4 Red Carpet Arrival 25
- February 1, 1972
- Chapters An Unforgettable Sound 31
- February 2, 1972
- Chapter 6 Rattan Furniture and the Red Detachment of Women 37
- February 3, 1972
- Chapter 7 Eyeball to Eyeball with the Red Chinese 63
- February 4, 1972
- Chapter 8 Colonel Coffey is Still in the Hospital 95
- February 5, 1972
- Chapter 9 Fire! 109
- February 6, 1972
- Chapter 10 Ice Cubes an& Baboon Syndrome 137
- February 7, 1972
- Chapter 11 Bye-Bye, Miss American Pie 167
- February 8, 1972
- Chapter 12 A Communist Plot 195
- February 9, 1972
- Chapter 13 A Gymnasium with Waiters 225
- February 10, 1972
- Chapter 14 The Strangest Imaginable Sort of People 267
- February 11, 1972
- Chapter 15 750 Pounds Looking for a Forklift 281
- February 12, 1972
- Chapter 16 Ancient Chinese Herbal Medicine 307
- February 13, 1972
- Chapter 17 No Room for Valentines 311
- February 14, 1972
- Chapter 18 Dateline: Peking 341
- February 15, 1972
- Chapter 19 You Lost General Redman? 385
- February 16, 1972
- Chapter 20 We Came in Peace 423
- February 17, 1972
- Chapter 21 Massaging Egos in Hawaii 433
- February 18, 1972
- Chapter 22 Flexibility, Centralization, and Points of Principle 459
- February 19, 1972
- Chapter 23 See You Tomorrow 463
- February 20, 1972
- Chapter 24 "The Week that Changed the World" 479
- February 21, 1972.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Richard Nixon Foundation."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781568332659
- 1568332653
- 9781568332666
- 1568332661
- OCLC:
- 785786665
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