RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Nixon Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Idioms,Wikipedia. Richard M(ilhous). 1913--94, US Republican politician; 37th president from 1969 until he resigned over the Watergate scandal in 1974 ...
Within an hour or two of the U.S. delegation's arrival at the guest house, "to our surprise" Zhou came back and told Nixon's national security advisor Henry Kissinger that Chairman Mao Zedong "wanted to see the president," Winston Lord, then a Kissinger aide who went on to become the...
The national security advisor had only 48 hours to lay the groundwork for Nixon's visit. He was about to greet the prime minister of a government America did not officially recognize — in a borrowed shirt several sizes too large. The meeting was successful, after initial nervous assurances ...
foreign policy, the book offers a critical account of the manner in which the president and his national security advisor dominated the structures and processes of foreign policy making. By drawing on a wealth of previously classified documents, Siniver reveals the story of the Washington Special ...
Ehrlichman was a key political advisor.|Ehrlichman是重要的政治顾问Good morning. The Supreme Court...|早上好 最高法院...has just ruled on the tapes controversy...|刚就录音带的争论进行了裁决...and here is Carl Stern, who has that ruling.|这位是Carl Stern 他得到了裁决结果It is a unanimous...
InJuly1971,Nixon’sNationalSecurityAdvisorHenryKissingersecretlyvisitedBeijingduringatriptoPakistan,andlaidthegroundworkforNixon’svisittoChina.1972NixonvisittoChina PresidentNixon’s1972visittoChinawasthefirststepinformallynormalizingrelationsbetweentheUSandtheP.R.China.ItalsomarkedthefirsttimeaU.SPresidenthad...
In one recording, from April 17, 1971, Nixon was frustrated with the progress of the war, said Nichter: "He's encouraging National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger to up the ante, to more bombing, more bombing, more bombing." Nixon: "We'll bomb the hell out of North Vietnam. Get my...
In January 1969, a week into his presidency, Nixon called his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, into his office. The president stipulated that, among other projects for the National Security Council (NSC) staff to consider, he wanted China given high priority. General Alexander Haig, ...
Advertisement: "In 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane.Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor for Nixon at the time, also got on the phone to theJoint Chiefsand got them to agree to stand down on that order until Nixon wok...
While Graves has it right about Gray’s incompetence, a deeper dive into the White House tapes from the time would have added substance and color to her narrative. Chief domestic advisor John Ehrlichman, for example, famously quipped to John Dean that Nixon should let Gray “twist slowly, slo...