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China Calls : Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China - Anne Collins Walker

China Calls

Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China

By: Anne Collins Walker

Paperback | 15 June 2012 | Edition Number 40

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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.
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Ron Walker's work directly increased the prospects for a successful Presidential visit... I am so pleased that the Richard Nixon Library... is publishing this insider account of one of modern history's last true expeditions into the unknown. -- Richard Nixon, President of the United States Richard Nixon's journey to China in 1972 was one of [the twentieth]century's most important and dramatic events in the big power game.China Calls is an absolutely unique and fascinating look at how that great permission was put together, and made to work. -- Hugh Sidey, TIME MAGAZINE

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