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Richard Nixon: “As a result of the meetings that I was privileged to have with Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai in Peking early in…”

On the recordJanuary 11, 1973
As a result of the meetings that I was privileged to have with Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai in Peking early in 1972, that wall of hostility is now coming down.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks at a Reception Honoring Members of the Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe of the People's Republic of China.

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