Becoming Quote by Robert Scheer

“In February, Nixon, his way paved by secret journeys that Kissinger took in 1971 to Peking, made a lavishly televised week-long visit to the…

— James T. Patterson

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of…

— Harry Shearer

Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

The Chinese did after all decide that the Soviet Union was a greater threat than the United States and decided to come to terms…

— Vijay Prashad

There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood”

— Michael Wolff

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very…

— John Pomfret

“China's internal divisions have made it far harder to strike the kind of deals that made it possible for the two countries to open…

— David E. Sanger

“Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering”

— Henry Kissinger

“President Nixon and Kissinger were joined for the promotion ceremony by CIA director Richard Helms and Defense Secretary Laird; all the men were in…

— Garrett M. Graff