Nixon in China- A Question of Interpretation

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July 11, 2019 • 9 mins

Nixon's "jowls were wobbling in anger" when a young foreign service officer, during Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China, saved the President from embarrassment by refusing to interpret. Here is the story.

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