Omnipresent Eye
Patrick Wright: The Nixon/Mao Show, 16 August 2007
Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao
by Margaret MacMillan.
Murray, 384 pp., £25, October 2006,0 7195 6522 7 Show More
by Margaret MacMillan.
Murray, 384 pp., £25, October 2006,
“... called Winston Lord quickly got into a limousine with Zhou and set off, leaving Bob Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, frantic with worry over their security. They entered Mao’s house, finding it ‘simple and unimposing’, as Kissinger noted, and with a ping-pong table in the hall. Then they encountered Mao himself: shuffling, speaking with ... ”