![]() ![]() Zhou Enlai: I don’t think Aristotle Onassis would have married Mrs. Zhou Enlai: Actually I can think of something that would have been really different. Do you think that History would have been really any different? Not at all, I say! Nixon: But now imagine that the same bullet had instead killed the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Nixon: And then - by now the perspiration is dripping from his forehead - not long after, the man who beat me was killed, cut down by an assassin’s bullet. ![]() General Secretary? For example, I once ran for president against a guy called John Kennedy. Nixon is sitting opposite and looking at a very impassive, indeed Mandarin-like, Zhou Enlai. They explained that he reads History from a Marxist point of view and enjoys all of its ironies. So Nixon asked what he should know about this Zhou Enlai. They would probably first meet a few generals and most certainly Zhou Enlai. They told him that he would not meet Mao Zedong right away. While on the plane, the US President asked his advisors what was going to happen when they get there. When Nixon went to China, things had to be scrambled in a hurry. ![]() RELATED POST: “Evidence”: The cultural differences between the FBI and the CIA Follow us on Twitter: POST: Reagan tells Soviet jokes Any resemblance to actual living persons or actual events is purely coincidental. The following anecdote regarding the historical visit of Nixon in China is a true story. “Only a Republican, perhaps only a Nixon, could have made this break and gotten away with it.”
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