1971 Richard Nixon Public Address
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newsreel - sound - A Presidential Message - July 15 1971 - President Richard Nixon announces upcoming visit to Peoples Republic of China - Reporter Lincoln Furber announces that Nixon will speak on an unknown topic - Nixon at podium in TV studio live from Los Angeles - There can be no peace in southeast Asia without China - reads announcement of invitation to visit China produced at Henry Kissinger secret meeting with Chinese premier Zhou Enlai in Peking / Nixon expresses desire for peace and normal relations between United States and China and all nations / analysis and discussion with White House press reporters Don Oberdorfer - Stuart Loory / reporter Warren Unna gives reaction - posits involvement by Nicolai Ceausescu of Romania / group discusses last contact between US and China - possibility of communist China joining United Nations - role of Chiang Kai shek / comparison with Soviet Union - never visited by American President - Johnson visit scuttled in 1968 - effect on Chinese Soviet relations - US Soviet relations - possibility of increase in tension with Kremlin / Oberdorfer on Nixon's longstanding interest in China / Loory on the establishment of diplomatic relations with China - complication with Nationalist party - recognition by Canada - backlash from China lobby - international relations - Presidential politics - American political history - communism - diplomacy