Normalizing relations with Beijing should have been the easiest thing in the world, but for the constant red-bating of Nixon and his kind.
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@ChMadar I don't think you understand that saying. He needed to inoculate himself politically to deal w/ China; a sympathizer could not. -
@tweaver7777 Nixon's long career of red-bating was not in any way shape or form a conscious inoculation for a long-planned opening to China. -
@ChMadar Good point. I shouldn't have suggested "intentional." But he was inoculated nonetheless. Hence the "only Nixon..." -
@tweaver7777 I hearya–descriptively, it's a true statement. But all the background that made it "only possible 4NtgtCh" gets swept under rug
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