Hey Lizards, again.

I finally finished the audio version of Nixon and Mao by Margaret McMillan. I didn’t really know much about this part of our history and found this book to be a great primer. It might be boring for those who have already studied it.

The intracacies of Cold War Foreign Relations and the impossibility of what Nixon and Kissinger accomplished in secret was fascinating.

At the end she quotes Mr. Spock: “Only Nixon can go to China”. I thought that worth an upding on it’s own.

Also, the entire text of the Shangai Communique is at the end of the book. A significant document, of which I knew nothing. Really, significant.

I was intrigued by the motives and words used by Nixon —it’s almost as if he was ahead of his time.