Nixons Discourse of Reconciliation in Context

remarks to Eastern media executives, Rochester, New York, 18 June 1971 remarks to Midwestern news media executives, Kansas City, Missouri, 6 July 1971, PPP RN 1971, pp. 758, 806. 

73 This reasoning was usefully summarized in Holdridge to Kissinger, Your Briefing on China for Billy Graham and Influential Conservatives, 9 August 1971, HAK Folder, Box i5,WHCF,NPM. 

74 Authors who suggest this include Earl Mazo and Stephen Hess, Nixon A Political Portrait (New York, 1968), pp. 306, 312-13 Michael Handel, The Diplomacy of Surprise Hitler, Nixon and Sadat (Cambridge, MA, 1981), Chapter 4. 

Because of the general recognition that China was motivated by Soviet pressures, early analyses suggested that Beijing was not interested in improving U.S.-PRC relations for their own sake. In one of the earliest studies of the developing U.S.-USSR-PRC relationship, the director of the 

3 INR to SoS, Sino-Soviet Relations Schism, to Triangle - to Quadrilateral , ii February 1969, Box 1974, CFPF(i967-9), RG59, NA, pp. i, 7-8. 

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