Henry Kissinger

Grading rapprochement

February 24, 2022

Did Nixon's trip change the world?

Getting to Beijing: Henry Kissinger's Secret 1971 Trip

Premier Zhou Enlai and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger
July 21, 2011

A documentary history of US efforts under Richard Nixon to open discussions with Chinese leaders, an effort that yielded Kissinger's trip forty years ago this month. Photo: Premier Zhou Enlai and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.

Henry Kissinger and Mao Zedong "Memorandum of Conversation," November 12, 1973, 5:40-8:25pm

November 12, 1973

Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, spoke with Chinese leaders at Chairman Mao's residence in Beijing.