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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (182401)	2/14/2012 11:18:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 544178

Captain Spock: There is an old Vulcan proverb: only Nixon could go to China. Star Trek VI: (China), The Undiscovered Country

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (182401)	2/14/2012 12:55:54 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 544178

<<I meant because you don't give Nixon Credit for opening up China, whereas, I've never read a history (doesn't mean one doesn't exist) that didn't give him kudos for that.>> The reason is because I remember very clearly that at the time, if a Democrat had tried to go to China Nixon would have called them a commie. NIxon was rising to power during red baiting, the John birch society and Mccarthy's House of Unamerican Activities. In those days the right wing called liberals pinko's and commies.