He’s arrived, and here’s a thread for discussing the visit.
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Trump goes to China — 2 Comments
For the younger Neophiles:
“Nixon in China” is a 1987 opera based on the president’s trip in February 1972 which I remember. At the time, it was heralded as one of his triumphs. In hindsight, there are some caveats about hope getting mugged by reality.
Now, he is remembered only for the Watergate disaster, which broke in June that same year.
I don’t think anyone made a musical out of that national nightmare, although Woodward and Bernstein got a movie.
I hope history doesn’t repeat itself with either event.
PS Looking at the list of important people on this trip, I hope they went in more than one plane, and are not all in the same building at the same time.
Even aside from the White House Correspondents assassination attempt, there are other precedents of large-scale disasters involving important groups.
Some might have been accidental.
@AesopFan : PS Looking at the list of important people on this trip…
I just noticed and I am bowled over. This meeting could change the next 25 years for the world.
Trump is swinging for the fences.
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For the younger Neophiles:
“Nixon in China” is a 1987 opera based on the president’s trip in February 1972 which I remember. At the time, it was heralded as one of his triumphs. In hindsight, there are some caveats about hope getting mugged by reality.
Now, he is remembered only for the Watergate disaster, which broke in June that same year.
I don’t think anyone made a musical out of that national nightmare, although Woodward and Bernstein got a movie.
https://ia600503.us.archive.org/4/items/cd_nixon-in-china_john-adams-alice-goodman-orchestra-of-st./cd_nixon-in-china_john-adams-alice-goodman-orchestra-of-st..pdf
I hope history doesn’t repeat itself with either event.
PS Looking at the list of important people on this trip, I hope they went in more than one plane, and are not all in the same building at the same time.
Even aside from the White House Correspondents assassination attempt, there are other precedents of large-scale disasters involving important groups.
Some might have been accidental.
@AesopFan : PS Looking at the list of important people on this trip…
I just noticed and I am bowled over. This meeting could change the next 25 years for the world.
Trump is swinging for the fences.