Grasping a new reality
WASHINGTON — First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand. As TV cameras flashed the scene worldwide, President Richard Nixon and first lady Pat Nixon descended the steps of Air Force One to a waiting Zhou on a Beijing runway.
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