Margaret MacMillan talks "Nixon and Mao" at the Nixon Library

[@tiramisu10001]

It is always a joy to listen to Margaret MacMillan's lectures.

[@cecilefox9136]

What an extraordinary historian!!

[@disoriented1]

She is Canadian, but does speak like a Brit, having held several posts of distinction at Oxford University..(a message from those who pay attention in the U.S.)

[@celloswiss]

She certainly does not speak like a Brit at all. Her English is Canadian. On a completely different note, she speaks like an intelligent woman, which is exactly what she is.

[@rm6763]

Her accent is a very highly educated central Canadian. It’s not British at all, but may sound more British to an American.

[@billolsen4360]

I think her grandfather was David Lloyd George.

[@narendersangwan644]

Nixon and Indira Gandhi too are important as far as Indian History is concerned. The Time period You are discussing that is January 1972.South Asian Subcontinent too had changed dramatically on 16th December, 1971.

[@PirateRadioPodcasts]

NEVER forget Canadian PM, & the "CLUB of ROME's" Pierre Elliot Trudeau. As far as western heads of state are concerned, he preceded NIXON in meeting Mao, but few seem 2 recall. Hmmmmmmm .....

[@ms2506]

And look at where that "contact" has brought us now.

[@jimmywang1586]

So maybe Nixon shouldn't make contact with PRC China? You'll most likely end up with a much bigger threat that's more dangerous than North Korea today.

[@lumpydark6173]

Contact with China was the right call. A country doesn't have permanent friends just permanent interests. Now it is time to do with China what the US did with the USSR.

[@KevinBalch-dt8ot]

I don’t think what happened subsequently is what Nixon had in mind. Even though many of his economic policies were failures, Nixon had no problem ditching Bretten Woods if it would benefit the American people. I don’t think Nixon would have favored offshoring the US economy. I liken the current situation to the elaborate juggling act Bismarck set up that required a Bismarck to maintain it. The subsequent policymakers were unequal to the task.

[@narendersangwan644]

You have got splendid sense of humour. All intelligent people have this attribute given by God.

[@billolsen4360]

People who knew Lincoln would agree to that!

[@douglascarter5943]

Excuse me? She is not British but CANADIAN but teaches in Britain. Credibility remains an issue. :(

[@syedadeelhussain2691]

her great-grandfather was Loyld George

[@narendersangwan644]

1962,1969 are Two events India did nothing consciously. But mysteriously helped India in 1970 and 1971.

[@brothernet]

Macmillan的讲座，快进到 16:00 讲美中谍报战，贸易战，在香港的非法贸易，非常珍贵，我从没在中文媒体见过这么鲜活的史料。But it'd be premature for her to say Mao decided to fall into Soviet camp in 1949.

[@yp77738yp77739]

She would have made a wonderful policy advisor, probably too much integrity to ever consider politics.

[@chrisshaw9953]

David REYNOLDS

[@mkcorzouu]

im sorry if you criticized Nixon for not pulling out of vietnam, then why does it change that he wanted the vietnamese to negotiate? the whole point of the anti war movement was that the us should not get involved, so nixon wanting the vietnamese to negotiate means he wanted to keep influence there wich was the status quo that brought upon the war in the first place.

[@michaelplunkett8059]

He started the draw down as soon as he got into office. Troop levels went from 536k to 0 in 5 years.

[@mkcorzouu]

@michaelplunkett8059 thats not the reason she quoted

[@mkcorzouu]

@michaelplunkett8059 he was elected to end the war but did not want to