BONUS: The Great Wager

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🗓️ 6 March 2022

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Summary

President Richard Nixon has a plan: He wants to go to China. The only problem? The U.S. and China have had zero contact since the Communist Party took over China two decades before.

In this episode of The Great Wager from NPR and WBUR's Here & Now, host Jane Perlez digs into the beginning of Nixon's improbable diplomatic mission.

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0:00.0	Hey, consider this listeners Elsa Chang here with a weekend bonus episode.
0:05.4	This one takes us back in time to 50 years ago, when then President Richard Nixon went to
0:10.2	China to meet with Maljadong.
0:12.7	At the time, a diplomatic relationship between these two leaders seemed improbable.
0:18.0	Nixon was an avowed anti-communist, and China was in the middle of the brutal cultural
0:23.0	revolution.
0:24.0	But they did have a common opponent, the Soviet Union.
0:29.3	This is the first episode, and a new series from NPR and WBURs here and now.
0:35.0	It's called The Great Wager, and it's hosted by Jane Perles of the New York Times.
0:40.4	And after you finish this one, you can find the rest of the episodes in Here and Now's
0:44.4	podcast feed.
0:45.4	Okay, Jane will take it from here.
0:55.5	Here's the White House, 1969.
0:58.4	Richard Nixon is the new president of the United States.
1:01.4	Richard Noel House next to him.
1:03.2	Hail to the Chief.
1:04.6	He's sitting in the Oval Office, and he's mulling over a big idea that he thinks will cement
1:10.4	his legacy as a great president.
1:13.8	He calls his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, into the Oval.
1:18.7	The two men sit down.
1:20.6	Nixon tells Kissinger, we want to make friends with China.
1:25.3	Get moving?
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