Excerpt From a Talk With Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower

#PUBLICATION NOTE

This edition of Excerpts From a Talk With Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following editions:

  • Chairman Mao Meets Daughter of Former US President Nixon and Her Husband, in Beijing Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2nd of January, 1976).
  • Chairman Mao Says Good-Bye, in Ladies' Home Journal (January 1977).
  • Biography of Mao Zedong, 1949-76.

#INTRODUCTION NOTE

These are excerpts from a talk between Comrade Mao Zedong and Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower in Beijing, China in the evening of the 31st of December, 1975.

The notice of the New China News Agency reads:

Chairman Mao Zedong met on the evening of the 31st of December, 1975 with Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of former US President Richard Nixon, and her husband David Eisenhower.

At the meeting, Julie conveyed her father's regards to Chairman Mao. She said that she was honoured to be here to bring her father's greetings to Chairman Mao and that her parents were deeply impressed by their visit to China in 1972. David extended greetings to Chairman Mao on behalf of his family. Chairman Mao had a conversation with them in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. At the end of the conversation, Chairman Mao asked them to convey, after returning home, his regards to Mr. Richard Nixon, and said that Mr. Nixon was welcome to revisit China.

Present at the meeting were Qiao Guanhua, Foreign Minister; Huang Zhen, Chief of the Chinese Liaison Office in the United States; Wang Hairong, Deputy Foreign Minister; and Tang Wensheng and Zhang Hanzhi, Deputy Departmental Directors of the Foreign Ministry.

#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!

#EXCERPTS FROM A TALK WITH JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER AND DAVID EISENHOWER

#Mao Zedong
#31st of December, 1975

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MAO ZEDONG: Mr. Nixon is welcome in China.

How is Mr. Nixon's leg?

Tomorrow, two of my poems will be published. One of them is a criticism of Hrusev. It is nothing. I wrote it in 1965.

Young people are soft. They have to be reminded of the need for struggle. We are in the midst of the class struggle here, a struggle of the people. There will be struggle in the Party, there will be struggle between the classes; nothing is certain except struggle. Without struggle, there is no progress. Can 800'000'000 people manage without struggle?! What do you think?

JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER: I agree.

MAO ZEDONG: We are not terrible. We recognize that people commit errors, and, if they understand their errors, they are fully restored to their former posts. We don't shoot people. We forgave several Nationalists the other day.

When your father comes, I will be waiting.

You people are young. Come back to China. In ten years' time, it will be great.