If memory serves me correctly, when they were closing in on Nixon....

[George II]

....he made his trip to China.

What's trump doing today?

[treestar]

1. Haha thanks

Though the Orange Idiot cannot get as much out of it - wasn't it a bigger deal when Nixon did it? I think there is even an opera about it.

[MuseRider]

2. The Opera

Nixon in China. John Adams.

[roamer65]

3. Nixon made his trip to China in early 1972.

He was re-elected in November 1972 in a landslide. Watergate picked up steam in 1973 and 1974.

Fun fact, Pierre Trudeau normalized relations with China in 1970, upstaging Nixon. Nixon never forgave him for it. Trudeau was a great PM and light years beyond Tricky Dick in integrity.

[George II]

4. Thanks. It was a long time ago. Maybe he made a trip to the USSR? What I remember....

...is that when he got back from a long trip he suffered from phlebitis, which he used as an excuse to evade the public for a while.

Then again, it was 45 years ago so things are fuzzy.

[roamer65]

5. Yeah, I hear you. Many years ago now.

I remember right he had phlebitis right around when he started getting grilled on Watergate.

I think Brezhnev came to DC, but I could be mistaken.