With Nixon in China - A Memoir
President Nixon gets a demonstration of chop stick prowess from Chinese Premier Zhou En Lai at the offical banquet welcoming the US President to China on Feb. 26, 1972 Photograph by Dirck Halstead, UPI https://digitaljournalist.org/issue0501/halstead.html The Digital Journalist - January 2005 by Dirck Halstead I have been a working news photographer and photojournalist for more than 50 years. During that time, I have covered wars, royalty, movie stars, and spent 30 years covering The White House. But if I had to point to one story that was the most important I ever covered there would be no doubt as to the winner: the trip of President Richard Nixon to China in 1972. I had covered the Nixon presidential campaign in 1968 for UPI and during the next four years, although I was then based in New York, I was frequently asked to cover Nixon's major international trips. In July of 1971, while Nixon was summering in San Clemente, a bombshell went off. It was revealed that National Secur