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xv Acknowledgments A number of people helped me produce this book. John Powers, formerly of the Nixon Project and now the deputy director of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Information Security Oversight Office, pointed me to the President’s Office Files as well as identified specific Nixon tapes to which I should listen. I have benefited from our numerous discussions over the past five years. Bridget Crowley, also formerly of the Nixon Project, helped me order all the boxes relating to China and burned a copy of the Haldeman Diaries on CD-ROM for me. Richard A. Moss, formerly a colleague at the Office of the Historian, burned Nixon tapes for me and provided me with his own transcripts, especially from the IndoPakistan crisis. Any errors in the transcriptions are mine. The Interlibrary Loan staff at the Gelman Library at the George Washington University found a number of books, especially memoirs, that I needed. At Louisiana State University Press I would like to thank Alisa Plant for believing in the project and shepherding it through the entire process. I would also especially like to thank my copy editor, Maria denBoer, for improving the manuscript by catching mistakes and for smoothing out some of the rough edges in my writing. Thomas A. Schwartz read the entire manuscript and made a number of critical suggestions that I have incorporated into the final version. I cannot thank him enough for all the support he has given me, not just on this book, but on my career as a scholar over the past five years. I have also bene fited from discussions about the issue of Sino-U.S. rapprochement with Malgorzata K. Gnoinska, James Hershberg, Chen Jian, Lorenz Luthi, Tanvi Madan, Richard Moss, Robert McMahon, Bernd Schaefer, Peter Vamos, David Wolff, and Thomas Zeiler. My colleagues at the Office of the Historian, David Zierler and Seth Center , also read the entire manuscript and made some very helpful suggestions. xvi acknowledgments Evan Dawley and Joseph Wicentowski translated Chinese names into pinyin for me, and Joseph also optimized the photographs for me. Kristin L. Ahlberg read chapter 8 and also gave me critical editorial feedback. David Herschler, Susan Holly, Stephanie Hurter, Kelly McFarland, Nathaniel Smith, and Dean Weatherhead provided plenty of encouragement along the way. I would also to thank my family and my friends and for their unflagging support and encouragement. I also want to thank all my students at The George Washington University, whose comments sharpened not only my ideas but my own writing. This book is dedicated to my nephew, Jake Scully, my best friend. ...

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