“Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing instructive in what I wrote.”

— Mao Zedong

Excerpt of meeting with Nixon 1972, quoted in The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Road_to_War/SDb3PSD__KwC?hl=en&gbpv=0 (May 9, 2013) by Marvin Kalb
1970s

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Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of… 1893–1976

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