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Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Trip to China in August [Notice to Press]
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Digitized from Box 13 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
JU
21, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
NOTICE TO THE PRESS
The Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs of the People's
Republic of China has invited a bipartisan Congressional delegation
to visit China for about ten days beginning August 20. The
delegation will be headed by Representative John B. Anderson
(R-Illinois), with Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia)
as deputy leader. Members of the group include Representative
John Slack (D-West Virginia), Representative Edward J. Derwinski
(R-Illinois), Senator James B. Pearson (R-Kansas), and
Senator Sam Nunn (D-Georgia).
Details of the trip, which was agreed to in principle during
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's November, 1974 trip to
Peking, are now being worked out between officials of the
White House and the State Department in consultation with
the Liaison Office of the People's Republic of China in
Washington.
This will be the ninth delegation of American officials to visit
China since the Administration initiated efforts to normalize
U.S. -PRC relations in 1971 -- apart from President Nixon's
visit in February, 1972 and Secretary Kissinger's seven trips
to Peking. The eight previous groups included seven Congressional
delegations. These were led by:
Senator Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott in April, 1972.
-- Representative Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford in June
of that same year (1972).
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- A group led by Senator Warren Magnuson and Representative
Thomas Morgan in July, 1973.
-- A visit by Senator Henry M. Jackson in July of 1974.
-- A second trip by Senator Mansfield in December, 1974.
--- A delegation headed by Senator J. William Fulbright and
Representative Peter Frelinghuysen in September of last year (1974).
- And a visit by Representatives Carl Albert and John Rhodes
this April (1975).
There was also a visit by a delegation of six state governors, led by
Governor Daniel Evans of Washington, in May of 1974.
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