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PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON'S NEWS CONFERENCE #22
Held in the Oval Office
At the White House
Washington, D.C.
February 10, 1972
At 4:00 P.M. EST (Thursday)
Official White House Transcript
THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and gentlemen, before going
to your other questions, I would like to make an announcement
with regard to the details of the trip to Mainland China.
This will not cover all the details, but it will at least
cover those that have been announced at this time.
The official party will be announced from Florida,
Key Biscayne, on Saturday the 12th. Of course, as you know,
we have already announced that Dr. Kissinger, the Secretary of
State, Mrs. Nixon and I will be going, and the other members
of the official party at that time will be announced from
Washington.
On Monday, I have an event that I think has already
been announced, a meeting with Andre Malraux, and I am giving
a dinner that night for him to which several Congressional
leaders will be invited, as well as members of the official
party, the Secretary of State and Dr. Kissinger.
In mentioning Andre Malraux, I do not want to reflect
on many of the other experts - and there are many experts in
this field of China 1 whose books have been brought to my
attention. I do not want to indicate I have read them all,
but I have been exposed to a great number. I asked him to
come because there was an interesting coincidence.
In 1969, when I met with President deGaulle in
Paris, Mr. Malraux at that time was the Minister of Culture
in the deGaulle Cabinet. We had a discussion prior to dinner
on the subject of China generally, and I was particularly
impressed with his analysis of the leaders. His book, at
least one he has written, but his book - the one I particu-
larly refer to was his Anti-Memoirs. I commend it to you
not only for what it tells about China and its leaders, but