YORBA LINDA, Calif., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Just-declassified sections from the audio diary of Richard Nixon's chief-of-staff HR Haldeman provide fascinating new details into the behind-the-scenes strategies and personalities during negotiations that would lead to nuclear treaties and a historic new relationship with China.
Some of the more colorful information involves China, such as Americans' desperate struggle to stay sober at a Chinese banquet as they tried to keep up with toast after toast with top communists.