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    WL: First of all, just to help you, the Nixon memoir account of this, of course, is really quite full and good, so I mean, that's not like being on tape. It's something you may want to take a look at, if you haven't; and I edited that book, so I'm sure there were no mistakes. (Laughter) Getting ready for the secret trip of Kissinger to China was of course very dramatic and exciting, but also very difficult both to assemble (our substance of?) positions and to work out the logistics. On the substance, Kissinger would often call on outside scholars to get their ideas on various foreign policy issues, and he did that with Chinese scholars, but of course not letting on why he was picking their brains. He himself had had very little experience with China, but he was a brilliant analyst and very quick at picking up strategic approaches, of course. (Clears throat) We had a person on the staff, John Haldwich, who knew a lot more about Asia and China at that point than I did, and so I wo

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    As special assistant to then-National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger, Winston LordLord is the son of Mary Pillsbury Lord, heir to the Pillsbury Flour Co. and a prominent political figure and former head of the UN Human Rights Commission was one of a handful of people who took part in Kissinger’s secret visit to China in July , which paved the way for President Richard Nixon’s historic trip to the People's Republic of China the following year. Lord later held various roles in governm

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    Winston Lord

    American diplomat

    Winston Lord (born August 14, ) is a retired American diplomat. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor and then as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State, Lord was a close adviser to Henry Kissinger and was instrumental in bringing about the renormalization of U.S.-China relations in the s.

    He later served as President of the Council on Foreign Relations from to , United States Ambassador to China from to , and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from to [1]

    Early life and education

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    Lord was born in New York City on August 14, , as the youngest of three sons born to Oswald Bates Lord, a textile executive for Galey and Lord, which later became a division of Burlington Industries, and Mary Pillsbury Lord, a granddaughter of the Pillsbury Company co-founder Charles Alfred Pillsbury.[2][3]

    His oldest brother, Charles Pillsbury Lord, was