Winston Churchill, 1954. A somber Prime Minister strides into St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, for the funeral of a long-time associate. (Wide World)
Winston Churchill, 1954. A somber Prime Minister strides into St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, for the funeral of a long-time associate. (Wide World)
Churchill as campaigner seeking reelection to Parliament as leader of the Opposition in 1950, a year before his return to power as Prime Minister. (Wide World)
Churchill riding from the airport to the White House, accompanied by the author, during his 1954 visit to Washington. (United Press International)
Churchill as a child, as an officer of the Fourth Hussars, and as a young member of Parliament. (Wide World photos)
Charles de Gaulle with the author as they walk through the palace of Versailles, 1969. (White House photo)
President and Madame de Gaulle in London, 1960, being driven along Fleet Street in an open carriage en route to a luncheon at the Guildhall. (Wide World)
De Gaulle’s official portrait as President of France. (Wide World)
The many faces of de Gaulle: his expressions as caught by the camera at a presidential press conference. (Wide World photos)
Douglas MacArthur with the author in 1958, on MacArthur’s seventy-eighth birthday. (Wide World photos)
With former President Herbert Hoover in 1957. (Wide World photos)
MacArthur with his mother, who lived near the campus during his years at West Point. (Wide World photos)
As a brigadier general in command of the Rainbow Division during World War I. (Wide World photos)
MacArthur smoking his corncob pipe moments after landing in defeated Japan in 1945. (Wide World photos)
Speaking to a crowd in San Francisco in 1951 after being fired by President Truman. (Wide World photos)
MacArthur testifying during the Senate Korea hearings. (Wide World photos)
MacArthur waves to his troops from his landing barge at Morotai Island, south of the Philippines, 1944. (Wide World)
With General Dwight D. Eisenhower, his former aide, during Eisenhower’s May 1946 visit to Japan. (United Press International)
MacArthur with Shigeru Yoshida in 1954, when the Japanese Premier visited the former supreme commander in New York. (Wide World photos)
Yoshida at home in 1953, dressed in a Japanese kimono. (Wide World photos)
Yoshida meeting Konrad Adenauer in West Germany during Yoshida’s around-the-world trip in 1954. (Wide World)
Adenauer arrives in France in 1963 for his last meeting as Chancellor with his friend de Gaulle. The French President, as chief of state, broke protocol in order to go personally to the airport to greet the West German head of government. (Wide World)
The author with Adenauer in Bonn in 1963.
Adenauer and his wife, Gussi, pay a postwar visit to the cell in Brauweiler prison where Adenauer had been imprisoned by the Nazis in 1944. (Wide World)
Nikita Khrushchev and the author engage in their “kitchen debate” at the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959; the then little-known Soviet official standing behind the author is Leonid Brezhnev. (Wide World photos)
During a motorboat ride on the Moscow River, Khrushchev pauses so that he and the author can greet a group of swimmers. (Wide World photos)
Brezhnev stresses a point during a discussion in the study of the author’s San Clemente home in 1973. (White House photo)
Also in San Clemente, Brezhnev tapes a televised speech to the American people, to be broadcast at the conclusion of that year’s summit meeting. (Wide World)
Brezhnev and the author contemplating the globe in Brezhnev’s office during the 1972 summit. The portrait above is of Lenin. (White House photo)
Zhou Enlai in 1972, photographed during a break in meetings with Canada’s Foreign Minister. (United Press International)
Arriving in Peking for the first time in 1972, the author reaches out for his historic handshake with Zhou. (United Press International)
Zhou in 1936, returning to Yenan during a break in negotiations with the Kuomintang. (Wide World)
Mao with the author in 1972, at Mao’s home. (Wide World)
Sukarno with one of his six wives in 1947 at a reception celebrating Indonesia’s independence from the Dutch. (Wide World photos)
Sukarno the orator. (Wide World photos)
Khrushchev and Sukarno model sarongs during the Soviet leader’s 1960 state visit to Indonesia. (Wide World)
Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, with Mrs. Nixon and the author in New Delhi in 1953. (Ed Clark, Life magazine, ©Time Inc.)
Nehru in conversation with the author.
A contemplative Chiang Kai-shek prepares to deliver a speech to Taiwan’s national assembly in 1972; inset: Chiang in 1943, as Acting President of China. (Wide World photos)
Madame Chiang with Mrs. Nixon in Taipei. (Wu Chung-yee)
Alcide de Gasperi announcing that his Christian Democratic party has won a decisive victory over the Communists in the 1948 Italian general elections. (United Press International)
The author talks with Kwame Nkrumah during the 1957 festivities marking Ghana’s independence from Great Britain.
Ramon Magsaysay at the wheel of his jeep in the Philippines in 1956. The author is at left; Mrs. Nixon and Mrs. Magsaysay are in the backseat. (Wide World photos)
An exuberant Magsaysay following his landslide election as President in 1953. (Wide World photos)
As Prime Minister of Israel. (Wide World photos)
Meir arriving at the White House for a state dinner in her honor in 1969. (Wide World photos)
With the author during the same state visit. (Wide World photos)
The author with Ben-Gurion in the former Prime Minister’s cluttered study in 1966. (Wide World photos)
Anwar Sadat during a press conference in London before making his last visit to the U.S. in August 1981. (Wide World)
Marching in the Shah’s funeral procession in Cairo in July 1980; from left to right: Empress Farah, the Shah’s widow; the author; Crown Prince Reza Pahlevi; President Sadat. (United Press International)
The Shah escorts Mrs. Nixon to dinner during his visit to the U.S. in 1958. (United Press International)
King Faisal during the author’s 1974 visit to Saudi Arabia. Alexander Haig, then White House chief of staff, is second from left. (White House photo)
De Gaulle with Faisal at the Elysée Palace in 1967. (Wide World)
Menzies visits Churchill at 10 Downing Street in 1952. (Wide World)
