When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

In 1972, Nixon normalized American relationship with China, thus creating pressure on the Soviet Union.

* 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

After US President Richard Nixon made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place between the two countries.

His well-known operas include Nixon in China ( 1987 ), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

The Chairman Dances ( Foxtrot for Orchestra ) ( 1985 ): This is a by-product of Nixon in China, set in the three days of President Nixon's visit to Beijing in February 1972.

Adams was the first composer to have earned the latter award three times, having previously won the award for El Dorado ( 1998 ) and Nixon in China ( 1989 ).

At first release, Nixon in China received mostly mixed if not negative press feedback.

* ( 1987 ) Nixon in China

* Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Nixon in China ( 1989 )

" Nixon in China by John Adams ", American Music Vol.

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic by John Adams, Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie, and Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage exemplify the dramatisation on stage of events in recent living memory, where characters portrayed in the opera were alive at the time of the premiere performance.

Composers like John Adams often employ Romantic-size orchestras, as in Adams ' opera Nixon in China ; Philip Glass and others may be more free, yet still identify size-boundaries.

The large, continuously upgraded satellite ground stations, originally installed in 1972 to provide live coverage of the visits to China by U. S. president Richard M. Nixon and Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, still served as the base for China's international satellite communications network in the mid-1980s.

As President, Khan helped to establish the communication channel between the United States and the People's Republic of China, which would be used to set up the Nixon trip in 1972.

* February 21 – February 28 – U. S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong.

McMahon attacked Whitlam over his policy of recognising the People's Republic of China, then had to back down when President Nixon announced his visit to China.

* Chou En-lai, Nixon in China

* ( 1987 ) The Nixon Tapes

** Nixon in China ( opera ), 1987 opera by John Adams

At Hayes's funeral on March 17, 1987, former president Richard Nixon delivered the eulogy before a crowd of 1, 400, acknowledging the friendship that had begun between the two during his second term as vice president.

* Nixon in China, John Adams and Alice Goodman, 1987

* Nixon in China, John Adams and Alice Goodman, 1987

* Nixon in China, John Adams and Alice Goodman, 1987

She was sung by soprano Carolann Page in the 1987 opera Nixon in China.

The Liberals won a landslide majority in the 1987 election, and Nixon was appointed as Deputy Premier on September 29 of that year, also retaining the positions of Treasure, Minister of Economics and Minister of Financial Institutions.

In 1987 Robert Nixon took over, a cartoonist who followed in the steps of noted cartoonist Ken Reid, and her overall look became smoother and fuller.

* Nixon, Peter H. ( 1987 ).

Edgar Daniel Nixon ( July 12, 1899 – February 25, 1987 ) was an African-American civil rights leader and union organizer who played a crucial role in organizing the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.

Edgar Nixon died at age 87 on February 25, 1987.

Nixon's younger brother, Donell Nixon, also played in the Major Leagues from 1987 through 1990 for the Seattle Mariners, the San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles.

* Elvis is Everywhere, by Mojo Nixon ( 1987 )

One such complaint reportedly came from Richard Nixon ( Tom Smothers, ' Geraldo ' Interview, 1987 ).

* Nixon in China -- Choreographer ( Houston Grand Opera, 1987 )

In 2011, The Metropolitan Opera revived its 2007 production of Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris, and premiered John Adams ' Nixon in China, choreographed by Mark Morris in 1987 but never before seen on a New York stage.

From 1981 to 1983, he shared head writing duties with Nixon, and from 1986 to 1987, was co-head writer with Lorraine Broderick.

# Robert Nixon, Liberal ( 1987 – 1991 )

# Another World-Mrs. Franklin ( 1983 ); Alice Nixon ( 1986 ); Clara Hudson ( 1987 – 1989 )

In 1976, 1980 and 1987, Nixon was awarded National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowships.

Nixon is also well known for his work People With AIDS, begun in 1987.