coming up next, former ambassador, nicholas platt, who traveled to china with nixon, discusses how americans viewed china in the 1960s and '70s and reflects on the politics of nixon's visit to china. this program is about 40 minutes. >> well, that was a wonderful hour, mike. it really is a nice piece of historiful. let me start with you, max. and then next to you, mike. you suggested that there was kind of a real manipulation of this whole sort of epic journey. but what was the narrative you didn't get? i mean, if nixon hadn't been trying to make a giant campaign commercial out of this, what was it you would have gotten? >> oh, well, i spent about a week before we went at the cia and got myself briefed on who's who in china and what's going on in china. i had a longstanding relationship with kissinger after his secret trip. he was quite ready to boast about many of the things that happened. i had my head full and my notes full of the diplomacy of the issue, the taiwan issue and so on. plenty to write about during this meeting. it was not hard to speculate about what was really goingon behind