the former diplomat winston lord was pa rt former diplomat winston lord was part of the delegation thatna. today president nixon is visiting china. the great american statesman to have set foot on chinese soil since chairman mao came to power. many of us were a little those appointed in the arrival arrangements. this was a huge political event and we naively thought there would be big crowds. in fact, there were just a few people, but then we recognised again that this was in keeping with the realistic fact that we had been enemies for 22 years and you couldn't turn the page immediately. and so these two great countries, the most powerful knees and on earth, visit the most populous nation on earth. i was special assistant to henry kissinger the national security adviser and i was in charge of orchestrating and putting together the briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was that it was very bleak and depressing. it was early drought. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars, most the bicycles. we arrived at the guesthouse and two hours

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whoell as winston churchill was a minister of armaments or first lord of the admiralty. do you have anything on those relationships? >> i don't have a lot of specifics on that question. let me just talk first more senerally about hoover' interaction with political equals. when he put it that way. did thise actually with a lot of people. he was nervous when he talked to people. he tended to look at the ground. he would move change around in his pocket, he would not look at people and the ivory -- in the eye. the secretary of agriculture did not like him anyway. he referred to hoover as a shifty man. that quality i think in some hurt his interactions with political equals and made it difficult at times. again what is strange about that he is always about pointing up his achievements and focusing on work. he worked incredibly hard. his staff loved and respected him for this hard work. thisnages to overcome social awkwardness. that is what somebody like the closest figure to him and terms of importance for the united states. thene point he was part of railroad administration

i think were particularly about franklin roosevelt and also, winston churchill who i think is the administer of armaments, the first lord of the admiral and maybe george, get anything along those lines? >> i don't have a lot of specifics on that question, let me talk more generally about hoover's interaction with political equals, but put it that way. with a lotdid this of people, he was just nervous when he talked to people, he tended to look at the ground, he jiggled change in his pocket. he would not look people in the eye. -- the secretary of agriculture did not like hoover anyway. shifty,red to hoover as he thought he was shifted because he would not look him in the eye. made somequality that withs interactions political equals difficult at times. what a strange about that is he overcomes that because he just pointed out his achievement and efforts and focused on work, he worked incredible hard. his death loved and respected him because of his hard work. he manages to overcome that kind and even awkwardness someone like maca do, who is probably the closest figure to him in terms of importance in the united states,

winston churchill. he would be screaming this is a valuation of the nation. is this a wealth reduction? lordy that real wages were probably too high in order to sustain full employment and we had to lower the real effective wage to shift resources to the export sector, as a price of which countries abroad would be willing to buy you it.uk -- u.k. exports. francine: if there were to be a hike of the boe would it be a reversal of the cut from last august and with the markets be nuanced enough to understand that? lord king: i think the bank would make clear whether they were unwinding what they introduced last year or beginning a process of going further. i do not know what they will do but when they do it will make quite clear what they are doing. tom: imagine how you stand up and everyone goes to the queen, and it speaks to another time of the empire of the united kingdom . how do you respond to the people who say trade has to look out internationally to take away from the challenges of europe? can the u.k. reinvent global trade? our king: we are looking at current position of the commonwealt