9. Talk about how you found out about the final ok you received from China.
Henry Kissinger: We received this communication and I think I brought to him in the Lincoln sitting room if I remember correctly. And we never knew exactly when one of these communications was going to come. And I, I did tell him that I thought this was a diplomatic revolution and maybe I used the phrase it's the most important communication since World War Two. And he opened a bottle of Courvoisier and we had a drink on that. But we recognized - I mean we realized that this might break the back of the Vietnam war and certainly would change the nature of our relationship with the Soviet Union. Assuming they weren't playing games, but we never thought that it was likely or even conceivable that they would drag the President's top aide to Beijing to humiliate me.
