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In this episode, we cover two of President Nixon's major accomplishments; giving 18 year old citizens the right to vote and initiating the opening to China. 

First, we listen as Richard Nixon signs the 26th Amendment into law in front of a White House full of young people. 

Then we listen in on a call between Henry Kissinger and President Nixon on a wide range of subjects involving South East Asia and the end game of the negotiations with China. We get to listen to a retrospective on the secret trip to China made by Henry Kissinger in July of 1971.  It was there that the invitation was finally extended by the Chinese for President Nixon to travel to China. It would be an announcement that would shake the world. 

We then listen to the national address by President Nixon announcing the breakthrough and plans for the trip. 

Finally, we look at the United States relationship with Asia's other great power, the Empire of Japan. Still reeling from the defeat of World War 2, Japan was finally beginning its emergence and in this final event of the episode we listen to the first official visit by a Japanese Monarch to the United States as Emperor Hirohito visits Anchorage, Alaska and is greeted by President Richard Nixon, himself a veteran of the Pacific theater of World War 2. 

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