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Want to restore the planet's ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code ORDINARY9 will get the first month paid for by me: https://planetwild.com/r/ordinarythings/join/9 If you want to get to know them better first, check out their beaver mission: https://planetwild.com/r/ordinarythings/m41/9 Credits: Written, Directed, Edited - Josh Otten Producer - Simon Cade Assistant Producer - Aleks Aditya Sources Below: Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Li, Zhisui. The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician. National Archives and Records Administration. The Watergate Tapes. Nixon, Richard. In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal. Nixon, Richard. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. General Archives and Collections. U.S. Department of Defense / Strategic Air Command. Declassified Documents Concerning Operation Giant Lance. U.S. Department of State. Memoranda of Conversations (Notes taken by Winston Lord). Bass, Gary J. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. Dikötter, Frank. The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962–1976. Gao, Wenqian. Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary. MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao’s Last Revolution. MacMillan, Margaret. Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World. Short, Philip. Mao: A Life. Zheng, Yi. Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China Note: Whenever possible, primary sources and direct historical records were prioritized over secondary historical synthesis. (Mostly because this made the endeavour more fun for me personally). This includes firsthand memoirs from key officials and US government documents, which were mostly sourced from either the Nixon Presidential Library or US Department of State Archives. Obviously when it comes to the Chinese side of the story, using primary material is much harder and less reliable given the CCP’s nature. So there is a heavier reliance on secondary sources for these sections and perhaps an over-reliance on Li Zhisui’s biography/memoir for information about the personal lives of the Chinese Leadership. For more information about the Cultural Revolution, Frank Dikötter’s history is phenomenal and for information about the Guangxi Horrors, the only real source is Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China by Yi Zheng.