Richard Nixon's 'Crazy' Idea

Podcast: Face-Off · Airwave Media

Opublikowano: 2025-08-06

With money, power and political standing at stake, America’s relationship with China is tenuous. But it wasn’t always that way. The Great Wager is a five-part series that tells the story of the extraordinary encounter between Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong in 1972 that brought these two countries together, the secret collaborations born from that meeting — and the reverberations we’re still feeling today. We’re thrilled to be re-airing this series this summer, while we’re busily preparing season 3 of Face Off behind the scenes. This is episode 1. President Richard Nixon has a plan: He want...