World Leaders

in Library & Foundation by Nixon Foundation — May 9, 2010 at 11:41 pm | 0 comments

This exhibit featured life-sized, paper machete statues of ten world leaders chosen by President Nixon himself as those who shaped the world during his lifetime and, in his words, “made a difference.” They are as follows:

Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En-lai, China
Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Union
Anwar el-Sadat, Egypt
Golda Meir, Israel
Winston Churchill, Great Britain
Konrad Adenauer, West Germany
Shigeru Yoshida, Japan
Charles deGaulle, France

Presented in glass cases alongside the figures are priceless gifts given to President and Mrs. Nixon by heads of state and government while in the White House. Gifts include an ivory elephant tusk from William Tolbert, the Vice President of Liberia in 1969; a necklace, earrings, ring, brooch, and bracelet made of emeralds and diamonds from Fahd bin Abd Al-Aziz, the Prince of Saudi Arabia in 1969; a statue of the goddess Isis in gilded bronze, dating from the 6^th century BC, from Anwar el-Sadat, President of Egypt in 1974; silver and gold peacock statues by Garrard which symbolize longevity, from the Right Honorable Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1970; and a fossilized and opalized snail shell from the Right Honorable John Grey Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia in 1969.

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