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Obama Can Do a ‘Nixon Goes to China’ on Jobs

By Morton M. Kondracke
Roll Call Executive Editor
July 22, 2010, Midnight

The economy is weak and the public is angry. What should President Barack Obama do? He could do what Richard Nixon did: Go to China. I don’t mean take a trip to Beijing. I mean do something unexpected and out of political character.

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