尼克松总统接见演员时说：“过去一座敌意的长城把中华人民共和国的八亿人民和美利坚合众国的两亿人民隔绝了20 年，这是这个世纪的一个悲剧。作为我有幸地同毛主席和周恩来总理会见的结果，这座敌意的城墙正在坍塌?！?br>When meeting with the troupe, US President Richard Nixon said, "It is a tragedy of this century that for 20 years a great wall of hostility has separated the 800 million people of the People's Republic of China and the 200 million people of the United States of America. As a result of the meetings that I was privileged to have with Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai in Peking early in 1972, that wall of hostility is now coming down."
