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Current Exhibitions

Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman
Just in time for the Presidential campaign, political cartoons from the first half of the 20th century provide relevant commentary and fascinating insight into the campaigns and elections of today. In the Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery, through August 17.

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News & Events

July 15

early closing

The Rotunda and the National Archives Experience in Washington, DC, will close early on Tuesday, July 15, at 4:30 p.m. Last admission is at 4:00 p.m.

August 6

President Nixon meets with China's Communist Party Leader, Mao Tse- Tung, 02/29/1972, ARC Identifier: 194759

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

History Declassified: Nixon in China
The Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film at the National Archives presents this 2004 ABC News Productions documentary that tells the unknown story behind one of the greatest diplomatic coups in history–President Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China in February of 1972.

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