7/18/2022

The limousine stopped at The Dragon Palace. Richard Nixon got out. Guards of the Heroic People’s Volunteer Army stood at attention. On a wall inside the courtyard four tall posters caught the eye of Richard Nixon.

— That’s Marx, he said, pointing.

— Marx, repeated Marshal Yeh.

— And that’s Engels.

— Engels.

— And that’s Lenin and that’s Stalin.

— Precisely, Marshal Yeh replied.

Richard Nixon went back to the second poster, pointing to it with his gloved hand.

— That’s Engels?

— Engels, Marshal Yeh said with a worried, excessively polite look in his eyes.

— We don’t see many pictures of Engels in America, Richard Nixon explained. (The Richard Nixon Freischütz Rag)