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4 –613 No tangible leadership: Kim, S., p. 255. US diplomat: Roberts, p. 363 (quote is by Graham Martin, US ambassador to Vietnam, 15 Nov. 1973). Mao congratulated Pol Pot: SPK News Agency, p. 15 (from Pol Pot archive). Keo Meas: Kiernan, p. 33. “reacted with childlike delight”: Eisenhower, J., p. 160. “snoring”: Chatichai interview, 5 Mar. 1993. Singapore premier: interviews with Lee Kuan Yew, 16 Jan. 1993, and Rajaratnam, 15 Jan. 1993; cf. Wood, pp. 182–3.

5 Staff often saw tears: interviews with three people closest to him, 22 Oct. 1993, 29 Sept. 1994, & 21 Oct. 2000; Zhang Yufeng 1993, pp. 638–9; Guo Jinrong, p. 103. Imelda Marcos messenger to Nixon: interview with Marcos, 17 Mar. 1994; Chen & Zhao, p. 247. Nixon’s daughter told: Eisenhower J., p. 165 (talk 31 Dec. 1975–1 Jan. 1976). Nixon visit: Anson, pp. 126–33; Ambrose, pp. 491–2; Xiong Xianghui, pp. 276–95; Chen & Zhao, pp. 247–8. Mao selected entertainment: Xiong Xianghui, pp. 287–90; cf. Anson, p. 130.

6 Mourning for entire day: SMMM, pp. 460–2. Farewell poem: Wang Shoujia et al., pp. 17, 871–4; Yue Meiti, pp. 25–6; Xiong Xianghui, pp. 289–90.

7 –615 Melancholy for Haile Selassie: interview with the recipient of Mao’s remark, 21 Oct. 2000. Did not appoint Hua successor, left no will: conversation with Mao’s daughter Li Na, 25 Mar. 1993; interviews with Mao’s last secretary, Zhang Yufeng, 24 Oct. 1995, 14 May 2001; Hua himself explicitly told Geng Biao, in Geng Biao, vol. 2, pp. 288–90; Guo Jinrong, pp. 222–5; Chen & Zhao, p. 261. Hua guinea-pig: Li, Z. p. 624. “blood rains and winds”: Wang Nianyi, pp. 600–1; Fan Shuo,p. 231.

8 –616 Giving orders to wife days before death: Chen & Zhao, pp. 259–60; Guo Jinrong, p. 224. Last thing Mao read: interviews with the barber, 22 Oct. 2000, and with Meng, 29 Sept. 1994; Guo Jinrong, pp. 73–4, 215; Qi Li, p. 143. Last words to Meng: interviews with Meng, 19 Oct. 1993 & 29 Sept. 1994; Guo Jinrong, pp. 224–5. Lucid to the end: stated by all Mao’s personal staff by his deathbed, and shown in the medical record of his last two days, photographed pages at the front of *Lin Ke et al., and pp. 190–2.

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