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It marked the re-opening of U.S. relations with China. No sitting US President had ever visited China. Herbert Hoover had lived there as a young mining engineer, along with his wife, during the time of the Boxer Rebellion (1900). "No president had visited there since the Communist government took power" is not the correct answer, but appears on trivia quiz sites.

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