’)While President Obama comes under fire for bowing to Japan’s Emperor Akihito, conservatives are ignoring the history of American presidents showing deference to, in come cases, questionable world leaders.
Richard Nixon embraced Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Nixon had a romantic moment staring into the eyes of Chairman Mao.
President Eisenhower bowed before French President Charles DeGaulle.
And Ronald Reagan went to Bitburg where 49 SS soldiers were buried, so as not to offend West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
