As Julie posed for a Chinese news crew next to a crate marked "giant panda" — one of two sent by the People's Republic after the Nixons' historic state visit — he said, "One of life's great pleasures has been watching her become Pat Nixon".
In late February, a three-and-a-half-year-old cub clambered into a crate marked "Contents one panda" to begin a sixteen-hour, one-way flight to China.
However, Pandas marked a significant strategy shift that was necessitated by the creationists' second defeat in the 1987 Edwards ruling.
We stood behind a painted yellow line, which marked the distance an adult panda can reach with a paw, and watched while Tian Tian came up to the fence to receive various treats.
The sea turtle, named Big Head, swam toward a goal marked with the Brazilian flag, while Ying Mei the panda scarfed down food from a box marked with the Brazilian flag over one with the Croatian flag, BBC News reports.
The ban marked a hiatus in a fitful, unpredictable trickle of pandas to the West.
This summer the mainland presented a pair of pandas to Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of the handover from British rule.
A giant panda, one of a pair presented by China four years ago to mark a warming of ties with Taiwan, has given birth to a female cub at a Taipei zoo.
The giant pandas had been due to be transferred next week to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The pair of seven-year-old pandas, Tian Tian and Yangguang, will arrive at Edinburgh zoo this year, marking "the culmination of five years of political and diplomatic negotiation at the highest level" according to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
