In the big gold and white East Room of the White House last week, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi brushstroked his signature to the new treaty with the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 25). Just a century ago, in this same room, President James Buchanan received the first diplomatic delegation to leave Japan in modern times, which was why President Eisenhower, to the surprise of the Japanese, presented Kishi with a commemorative medal bearing the face of President Buchanan, one of the U.S.'s least-remembered Presidents.
More conspicuous in the minds of most men assembled in...
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