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Chinese poems quotoed by American Presidents Obama: (Town Hall) Chinese proverb：Consider the past you shall know the future. Nixon Chairman has written: So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently; the world rolls on, time presses. Ten thousand years are too long; seize the day, seize the hour！ This is the hour. This is the day for our two people (现在就是我们两国人民只争朝夕的时候了) Cliton (1998) in Xi’an City Let us give new meaning to the words written in the ancient Book of Rites, what you call the Li Shi: When the great way is followed, all under heaven will be equal(让我们给《礼记》这本历史古书的文字赋予新的意义：当大家走伟大的道路时，世界所有的人都将是平等的)。 Reagan: Many centuries ago, Wang Po, a famous Chinese poet-philosopher, wrote, Although we reside in far corners of the world, having a good friend is akin to having a good neighbor. Senior Bush (1989) Theres a Chinese proverb that says: One generation plants a tree; the next sits in its shade. ：… where we relished the history of the Three Kingdoms and could almost hear the poet Li Bos description of the monkeys who screamed from the two sides without stopping. Junior Bush: (2005) Thousands of years before Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln, a Chinese poet wrote that, “the people should be cherished, the people are the root of a country；the root firm, the country is tranquil.” (在托马斯·杰斐逊或亚伯拉罕·林肯诞生的几千年前，就有一位中国诗人写道：“人民应该被珍视，人民是国家的根基。根基牢固，国家就安宁)。这句话出自《尚书·夏书》中的“五子之歌”，原文是“民可近，不可下。民惟邦本，本固邦宁”。 Obama: Thousands of years ago, the great philosopher Mencius said：A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time.’ (山径之蹊间，介然用之而成路；为间不用，则茅塞之矣。今茅塞子之心矣 —《孟子·尽心下》)。 2.2.4 President and Scandal To defeat his adversary, Nixon hired five burglars to set up wiretaps to get confidential information in the Democratic National Committee offices; It was exposed and became the biggest political scandal in the history of America; Because of the