evidence: She would retain her concern for people even as she traveled abroad. During her tenure as First Lady, Pat Nixon logged more international miles than even the globe-trotting Eleanor Roosevelt. On a trip with the President to Guam, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Pakistan, England, and South Vietnam, Pat toured a training center for the mentally retarded and entered the combat zone in Vietnam, where she toured an orphanage, and visited a military hospital where she talked with American soldiers. Pat seemed to be a hit wherever she went. She accompanied the President to the Soviet Union, and while Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev hammered out detente, Pat Nixon toured the U.S.S.R. arm-in-arm with Victoria Brezhnev. In China, she donned a red coat and charmed foreign minister Chou En-lai, who expressed his appreciation by giving her two rare giant pandas as a personal gift. She became the first First Lady to travel to Africa, doing so without her husband. Wearing native dress and making no racial distinction between those she greeted and those with whom she was photographed, Pat earned the respect and admiration of thousands.