Despite my staunch personal disagreement against Detente Policy with PRC & Soviet Union of the Nixon & Ford administrations including Kissinger's accomplishments in this effort, I believe it was SMOOTH GENIUS at the time.
I was thinking the same thing: Ding-Dong BABY.
Somewhere the family of the late Chilean President Salvador Allende are toasting champagne & partying all night long with the song 'All Night Long'.