G12: The Cold War and the Americas: USFP: Nixon

Nixon sought above all to develop a national strategy that would free the United States from the bipolar rigidity of the Cold War.

Vietnam was the great failure, and China the great success, of Nixon's diplomacy

What really interested Nixon was statecraft, the application of American power and diplomatic influence to regional and global problems.

Nixon ran on a platform that opposed the Vietnam war, but to win the election, he needed the war to continue

Crucial to Nixon's plan was the concept of linkage—using the Soviet Union to get the North Vietnamese to negotiate seriously.

U.S. President Richard Nixon went to great lengths to cover up plans to assassinate or topple foreign leaders.

The Week That Changed the World.

Nixon and Brezhnev met more often than any Soviet premier had with a U.S. President to that point.

Between the late 1960s and the late 1970s, there was a thawing of the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union

Summary analyzing Kissinger's/Nixon's foreign policy. Includes large selection of primary source documents.

Questioning the decision-making process that had led to such deep US involvement in Vietnam, McNamara initiated a comprehensive analysis of policy in the region. So began the creation of what would come to be called the "Pentagon Papers."

The Nixon administration marked the end of America's long period of post-World War II prosperity and the onset of a period of high inflation and unemployment-"stagflation."

If there was a single animating principle behind Nixon’s good-government reform efforts, it was this: lessen the power of the federal bureaucracy.

Nixon refused to follow the Eisenhower pattern of consolidating Democratic programs and attempting to run them more efficiently.