THE RISE OF RICHARD MILLHOUSE NIXON

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THE RISE OF RICHARD MILLHOUSE NIXON CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE

THE ELECTION OF 1968 New Republicans: Sunbelt, SW, S. Cal., FL & Silent Majority DEMOCRATS DIVIDE McCarthy, Humphrey, RFK RICHARD NIXON-SPIRO AGNEW “End the war win the peace” HAD BECOME SUCCESSFUL EARLY ON WITH HUAC WORK; HOUSEHOLD NAME GEORGE WALLACE-INDEPENDENT Law & Order Campaign 391 RMN – 191 HH – 46 GW

NIXON’S FOREIGN POLICY REALPOLITIK VIETNAMIZATION REPLACE US W/ SV TROOPS DIRECT NEGOTIATION WITH N. V. INCREASE AIR STRIKES APRIL 1970 CAMBODIAN INCURSION 1971 SV INVADES LAOS 1972 CHRISTMAS BOMBING JANUARY 1973 PARIS PEACE ACCORDS: TOOK A YEAR TO DETERMINE SHAPE OF TABLE

DÉTENTE, RELAXATION OF TENSIONS WITH CHINA & RUSSIA HENRY KISSINGER COLD WAR: POWER RIVALRY TO BE MANAGED NOT WON IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH CHINA :2/72 BEIJING, PING PONG DIPLOMACY 1979: FULL DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION

THAW IN THE COLD WAR 5/72 MOSCOW TRIP; DIDN’T END ARMS RACE SALT I: NUCLEAR EQUALITY NOT SUPERIORITY ABM TREATY: restrict deployment of our nationwide missile defense system THAW ENDS WITH INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN 1980’S

SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 6 DAYS WAR 1967 YOM KIPPUR WAR 1973 OIL EMBARGO KISSINGER BROKERS TRUCE: cease fire, Israel cede some territory, end embargo Palestinian issue unresolved

US AID TO SUPPORT ANTI-COMMUNISTS NO MATTER TYPE OF GOVERNMENT – NIXON DOCTRINE IRAN- TO COUNTER SOVIET INFLUENCE SOUTH AFRICA-SUPPORTED APARTHEID PHILIPPINES-SUPPORT FOR MARCOS BUT FILIPINO’S DIDN’T CHILE – FEARED ANOTHER CUBA, COVERT OPS TO GET ALLENDE TO RESIGN