watergate
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- Nixon and his Assistant for National Security Affairs, Kissinger were like two peas in a pod.
- They worked together on various foreign policy issues and would become known as...
- "NIXINGER"
- Nixon's presidency started as a success, becoming the first president to visit Communist China!
- me too!
- Mao Zedong
- His visit was monumental!
- I hope we can be diplomatic.
- His visit to China led to detente with the USSR, making him the first U.S. president to visit Moscow and meet with Premier Leonid Brezhnev.
- I'm so excited about the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty we signed. This marks a new era in U.S. - Soviet relations!
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Nixon also began to withdraw troops from Vietnam, which was very popular among the people!
- At the same time, he authorized bombings over Cambodia which would become one of his most controversial foreign policy decisions.
- I am pleased to announce the U.S. has officially ended ground involvement in Vietnam upon signing the Paris Peace Accords!
- He ended the participation of the U.S. in Vietnam on January 23, 1973
- After Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, Nixon requested $2.2 billion in emergency aid for Israel
- OAPEC is imposing an oil embargo on the U.S.
- Yet Nixon was met with...
- An EMBARGO
- Gas prices soared as the U.S. realized just how dependent it was on OAPEC oil.
- I can't afford gas! How am I supposed to get to work?!
- With the help of Kissinger’s “shuttle diplomacy” the embargo was lifted in March 1974.
- But his legacy regarding the Vietnam War, China, Russia, and the Yom Kippur War lives on today.
- Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 before he could finish his final term in office.
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