In the Middle East and Africa the Cold War was waged by proxies of the ... and U.S. president Richard Nixon, who was worried about the possibility of nuclear war and preoccupied by the Vietnam ...
Ever since the Cold War’s effective end in 1989 ... be better off today had America’s 1990s-era leadership taken Richard Nixon’s advice to stick to our principles and a realist path ...
For 22 years, Richard Nixon had ... The cold calculus of human lives dictated that a great man should let thousands die so that billions may live without fear of nuclear war.
Most accounts of the collapse of Richard Nixon’s presidency begin ... And concerning the war, how did Nixon, with all his foreign policy savvy, allow himself to get trapped in the same quagmire ...
In his campaign speeches last fall, Richard Nixon pledged ... at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection was a signal that Nixon was committed to a tough ...
Nixon told the Senator that he wants to “virtually eliminate” American involvement in Viet Nam by 1972. To meet this goal, he will pull out “nearly all” of the ground combat troops before ...
In 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of appliances, Vice President Richard ... years of the Cold War, the traditional ...
particularly those of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, who often overlooked human rights abuses in favor of Cold War alliances. Historians such as David Schmitz and Vanessa Walker argue in their ...