President Richard Nixon’s trip to China in 1972 was “the week that changed the world,” according to Ambassador Nicholas Platt, who accompanied the President on the historic delegation, at an event ...

Richard Nixon served during a troubled time in America ... He engaged communist China, brokered detente with the Soviet Union and pulled American combat troops out of South Vietnam.

Or that it is in the mature Nixon, who made landmark overtures to his onetime foes, the Soviet Union and the country then known as Red China. “I had friends who had refused to work for Richard ...

Richard Milhous Nixon, Law School ‘37 ... The Duke alumnus’s historic trip to China in 1972 redefined U.S. foreign policy and opened diplomatic relations between the two nations.

In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the war in Vietnam and the cold war, this encounter marked a turning point in Chinese ...

Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger saw that South Vietnam ... In April 1972, between Nixon’s historic visits to China and to the Soviet Union, the North Vietnamese made their supreme play and ...

One of Richard M. Nixon’s greatest achievements was improving U.S. relations with China and the Soviet Union. With Henry Kissinger, he negotiated Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) in 1972 to ...

Besides the landing on the moon by the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Richard Nixons meeting with ... one of the biggest media spectacles in history Nixon himself established the reference between ...