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Ever-since the communist Revolution in china in 1949, U.S. leaders had refused to establish dipromatic relations with the Communist gorvernment.

Nixon, however, wanted to create a more flexible situaton in Asia in order to put more pressure on north Vietnam.

He surprised the world by restoring dipromatic relations with communist china. In 1972, Nixon become the first American president to visit mainland china.

Reopening relations with China was Nixon's greatest foreign policy achievement.

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Nixon's Changes to America & the Government

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Nixon's Changes to America & the Government

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Nixon gave federal funds to state and local governments so that they could spend it however they wanted. he wanted to put an end to the draft and create strong anticrime laws ,and had promised to appoint the supreme court with a conservative philosophy.

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the first amendement was that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied by the united states " Why didn't the law get passed ? the law did not get passed because she thought that the amendment would lead to unisex restrooms and require women to serve in combat roles

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during 1972 s group of CIA agents were caught breaking into Democratic Party headquarters

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President Nixon tried to cover up the investigation of the Watergate by appointing a committe investigation and special prosecutor to examine the case

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President Nixon secretly recorded all of his own White House conversations. When senate committee tried to listen Nixon refused claiming "executive privilage

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When the tapes were made public it revealed nixion in fact lied making the house of representatives tp impeach him so he resigned making his the first president to do so

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President nixon beleaved  in pursuing a policy of Detente_ a relaxing of tension.
Nixon introduced the policy of detente to relations with the soviet Union. Nixon and kissinger.

especilly wanted to halt the build-up of nuclear weapons. In 1972, Nixon became the first president to visit moscow, where he signed an agreement (SALT) with Soviet  leaders , limiting the devel opment of defensive missile systems.

Nixon further agreed to sell American grain to the soviet Union to help them cope with food shortages.
In 1973, When war broke out in the middle East, the United States and soviet Union further cooperated in pressuring Israel and the arab state to conclude a cease-fire.