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President Nixon, after his successful visit to communist nation China, quickly moved on to visiting the Soviet Unions capital of Moscow (being the first American president to do so) with China on his side. After a series of meetings named the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Nixon and Brezhnev, Soviet Unions premier, signed the SALT I Treaty. Which was a five year agreement that limited the number of of intercontiential ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles to 1972 levels.

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With Nixon and Kissinger both agreeing on the realpolitik policy, they formed their own policy called detente, which was aimed at easing cold war tensions. This policy was first enacted when in 1972, President Nixon, a strong anti-communist, visited communist China. Nixon announced in 1971 he would visit China "to seek the normalization of relations between the two countries." In visiting China, Nixon both was trying to take advantage of the decade long rift between China and the Soviet union breaking ties in 1960, and also successfully opening up diplomatic and economic relations with the Chinese.

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Nixon preferred foreign policy over domestic policy. His reasoning by this was saying "I've always thought this country could run itself domestically without a president," Nixon elected his adviser for national security affairs, Henry Kissinger, who played an important role in the foreign policies during Nixon's time. A major thing that Nixon agreed on and carried out was Kissinger introducing the philosophy known as realpolitik, which is from a German term meaning "political realism" This policy meant foreign policy should be based solely on consideration of power, not ideals or moral principles. To evaluate the nation's power, not it's philosophy or beliefs. This policy lead to the president's visits to other nations regarding foreign policy.

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In the 1968, Richard Nixon is elected into presidency and is sworn in in january of 1969. A big part of why Nixon took the lead in the election was how he spoke out mainly of his foreign policy; ending the war in Vietnam.