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The united states re-opened relations with communist china in 1972. Nixon's greatest foreign achievement was reopening relations with china.

Detente was a relaxing of tensions.
it was introduced with the soviet union. nixon wanted to halt development of nuclear weapons

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President Nixion hired former CIA agents to sneak into the offices of the democratic party in Watergate.
President Nixon tried to cover up the break in but the senate appointed a committee to investigate the incident
It is rumored that the president recorded all of his conversations in the white house

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Tapes that proved Nixon was guilty were made public. House of Representatives decided to impeach Nixon so he decided to just resign.

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Nixon believed federal social programs were not capable to solve the issues going on, the issues going on could have been solved better at the local level. Supreme court continued to protect first amendment rights