Nixon

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Richard Nixon’s Influence Upon Foreign Policy
Foreign policy is the principle and activities that constitute the role of the United States in relation to the rest of the world. Foreign policy includes international matters, like participation in NATO, trade agreements, and maintaining peaceful relations with other countries. The primary goal of Foreign policy is National security because it holds the security of the United States, its citizens and their property. With Foreign policy the United States is able to keep international security and give economic aid to other countries. The head of Foreign policy is the President of the United States. The President has the power, granted by the Constitution, to be the commander in chief of all United States forces. He can enact treaties and meet with foreign leaders. Of our many presidents, Richard Milhous Nixon was considered to be an expert on Foreign policy. ( )
Nixon, our 37th president, was born in 1913 in Yorba Linda, California. He attended Duke University where he received a degree in Law. He served as a Congressman and Senator for his California district. Two years later in 1952, General Eisenhower chose Nixon, to be his running mate. As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Much of his term was spent on trips abroad as a goodwill ambassador meeting with foreign leaders to discuss world problems, representing the President to Congress, and to help mend ties between opposing countries. He was also a target for anti-American protestors. One of Nixon’s most memorable trips was to the USSR, to help open a United States exhibition in Moscow. Escorted by Nixon, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was taken through a model of an American kitchen. While walking through the kitchen both men began to discuss the relative merits of the United States and systems of Communism. This discussion would later on be noted as the “Kitchen Debate.” ( )
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