Richard Nixon Achievements as a U.S. President

Richard M. Nixon was the thirty-seventh American President whose administration started functioning in January1969 and concluded in August 1974 in an abrupt manner following the Watergate scandal. Despite the consequences brought by the scandal, Nixon's presidential terms can be remembered in good words considering the fact that they brought the nation success on many fronts (Collins, 2000).

The President is most positively remembered in the foreign policy arena. In addition to this, Nixon demonstrated his character as a bold president when he successfully negotiated with the Soviet Union and Maoist China, thus producing persistent revolution in East-West relations (Collins, 2000). His summit meetings with USSR leader Leonid I. Brezhnev formed an agreement to restrict intentional nuclear weapons. He also declared an accord with North Vietnam after which American involvement in Indochina ended. Disengagement agreements were also negotiated in 1974 between Israel, Egypt and...
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