Sep 15, 2017 | Artifacts, China, Foreign Policy, Nixon Today
An American tennis table player trains with a Chinese tennis table player, in April, 1971 in Beijing, China. (AFP/Getty Images) By Charlie Cauffman On April 5, 1971, the People’s Republic of China invited the United States table-tennis team to play their national team...
Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
President Nixon with Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin, June 1974. Nixon Presidential Library. By Jason Schwartz A hotbed of Cold War tension, the Middle East endured as a centrum of contrasting pressures throughout the Nixon presidency. Following the Six-Day War...
Sep 8, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy
Meeting in the Oval Office between Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi. 31 October 1973. Richard Nixon Presidential Library. By Matthew-Ryan Brazas Recently, President Trump has offered to serve as a mediator between Arab states in the...
Aug 23, 2017 | Artifacts, Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
Photo: President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on October 1, 1972 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library) On 15 April 1969, an American EC-121M Warning Star Naval reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over the Sea of Japan by a North Korean fighter...
Aug 7, 2017 | China, Foreign Policy, News, Russia, Soviet Union
The United States, China and Russia: Relations Between the World’s Great Powers in the Age of Trump July 27, 2017 Richard Nixon Presidential Library Program Synopsis • Program Transcript • Video Key Quotations “China remains enormously dependent on the United States...
Aug 7, 2017 | China, Foreign Policy, Nixon TV, Russia, Soviet Union, Uncategorized
Dr. Henry Kissinger said that President Nixon “created a set of international policies whose main outlines survive to this day.” One of the most important is triangulation; by improving relations with China, the U.S. carved out favorable negotiating positions with the...
