“When we think of where Iran is, its place in history, going back 2,500 years, its place geographically, where it is the bridge between Europe and Asia, where it is the opening ot the Indian Ocean and South Asia, and also to the Mideast, when we thinkg also of the...
The U.S. role in international development assistance reflects the vision we have of ourselves as a society and our hope for a peaceful world. —President Nixon, Special Message to Congress On September 15, 1970, President Nixon delivered a special message to the...
Nixon’s Approach to China Policy Needs Consideration From Current Policymakers International attitudes towards North Korea’s fifth nuclear test have revealed a deepening discord between the United States and China. While Asian leaders have urged that stronger...
Amidst the preparations for President Nixon’s upcoming visit to Moscow, another American cultural icon toured the Soviet Union in the fall of 1971. Traveling to five different Soviet cities in a month’s time, Jazz legend Duke Ellington put on twenty-two performances...
With the number of nuclear weapon states steadily rising, and tensions between the Cold War superpowers continuing to intensify, world leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain recognized that “the proliferation of nuclear weapons would seriously enhance the danger of...
Jussi Hanhimäki is Author of “The Rise and Fall of Detente: American Foreign Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War.” Last week, the Nixon Foundation spoke with historian Jussi Hanhimaki on the subject of Detente with the Soviet Union during the...
