Jul 1, 2016 | Foreign Policy
In his first address on foreign policy two months ago, presidential candidate Donald Trump explained that one of the key strategies missing in United States foreign policy was unpredictability. If elected President, Trump charged, it would serve for him and the nation...
Jun 28, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Soviet Union, Vietnam
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States In May 1972, President Nixon faced one of the great foreign policy...
Apr 30, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Nixon Speeches
On the evening of April 30, 1970, President Nixon announced that the United States was going to attack North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries which were threatening allies from the Vietnamese-Cambodian border:Tonight, American and South Vietnamese units will attack...
Jan 26, 2016 | Foreign Policy, News, Vietnam
“Just as secret negotiations can sometimes break a public deadlock, public disclosure may help to break a secret deadlock.” — President Nixon For much of President Nixon’s first term, the secret diplomatic meetings between chief North Vietnamese...
