Jul 8, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News
When historians discuss U.S.-Soviet relations, they tend to place a special emphasis on the personal relationships formed between the leaders of the two superpowers. The common examples include FDR and Stalin, Reagan and Gorbachev – but what was the relationship like...
May 13, 2010 | Foreign Policy, News
As a youngster in Yorba Linda, Richard Nixon would lie awake at night in the small attic bedroom he shared with his brothers. He would listen to the whistles of passing trains and imagine the places they would visit. It is only one of many paradoxes in RN’s career...
May 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
When considering why Richard Nixon was the President who decided to extend the hand of friendship to the People’s Republic of China, after more than twenty years of hostile relations between that country and the United States, it is important to remember that he...
Apr 8, 2010 | China, Foreign Policy, News
On February 27, 1972, the United States and China put together the joint U.S-China communiqué, the conclusion of Nixon and Kissinger’s astonishing weeklong visit to the People’s Republic. Kissinger had begun to outline the Shanghai Communiqué with Chou En-lai around...
Jan 1, 1985 | Foreign Policy, Nixon Today, Nixon TV
[youtube https://youtu.be/7RDt9EghQFw] Ted Koppel, anchor of Nightline, interviews Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew and former President Richard Nixon. The two discuss contemporary foreign policy issues and the growth of Southeast Asia following the Vietnam...
