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Richard Nixon: Communist China
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For Aitken, Nixon stood firm for "peace with honor" in his dealings with North Vietnam. This verdict is wholly based on Nixon's refusal to oversee the overthrow of Thieu. Aitken asserts: "This ability to read the minds of Communist leaders was one of Nixon's greatest strengths." But Aitken does not show how Nixon succeeded in reading the minds of the North Vietnamese leaders in 1972- 1973. They were willing to wait a while before cashing in on their agreement with Nixon, knowing full well—as Thieu knew—that the South Vietnamese regime could not survive without major American ground forces.
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Following the Communist victory in China in 1949, Nixon became a persistent critic of the Truman administration's foreign policy. To Nixon the "loss" of China was the result of the Eurocentric focus of Truman's containment policies. This criticism helped to globalize containment in 1950 through the national security policy directive known as NSC #68 and to elect a Republican president in 1952.
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Nixon opened personal relations with Red China. He learned how to use chopsticks and his Chairman Mao impersonation. He ... taught Chinese chicks the hippie peace sign. Some Chinese can still do their Nixon impersonation.
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Nixon's public image never recovered, but he remained as a consultant to later Presidents, and to other people in government and the media. His memoirs were considered important reading. His work in negotiating with China in the early 1970s was praised for improving relations between his country and theirs.
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By 1950 Nixon's career had attracted notice beyond the boundaries of his California constituency, notably for his participation in the Hiss case at a time of national preoccupation with domestic and international Communist movements. On the strength of his two-term record in the House, Nixon sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1950.
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Nixon's trip to China set in motion the eventual recognition of the communist regime as the legitimate government of China, and the de-recognition of the ROC as a member of the Security Council of the United Nations. If Senator Church, President Jimmy Carter, et al. had not deflected the momentum toward a total sell-out of the non-communist residents of Taiwan, a deep stain of total and crass betrayal of loyal allies and innocent ordinary people would have resulted.
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