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Richard Nixon: Soviet Union
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In 1971 Nixon made the dramatic announcements that he would visit Peking and Moscow in the first half of 1972. He ... announced progress in the negotiations with the Soviet Union on an arms limitation treaty. The visit to Peking took place in February and he was invited to meet Chairman Mao Zedong, a mark of high respect. In May, he visited Moscow and signed the agreement limiting the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Nixon’s most dramatic confrontation abroad took place when he visited the USSR in July 1959 to open a U.S. exhibition in Moscow. Nixon escorted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev through a model U.S. kitchen. In front of the television cameras, Khrushchev then found himself in a debate with Nixon over the relative merits of the United States and Communist systems. Parts of what became known as the “kitchen debate” were later broadcast on television in both the USSR and the United States. On the final day of his visit, Nixon made an unprecedented address on Soviet television.
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The centerpiece of Nixon's international strategy was to manage the Soviet threat by inducing Moscow to moderate its behavior in the world arena. To achieve this, he endeavored to engage the Soviet Union in a web of relations that would furnish Moscow with incentives to seek accommodation with the United States. Vital to this were the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which in 1972 resulted in an agreement to limit the deployment of strategic offensive missiles and antiballistic missile systems. Although the interim agreement on ballistic missiles arguably was flawed, the SALT Treaties paved the way for subsequent superpower nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements.
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During his eight years as vice president, Nixon visited sixty countries. He faced violent protesters during a visit to south American in nineteen-fifty-eight. He was praised for acting bravely under dangerous conditions. A year later, he visited the Soviet Union. He and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had a famous debate about world peace. Nixon became very angry.
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Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who ... had served Nixon, sought to continue the containment of communist power while managing tensions with the Soviet Union through the Nixon-era policy of d�tente. Even though these policies initially were popular, they grew controversial as members of both political parties increasingly diverged from the old consensus Ford represented.
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The party rebuffed him and Nixon was not only re-nominated but ... re-elected. During Eisenhower's second term, Nixon traveled around the world representing the United States. In July 1959, at an exhibit showcasing a General Electric model kitchen, at the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Moscow, he was joined by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, with whom he had a widely reported "kitchen debate" about the merits of their respective political regimes. The perception that Nixon was someone who could "stand up" to the Soviets enhanced his status as an experienced and effective statesman.
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