Word: soviet
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...time, and yet he was also the only man in U.S. history ever to be elected twice as Vice President and twice as President. In the White House, he achieved many major goals: the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, restored relations with China, the first major arms agreement with the Soviet Union and much more. But he will always be remembered, as he was at his death last week at 81, as the chief perpetrator -- and chief victim -- of the Watergate scandal, the only President ever to resign in disgrace...
...agreement between the two states. On the domestic front, he introduced proposals for welfare reform and universal health care, issues which are still being debated 20 years later. And after he left office Nixon was an ardent advocate of peace who encouraged the development and integration of the former Soviet republics into world politics and economics...
...staff notes only cursorily, we owe Richard Nixon the detente of the '70s, which made the world a safer place in which to live and paved the way for a series of arms-reduction treaties between the United States and the former Soviet Union. We owe him relations with China, along with associated economic benefits to both nations and the increased leverage America now wields with China. Finally, we owe Nixon credit for opening the doors to the Camp David accords of 1979, which created peace between Israel and Egypt...
Nixon's policy of detente with the Soviet Union led to a focus on arms control and human rights, which bore full fruit in the SALT treaty and the Helsinki accords signed under President Gerald R. Ford. Nixon's skilful diplomacy prevented the occupation of the Mideast by Soviet troops...
BOOK EXCERPT: A Soviet Spymaster's Story...