HIST2475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Lyndon B. Johnson, Perjury, Pointless
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When eisenhower had a heart attack, nixon was essentially serving as. When he was elected president in 1968, he brought a more sophisticated important in obstructing victory in vietnam form of cold war diplomacy. People tend to extend the caricature of nixon throughout the duration of his career but he was not always like this. He could be a dynamic speaker and a political genius. March 1965-november 1968 were home front factors or battlefield factors more. Nixon"s life was a collection of crises. Dauntingly pursued alger hiss for hiss" conviction for perjury. Alger hiss case demonized him he may have been politically motivated but (cid:498)triangular(cid:499) diplomacy exploits the sino-soviet split free the u. s. He viewed vietnam in terms of what was politically expedient he never saw. Henry kissinger: nixon"s national security advisor then his secretary of. Pragmatic, hard-headed calculus to the craft of diplomacy a major for moral reasons or for international law foreign policy is for your nation"s improvement.
