... peace talks stalled repeatedly. Covert dialogue between Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam dragged on with little progress. At home anti-war activist filled the streets. Nixon hoped that improved relations with the Chinese and the Soviets would spur a quick exit from Vietnam the summits did little to push the war towards its end. The U.S. entered the talks in 1969 seeking mutual withdrawal and no coalition government [ ] before the first secret meeting with the North, Kissinger met U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge ... have abandoned our prisoners of war, or that would of ended the war f...

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... ended. He himself told reporters the next day, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." In the next few years he worked as a partner in a New York law firm and traveled the country and the world. The nomination and overwhelming defeat of Sen. Barry GOLDWATER as the Republican presidential candidate in 1964 encouraged Nixon to try again for the presidency in 1968. He obtained the nomination on the ... (Mao Tse-tung)--thus reversing the U.S. policy of not recognizing the Communist government. In 1973, after four years of waging w...

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... of his career is put on the Watergate scandal. While he was in office Nixon worked with China and the Soviet Union to increase stability and decrease tensions between the "super powers". He held summit meetings with the Soviets which yielded a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. He ended United States involvement in Indochina. In 1974 he had Henry Kissinger, ... Vietnam with the ability to defend it self. Meanwhile criticism from the anti-war movement and the media was increasingly growing with such things as the Cambodian incursion in 1970 and the bombing of North Vietnam in May ...

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