... came to rely almost exclusively on three people: H. R. Haldeman, his former campaign manager; John Ehrlichman, Haldeman's best friend, who handled domestic policy; and Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser. As it was said Nixon was a very secluded president at times, a total opposite of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson stated once ... that he and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev would sign a treaty to limit nuclear weapons. The talks leading up to the treaty were called SALT-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. In exchange for the treaty the United States had promised the Soviets better trade d...

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... foreign policy in the Nixon administration. After the war in Vietnam, Nixon announced the Detente Policy. Nixon and the foreign policy aid of Henry Kissinger created and two party system to produce world "equilibrium". The first part the Detente Policy was with Russia, in cooperation with the Soviets ... Policy was to control revolutions and radicals in Third World countries to protect the U.S. interests. SALT talks pursuing the Detente policy with Russia and the U.S. expanded treaty with Russia. In 1972 the "Salt talks" Strategic Arms Limitations talks stated. The negotiations turn out ...

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... . He could be bold yet also cautious, effective yet often inept. Working closely with his national security advisor (later secretary of state), Henry Kissenger, he forsook the anti-Communist policies that he had supported throughout most of his career in favor of Detente with the USSR and ... rapprochement with the Communist government of China. In 1969 he began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union. In February 1972 he made a historic trip to Beijing (Peking)--where he was received by Mao Zedong (Mao ... cease-fire that would last long enough to permit U.S. w...

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