President Richard Nixon's The Watergate Scandal

President Richard Nixon became the President of the United States of American in 1969, during one of the bleakest foreign policy crisis ever in History. President Nixon is remembered for The Watergate Scandal but he did succeed in doing many great things for the United States while he was in office. The Vietnam was going on and the American people were split as to for or against our troops being in Vietnam. The Cold War was at its highest point, President Nixon knew he need to help change America’s foreign policy. He also knew he had to bring America back to the” silent majority” (mindtap, Nixon’s the One, 13.2) which he viewed as the hard working, tax paying Americans. He vowed during his campaign to bring “piece with honor” to the war
He would us the détente to get the Soviet Union to pressure the North Vietnamese and entering major military pressure. (Questa, Nixon in the world, pg. 186). He would hold out on the arms deal to achieve this if he felt necessary.
President Nixon believed in the basics of welfare state, Social Security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, health care for the elderly and unions. Nixon being a Republican did support the democrats to increase food stamps and the cost of living adjustments even though he believed the America people were tired of the government wasting money on some of these programs and demonstrations. Unfortunately Nixon failed to reduce welfare but many Politian’s already knew this program had many flaws.
The Nixon administration also tried to get more jobs for minorities and women by requiring business that had government projects to hire minorities and women. This program was called the Philladelphia Plan. This program would help get minority and women jobs and off welfare. Nixon’s administration also stopped the use of DDT and stopped making biological and chemical weapons. He supported the (EPA) Environmental Protection Agency and in fact helped pass the emission requirements for automobiles to clean up the air. His administration also started the Endangered Species Act in 1973 to
A few months after his trip to China Nixon would go to Russia hoping to work some of the differences out with the two countries. President Nixon believed that negotiations would lead to democracies being strenghtnend and peace. He accomplished getting the Soviet Union to agree to stop production of long range missiles for at least five years, this was the ABM agreement. They also agreed to limit the number of long range missiles under the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. This would be the beginning of the détente of the United States and Soviet Union agreeing to live peacefully and reducing