how did henry kissinger affect american foreign policy under president nixon?
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Henry Kissinger, was instrumental in pushing foward the policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which led to a lessening of tensions between East and West during the Cold War. Detente led to a policy of engagement that culminated in the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. He also secured the normalization of relations with China through what has now been called "ping pong diplomacy".
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If there are countries (or a country) that have issued an "arrest warrant" on some claim of "war crimes violation" against Kissinger -- Belgium comes to mind as a possibility, but they have since abrogated that law, under which they proposed to try Ariel Sharon, ignoring his sovereign immunity (Pinochet, at least, was out of office when action was brought against him, and it related to domestic law and violence against Spaniards, etc. as well.)\n\nIt may be that Kissinger would avoid one or more countries; but no friendly country is going to extradite or deport him based on actions he took as minister of government on behalf of the USA. So, that would leave a few tin-pot Latin American countries. Vietnam depends too much on the USA , and seemingly would rather forget the whole thing.\n\nExtradition always involves a political decision by the executive of a country. \n\nA couple of minutes spent Googling showed that Kissinger has traveled to Seoul for a conference: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200503/kt2005030316512611680.htm and I'm sure he's been to many other places around the world as well. Still, protests and threats to "try" him abound. See below. Most or all are blowing smoke.\n\nWhatever one thinks of Kissinger (and I don't think much) it serves no purpose to blame him for all of American imperialism and all of American evils abroad. They are endemic to right-wing American thought, and greed. And hubris.
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There won't be any significant change in the foreign policy of the US government with change of guard in the White house. Its nuclear policy is directly linked with its obsession of world dominance against the background of the two World Wars. But with the fast changing world they have to be more realistic and rise to the occasion, otherwise their domestic problems will get more complicated.
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Serious negotiations to end the war began after U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Contacts between North Vietnam and the United States in Paris in 1968 were expanded in 1969 to include South Vietnam and the NLF. The United States, under the leadership of President Richard M. Nixon, altered its tactics to combine U.S. troop withdrawals with intensified bombing and the invasion of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia (1970).\n\nThe length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes such as the massacre at My Lai (see My Lai incident) helped to turn many in the United States against the war. Politically, the movement was led by Senators James William Fulbright, Robert F. Kennedy, Eugene J. McCarthy, and George S. McGovern; there were also huge public demonstrations in Washington, D.C., as well as in many other cities in the United States and on college campuses.\n\nEven as the war continued, peace talks in Paris progressed, with Henry Kissinger as U.S. negotiator. A break in negotiations followed by U.S. saturation bombing of North Vietnam did not derail the talks, and a peace agreement was reached, signed on Jan. 27, 1973, by the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the NLF's provisional revolutionary government. The accord provided for the end of hostilities, the withdrawal of U.S. and allied troops (several Southeast Asia Treaty Organization countries had sent token forces), the return of prisoners of war, and the formation of a four-nation international control commission to ensure peace.
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the early part of the 20th century and throughout the entire century, the United States has had a growing fascination with China. Prior to the communist take over, in 48-49, the nationalist government run by Chiang Kai Shek (sp), had significant ties to the united states and powerful lobbiest, called the china lobby. Our country supported the nationalist government for decades till the communist took over, and they ran to modern day taiwan. When the communist took over, they closed the door to western powers and influences focusing on using Marxian doctrine to take over the economic and political forces which were previously more open market. It was not until Deng Zhau Peng took over the governement, after Mao Tse Tung died, did the doors begin to open wider to the United States and other western countries.  The Nixon administration during this time period was able to open the doors further with not only china, but also with Russia during Nixon's time in office. It was one of the main achievements in his administration, even amidst the failures.
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During Nixon's administration, Rep. VP Agnew was caught cheating on his taxes by the IRS. He resigned his office. Nixon then appointed Gerald Ford to take his place. When the Watergate burglary investigation was implicating Pres. Nixon, Nixon resigned and Rep. VP Gerald Ford became President, appointing Rockefeller  to the VP opening. The U.S. then had a President AND Vice President that was never elected by the people. Ford gave Nixon immunity  from prosecution for any crimes he may have committed while in office.\n\nNow give me all those thumbs down..........I love em'. \n\nThis set a double standard of justice in our country. While ordinary citizens were being prosecuted and jailed for far lesser crimes, President Nixon received the so called "Get out of jail free" card. It defied the U.S. Constitutional Bill of Rights concerning "equal justice".
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1972 -- Nixon visits China \n \nNixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit China, meeting with Mao Tse-tung on February 21. The two countries issue a communique recognizing their "essential differences" while making it clear that "normalization of relations" was in all nations' best interests. The rapprochement changes the balance of power with the Soviets.
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Are you talking about Elihu Yale?  If so, yes, I realize the influence he has on American politics today.
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Marcel has made some good points, with the exception of the ending of the Vietnam War in 1973. Recently, in a debate about 'Deep Throat,' Pat Buchanan had stated that President Nixon had authorized the 1973 pullout from Vietnam as a means of getting peoples' minds off of Watergate. It is very unlikely that the war effort would have been terminated when it did, because earlier President Nixon had placed some very severe conditions on American withdrawal, but in 1973 they were all abandoned.\n\nSpecifically, President Nixon had made the following demands on North Vietnam and the Viet Cong:\n\n1-All foreign combatants to be withdrawn from South Vietnam - instead, the US accepted 'certification' that NVA units in South Vietnam would stay in place and not continue to attack.\n\n2-All American servicemen listed as prisoners would be returned to the USA or relevant explanations provided - the US had maintained that 1500 American servicemen were missing and assumed alive and captured in Laos by either the Pathet Lao or the North Vietnames Army, but the USA agreed to instead list them all as dead.\n\n3-Verifiable cease fire to be in place before the USA would withdraw forces - the USA agreed to drop this condition altogether.\n\nThe Christmas Bombings, largely credited with bringing the North Vietnamese back to Paris, would have probably been continued (with subsequent continuation of loss of B-52 bombers over Hanoi) until North Vietnam actually made agreements they would stick to. The USA would then have kept faith with South Vietnam in 1975 when the next round of incursions began, and hippies would then have assaulted President Reagan in 1977 for reinstituting the draft and sending troops back to South Vietnam and invading the Peoples Republic of China. In 1981, discredited by new military deadlocks in Shanghai, President Reagan would have been followed by President Edmund Muskie, the economy would have collapsed 1n 1983, and in 1984 President Muskie would have benn succeeded by President Gus Hall, perennial candidate of the American Communist Party. In 1989, President Hall would have broken ties with Moscow and alligned the PRUSA (Peoples' Republic of the United States of America) with Albania and Yugoslavia as a third tier of World Communism. World War III would have ensued.
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Henry Kissinger is it?
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From Henry Kissinger, as quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's In Vietnam": \n\n“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”\n\nThis from the former National Security Advisor under Nixon & Secretary of State under Nixon & Ford.....AND....regular advisor to Cheney & Bush on matters regarding the War in Iraq.\n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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Love the question, love love love it.  \nIt completely changed foreign policy.  The US used to use the fear of the USSR against the rest of the world to bully them around.  Once the "Iron Curtain" fell we needed to spread cash around. \nAs far as domestic policy, it did the same thing.  The government needed to find a new enemy of the US people to keep us in fear of something.
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Well never know.\n\nFrom what I read, people didn't believe Nixon could have known about that watergate thing.
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Nixon did a couple of things that Bobby wouldn't have done. He took the dollar off of the silver standard and allowed it to float which devalued it. He also allowed Private ownership of gold which took investment money out of the markets. He also was one of those supply side economic Repuglicans that tried and failed to boost the economy. I don't think that Bobby would have done any of those things. I am not sure what he would have done about the Viet Nam war but I don't think he would have turned tail and run. That is about the only thing that Nixon did that I could agree with. We needed to get out of there.
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Not so much a bill, but it was Nixon who championed and killed it. With advice from several people, including William H. Meckling.\n\n\nhttp://www.renewamerica.us/columns/plecnik/041019\nhttp://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/domestic.htm\nhttp://www.davidrhenderson.com/articles/0199_thankyou.html
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well, sorry, but Ronald Reagan is involved in my answer.  The end of the Cold War was a pretty major one.
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Both of these Presidents have been extremely misunderstood.  However Nixon was caught in absolute lies and a cover up of criminal activities.  Had he not resigned he would have surely been impeached and after he resigned had he not been pardoned he would have still been impeached.  Nixon did do some very important things while in the job.  He opened the doors to Communist China and ended our participation in the War in Viet Nam.   Bush has been accussed of lying to the American People in order to go to war in Iraq, he has not been accused of lying to Congress in order to get the approval to do so.  All parties had the same Intelligence and the same vote was taken by Congress in 1998 while Clinton was President with the same Intelligence then as well.  Nixon did in fact lie to the American People for which he later paid a heavy price as well as apoligize to the American People.  However it is not against the law to lie to the American Public if it were then our prisons would be full of politicians that ran for office.  Whereas I believe that President Bush if he did in fact lie was not aware that what he was saying was not the truth at the time he said it.  Nixon did know and did it anyway.  The WMD question will haunt all of us for years to come, if they don't end up in the hands of a terrorist group as is thought what has happened in Amann, Jordan within the past few weeks in a plot that was foiled by the same intelligence that we complain about President Bush abusing our rights by listening to our International calls and e-mails.\n\nAfter Nixon resigned the office of President of the U.S. he was considered the most hated man in history in polls that were done at that time.  This pushed Adolph Hitler to number two for the first time in over 30 years.  When Nixon died there were people lined up for Eight Miles to walk by and pay their respects to a man who had once been President.  I believe that History is going to prove the Bush was right, however it may be a few years after he is out of office before that happens.  We here in America always seem to complain about the President that we have at the time and love them when the are retired.