President Nixon's Involvement In Vietnam

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President Nixon is remembered as the only president that resigned. Today, people have a great resentment towards him and picture him as a criminal. Others know about his fall, but they still have an admiration towards him. If it was not for President Nixon’s unique leadership, then the United States would not stand where it stands today.
When President Nixon took office on January 20, 1969, he began to reveal his plans. 20“During his early months at the White House, Nixon worked out a timetable for U.S. withdrawal and entered into direct negotiations with the North Vietnamese on political and military issues.” He called it the Vietnamization strategy, and he announced it in March of 1969. The purpose of this plan was to end the American involvement
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More than 500,000 American soldiers were withdrawn. Also, the South Vietnamese learned to protect themselves. The great disadvantage was that the South Vietnamese fell into Communist by 1975. 21Nixon hoped his administration would be remembered as one that “turned the era of confrontation into the era of negotiation”.
On January 1,1970, President Richard M. Nixon enacted the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The purpose of this act established protection for the environment. NEPA created a Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Agencies from the Council on Environmental Quality and White House officials get together to develop environmental policies to protect Earth. The first time Earth Day was celebrated was on April 22, 1970.
Since the day National Environmental Policy Act was enacted, major advances were made in the environmental area. On December of 1970, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Before EPA was created, there was no central authority, but now the protection for the environment is
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It was a surprising visit for everyone, especially because it was a week long of agreements. President Nixon’s purpose for this trip was to bring the United States and China back to relations.
23“When asked to explain his decision to open relations with China, he explained that statistically, he saw the expanding population explosion of China and what it would mean economically in future markets and trade, and geopolitical, how our access with the People’s Republic would strengthen our international leverage.” He was the first president to visit the People’s Republic of China since 1949. This was a very important event for the United States because the Nation desired to improve relations with a Communist.
There, Nixon met the chairman of China; the United States and China developed political and economic relations. The United States and China had to develop principles to prevent another division between the United States and China. Both leaders knew that the U.S. and China have many differences in their social systems and foreign policies, but they both established a successful agreement and respect all their