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Change in US policy towards the People's Republic of China during the Nixon administration.
On October 1, 1949, standing at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, Mao proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese people have stood up.. nobody will insult us again. These words reflected the culmination of the revolution and the end of the century of dishonour and …
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Change in US policy towards the People's Republic of China during the Nixon administration.
On October 1, 1949, standing at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, Mao proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese people have stood up.. nobody will insult us again. These words reflected the culmination of the revolution and the end of the century of dishonour and …
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Red power in the age of Nixon : an analysis of the official memory of Native protest.
The Nixon administration is remembered for being one of the most progressive presidencies in history in terms of federal Native policy, and yet was still thoroughly colonial. One of the easily visible facets of its coloniality was its interactions with Native protesters, wherein government …
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The Oil Weapon Moment: The 1973 Oil Embargo and its Impacts on U.S. Energy Politics
… While its likelihood was foreseen by the Nixon Administration, the embargo did exacerbate an existing energy crisis that was caused by pre-embargo federal energy policies. Following the embargo, a dominant narrative emerged that viewed dependence on foreign oil supplies as an existential …
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No More Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: The Nixon Doctrine, South Korea, and the Vietnam War
… until the end of the Vietnam War, the Richard Nixon administration and the South Korean Park Chung-hee administration, balanced their own priorities with those of their bilateral allies. For President Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy priority centered …
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L'anno che non fu? L'anno dell'Europa e la crisi nelle relazioni transatlantiche, 1973/74
… dynamics of the actors involved, mainly the Nixon administration and a unifying Europe. The Nixon administration had not carefully planned what the initiative actually should have amounted to, and its official announcement appears to have been one of Kissinger’s coups de theatre. Yet the Year …
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Sino-Soviet border clashes of 1969 and its implications on the making of U.S. foreign policy.
… the aftermath of the crisis was reduced, and the Nixon administration made it possible for the Chinese leaders to begin a major reorientation of its foreign relations with the U.S. The impact of Sino-Soviet tensions on the moves toward rapprochement was taken by both Beijing and Washington and …
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US Foreign Policy During the Nixon and Ford Administrations
… debate over the degree of responsibility of the Nixon Administration compared to internal pressures that instigated the 1973 military coup that ousted Salvador Allende. Rather than attempting to assess the degree of US responsibility for the coup, this thesis explores the motivations and …
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Cultivating Reform: Richard Nixon's Illicit Substance Control Legacy, Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations, And Venue Shopping
… were drafted, promoted, and implemented by the Nixon Administration then subsequently entrenched by multiple presidents with acquiescent congresses adopting supplemental supply-side resource allocating legislation. My dissertation research uncoils the convoluted history and institutional …
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The massacre at My Khe 4: a different story.
… 4 and of ensuring, with the encouragement of the Nixon administration, that no one would be tried for them. Whilst the story of My Khe 4 reveals many of the Army's weaknesses, however, it does not supply evidence of conspiracy. The massacre at My Khe 4 and its consequences are significant because …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… disaffection of some top scientists led the Nixon administration to dismantle the entire Eisenhower-era presidential science advisory system. The ethical debates of the Vietnam era cast a long shadow, shifting popular attitudes toward science and heavily influencing the character of …
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The Reluctant Sorority: Stories of American Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, 1965–1973. Lessons in Exercising Leadership in the Absence of Power
… including high-ranking officials of the Nixon administration, and analyzing presidential papers held by the National Archives and accessed through the Freedom of Information Act. The major purpose of this second round of data collection and analysis was to explore linkages between the …
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“An Exercise in International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” and Nixon’s 1969 War on Drugs
… Office in January 1969, President Richard M. Nixon inherited a nation in crisis with drugs playing a central role. At a campaign stop a few months earlier, Nixon announced to a packed convention center in Anaheim, CA, that if elected president he would end the flow of the illicit drugs coming …
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“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974)
<p>In 1969, President Richard Nixon inherited a much different Cold War than that which existed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Writ large, the project of ‘containing’ communism appeared to be falling apart. The Soviet Union was ascendant in Eurasia, the Vietnam War was continuing to grind down …
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Soviet-American Relations during the Cold War: What Policies and Circumstances Conspired to Unravel the Soviet Empire?
… independent nations and then abandoned by the Nixon administration in favor of détente. Meanwhile, by the same token, the failure of Stalin’s imperialist designs to extend the empire beyond Eastern Europe testified to the success of US policy in checking Soviet expansionist designs. Following …
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An Interagency Approach to Reforming the Administration of Federal Grant-In-Aid Programs: A Case Study of the Indian Task Force of the Western Federal Regional Council
<p>The administration of public policy has always been a challenge in the United States because power is divided and dispersed on both an institutional and a regional basis. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the administration of the federal grant-in-aid programs which developed during the …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… policy. The term détente was popularized by the Nixon administration, and specifically by National Security Advisor (and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger, in 1969.</p> <p>During the 1970s, the two superpowers sought to limit their nuclear arsenals through the Strategic Arms Limitations …