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The political and financial risks of the 1970s are back in the White House, Edward Price writes in a guest commentary.
Trump has sought to decrease diplomatic tensions with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid his war with Ukraine, while ...
As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and ...
Events that displease China’s diplomats are usually good for the United States, and this week they were hopping mad. At the ...
Nixon believed in the Cold War order. He understood power, respected its limits, and wielded it through diplomacy, secrecy, and calculation.
I n the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half ...
The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.
The cold calculus of human lives dictated that a great man should let thousands die so that billions may live without fear of nuclear war. Nixon wanted to be a great man.
War Powers Resolution attempted to constrain presidential power, but presidents have exploited its many loopholes.
In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union.