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the association with allies, where the US was obligated to provide its allies with economic or political support if the case was ever necessary.

To conclude we think that this speech was a way of winning back the people’s trust and make them sympathize with America, however almost every american still believed that a war would just worsen United States’ situation.

IMPACT ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Because his governmental period was filled with war conflicts, Nixon was obligated to see matters of the human rights as a second term, he thought that it would be best for the country’s well-being to focus on political and strategic matters, along with his security advisor, Henry Kissinger. In fact, you could say that they left human rights aspect completely aside of their concerns and in some occasions even trample them. This statement can be proven in numerous incidents like how they overlooked the rights of the Taiwanese in order to ally themselves with the communist China against the USSR, also the american support for the overthrow of the socialist president Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 and finally the secret bombing of Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. However Nixon implemented new domestic policies that would benefit the minorities causing a great impact in the human rights. He signed the Title IX in 1972, a civil rights law that would allow women to enter collegiate sports and preventing gender inequality in schools. Another policy he employed was the change in the 26th amendment where he lowered the voting age from twenty one to eighteen years old. Finally he ended forced assimilation policy of the Native Americans and returned their sacred lands.

With all of our previous data it is safe to conclude that Richard Nixon was not one of the greatest presidents America has ever had, nonetheless he was the one responsible for removing the America from one of the greatest fight US has ever been involved, Nixon was able to restore the peace caused by the cold war conflict, at all costs.

APA

Richard Nixon’s Top Domestic and Foreign Policy Achievements » Richard Nixon

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"Digital History." Digital History. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2017, from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3464

Nixon,R. (1969, November 3) “Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam”.

Nixon, R. (1969, November 03). Nixon’s ‘Silent Majority’ Speech. Retrieved March 14, 2017, from http://watergate.info/1969/11/03/nixons-silent-majority-speech.html

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