1. Nixon

2. I. Foreign Policy A. Henry Kissinger
1. Harvard Professor / Secretary of State 
a. Realpolitik or practical politics 
b. Détente:  easing of tensions (with USSR)

3. B. China 
1. 1st US President to ever visit China 
2. the basis for diplomatic ties are established 
3. Us the Chinese to get to the USSR – like “asking a friend”, develop relations with USSR 

4. C. USSR 
1. Leonid Brezhnev – Leader of the Soviet Union 
2. Proliferation:  the buildup of nuclear weapons 
3. SALT – signed by Nixon and Brezhnev 
a. SALT:  Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty 

5. D. Wars Power Act 
1. federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. 

6. II. Election of 1972 4. The cover up
a. “Plumbers” wire taping the phones 
b. FBI traces money back to the Nixon re-election campaign 
c. CIA interference 
1. Nixon attempts to get the CIA to halt the FBI 
d. bribes in the media 
e. Audio tapes and the missing minutes 
f. Nixon’s resignation 
A. Watergate 
1. “dirty tricks” / wire taps 
2. punish leakers 
3. Democratic Convention