Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California. He had a tough start in life. His parents’ lemon farm failed and two of his brothers died in childhood. He didn’t let any of that hold him back.

Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev wanted a better relationship with America, and U.S. president Richard Nixon, who was worried about the possibility of nuclear war and preoccupied by the Vietnam ...

Detente began in 1969 as a core element of the foreign policy of US President Richard Nixon. In an effort to avoid an escalation of conflict with the Eastern Bloc, the Nixon administration ...