Nixon outlines his plan to move from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation.
He reduced tensions with China and Soviet Union
After World War l the United States stuck with a strict policy of isolationism. The American people didn’t want to be involved in European affairs. Accepting the refugees would’ve been a way for the U.S. to get dragged into the war. We see in the later years after the Imperial Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor where isolationism in the States becomes a distant memory and where the U.S. begins taking position on the world stage.
