50th Anniversary of Moscow Summit

50th Anniversary of Moscow Summit

On the heels of a historic visit to China in February, President Nixon made another historic first in May 1972 by becoming the first U.S. President to visit Moscow. This was part of Nixon’s grand strategy of foreign policy centered on Triangular Diplomacy—seizing on...
Keeping Moscow off Balance

Keeping Moscow off Balance

President Nixon signs the SALT I (First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev on May 26, 1972 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library). On April 21, 1972, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, and top aides Helmut Sonnenfeldt and...