Since Nixon protected the Environment, that would be one example.
Nixon was an enlightened conservative in a liberal Republican era, he fought off Rockefeller, Scranton & Romney to get
the 1968 nomination. He passed liberal policies such as the EPA & OSHA but I don't believe domestic policy was his forte
or main interest. Nixon's genius in foreign policy can be evidenced in many notable successful efferts:
1) True to his campaign promise Nixon removed all combat troops from Viet Nam, (the 3rd costliest war in US history
in troop deaths) after giving North Vietnam a heavy dose of B-52 bombing. Vietnamization of the War followed. When
he was removed from office the commies realized they didn't have Nixon to deal with anymore, Ford was a pushover & they pounced.
2) In his typical cunning, & sly way an event so unexpected that it created a phrase that’s become part of our political lexicon:
The shorthand is “Nixon goes to China,” meaning a moment in which a leader reverses his past positions to do
something that is shocking but beneficial.
3) Benefits of Nixon's détente policies to previous cold war strategies are obvious no need to elaborate
4) At the precise critically essential moment, when Israel refused to stop fighting until it had surrounded the
Egyptian Third Army, Nixon & Kissinger's SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY not interested in humiliating the Arabs brokered a truce
ending the Yom Kippor War. Craftily they managed to be accepted as a broker by the Arabs as well as the Israelis
and to draw back Soviet influence which before that time was prominent.
