in 1994. He was the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Nixon had served two terms as vice president under Dwight Eisenhower before he himself ran for president in 1960, however, he was defeated by John F. Kennedy. He gave it a second try in 1968, during the Vietnam War. During the election campaigns he claimed that he had a secret plan which would make an end to the Vietnam War. The public believed that he was the man who could make an end to the war, and elected him. His secret plan was the "Vietnamization" policy which was supposed to reduce the U.S. combat role in Vietnam. He played a great role in the Vietnam War and the U.S. military involvement in the war. Nixon was elected for a second term as president, but he didnt complete his second term due to the Watergate scandal. He resigned from presidency when he was faced with almost certain impeachment for covering up his administration's involvement in the break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate during the 1972 election campaign. While he was president, Nixon accomplished 2 significant things, firstly a peace accord between North Vietnam, South Vietnam and America. Secondly, he was able to reduce tensions with China and the Soviet Union. Henry A. KissingerHenry Alfred Kissinger was born in 1923 in Frth in Germany. In 1938 he was brought to the United States. In America he graduated from Harvard University. From 1943 to 1946 Kissinger served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army.In 1957 he wrote his first book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. In this book he supported flexibility in U.S. foreign military activities; this book became very important in American foreign policy. He wrote the book during the time that he teached in the department of government at Harvard. In the 1950s and 1960s he served as an occasional foreign-policy adviser to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson; he also conducted studies for sever...
