rld affairs as had many chief executives in the past. He repudiated his anti-Communist past and became the first US president to visit the Soviet Union when he traveled to Moscow in May of 1972. He sought peace with the opposing super-power and initiated negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons, which resulted in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). At the same time, he was making secret contact with the other great communist nation, the People's Republic of China, which he visited publicly in February 1972, thus opening official diplomatic relations with China for the first time since the communist takeover in 1949. But no—Nixon is not remembered for his good deeds; the mistakes he made seem to overshadow his accomplishments. Nixon never committed perjury before a Grand Jury. Nixon never had oral sex in the Oval Office with an intern half his age. Nixon never tampered with witnesses who could testify to such an affair. Nixon never sent his wife on national television to blame all his problems on a vast left-wing conspiracy--although a much better case could've been made - the Left wing media loathed Nixon ever since he uncovered Alger Hiss in 1948. Nixon never sold nuclear missile technology to the Communist Chinese in exchange for illegal campaign contributions. They have a word for that; it is called "treason". Nixon never money laundered illegal foreign campaign contributions via monks at a Buddhist temple. Nixon never rented out the Lincoln Bedroom at $10,000 a night to drug dealers, arms smugglers or international criminals; nor did he allow a fat-cat campaign contributor to be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Don't they call that, at the very least, "bribery"? Nixon never stole 900 FBI files on political opponents. For looking at one such file, Chuck Colson went to prison for eighteen months. Nixon never paid $500,000 of hush money to one of his former legal partners who was in prison for fraud and e...
