nnihilation remained high. Kennedy stood firm. (Amborse) Khrushshev finally backed down due to a proposal that he would send no more weapons if Kennedy would withdraw the blockade and not invade Cuba. Following the Cuban missile crisis caused European counties to think about revising their relationship with the US. Kennedy believed that that a struggle would remain throughout various third world counties, but that it was important to negotiate through diplomacy then to use military force. The third world counties needed to have their own desires as to what their government should be and Kennedy felt that this was the time to start that process. After Richard Nixon entered the presidency in 1968 he chose Henry Kissinger as his assistant for national security and his Secretary of State. Nixon and Kissinger both believed that if a nation were weak, it might be wise for the United States to ignore provocation, even if that nation were communist. If that nation were strong and able to harm the US then America must and should act to counter that nation. During the Vietnam War this administration authorized the bombing of Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese sanctuaries. This was concealed activity was not sanctioned by the American people. Kissinger created an elaborated covert network to keep the bombing a secret. (Rosatii) Many Americans already did not approve of Americas involvement in the Vietnam War. The White House became very concerned that the Democratic Party may have received knowledge of this secret bombing. This led up to the presidential scandal called Watergate. The White House brought its covert activities stateside and authorized a break in into the Watergate hotel to try to determine what the democrats knew about Cambodia. An investigation followed which unraveled all the deceit of the Nixon administration. The American people found out that this illegal activity was sanctioned all the way to the president himself. Nixon le...
