Richard Nixon changes the nation's Cold War strategy. President Nixon has relations with big communist power but he completely changed the cold war strategy. Nixon was politically an anticommunist but when it came to foreign policy Nixon and Kissinger were realists. They decided to gain power and create stability instead of fighting. They wanted to keep relations with the Soviet Union and hoped that the Russians would help the United States with the war in Vietnam. He used the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to moderate his views on anticommunism. He pursued a detente with the Soviet Union. Détente is when two or more countries is trying to ease the aggression between countries. He also created relations
