By escalating the bombing of North Vietnam Let us take as our goal where peace is unknown, make it
welcome, where peace is fragile, make it strong where peace is
temporary, make it permanent. After a period of confrontation,
we are entering an era of negotiation. Let all nations know that
during this administration our lines of communication will be
open. We seek an open world-open to Ideas, open to the
exchange of goods and people world in which no people, great
or small, will live in angry Isolation. We cannot expect to make
everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy
By the normalization of relations with China
By supporting the Arab coalition during the Yom Kippur War
- President Richard Nixon, first inaugural address,
January 20, 1969
By attacking enemy bases in Cambodia
How was the goal set forth in this excerpt advanced during President Nixon's
administration?
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