Major Initiatives:

• Normalizing of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and partially abandoning the Republic of China on Taiwan as part of Realpolitik, a foreign policy eschewing moral considerations. In the short term Nixon was successful in playing the "China card" against the Soviet Union and its client state North Vietnam.
  
• Détente, or the peaceful pause in the Cold War; détente ended in 1979, replaced by another phase of the Cold War.
  
• Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
  
• Establishment of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  
• Establishment of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  
• Establishment of the Supplemental Security Income program.
  
• Establishment of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise
  
• Post Office Department abolished as a cabinet department and reorganized as a government owned corporation, the U.S Postal Service.
  
• SALT I, or Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, led to the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
  
• "Vietnamization": the training and arming of South Vietnamese forces to allow the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
  
• Suspension of the convertibility of the US dollar into gold, a central point of the Bretton Woods system, allowing its value to float in world markets.
  
• Space Shuttle program started.
  
• Endorsed an enlightened self-determination policy for Native Americans that changed the direction of policy as continued from the New Deal through the Great Society.

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