Published by Primary Source Microfilm

This collection of presidential documents provides unique access to primary materials on an important period in American foreign policy and relations.

This microfilm collection details the worldview of foreign policy during the administration of Richard M. Nixon. This collection chronicles the realism that both President Nixon and his policy advisers used in mentally ordering the world and in formulating policy. It highlights the diplomacy that the Nixon administration employed to achieve Vietnamization, détente, and other objectives. It reveals worries about U.S. power and American credibility, while tracing the construction of the Nixon Doctrine to meet perceived challenges.