The Nixon Doctrine at 50

This summer marks the 50th Anniversary of the Nixon Doctrine. One day after the Apollo 11 splashdown in the South Pacific, President Nixon articulated a foreign policy doctrine in an informal press conference on the island of Guam. On this edition of the Nixon Now Podcast, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to talk the doctrine — its evolution, the context of the Vietnam War as well as its global application. Participants: Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University Michael Cotten, Assistant Professor of History at Temple College (Texas) Gregory Daddis, Associate Professor of History/Director of the Chapman University’s War and Society Program Luke Nichter, Professor of History, Texas A&M Central Texas Jonathan Movroydis, Moderator Read the transcript here: https://bit.ly/2ZZp7WZ Photo: President Nixon taking notes and studying briefing materials aboard Air Force One en route to his historic trip to China in 1972. (Richard Nixon Presidential Library)