Accomplishments during Presidency

• Opening formal relations with Communist China.
  
  
  
  
• Creating Détente with the Soviet Union.
  
  
  
  
• The SALT Treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty).
  
  To view treaty :
  
  
• Negotiating an honorable end to the Vietnam war.  (Announcement Speech )
  
  
• Creating the EPA.
  
  Visit :
  
  
• Declaring the War on Cancer.  (December 23, 1971)
  
  
• Ordering a halt to the production and Research & Development of U.S. Chemical Weapons.



• Taking the first steps to end the draft.
  
  
• Lowering the voting age to 18.
  
  To view the 26th amendment to the Constitution :
  
  
• Signing Act Prohibiting Cigarette Commercials
  
  
• Many more...

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