Vivek Ramaswamy sat at an old piano, playing the keys of an instrument that once belonged to former President Richard Nixon.
A short time later, he stood before a crowded ballroom at the library that bears the former president’s name, often invoking Nixon’s policies and peace sign gesture, to unveil his own foreign policy agenda.
It was there at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda on Thursday, Aug. 17 that the Republican presidential candidate spoke about how he would “restore Nixon realism” to the United States’ foreign policy if elected.
With less than a week to go until the first Republican presidential debate, Ramaswamy told the hundreds of people in attendance that Nixon, a Yorba Linda native, “deserves to be remembered for what he did to our foreign policy.”
“Nixon is the most underappreciated president, probably in all of American history,” he said. “The North Star of my foreign policy will be the modern Monroe Doctrine combined with the Nixon Doctrine.”
In 1969, Nixon announced a foreign policy doctrine that said the role of the U.S. in Asian affairs should be to “assist” rather than “dictate.” Nixon reportedly said that “as far as the problems of military defense, except for the threat of a major power involving nuclear weapons, that the United States is going to encourage and has a right to expect that this problem will be handled by, and responsibility for it taken by, the Asian nations themselves.”
Ramaswamy, on Thursday, said the U.S. involvement with the war in Ukraine isn’t advancing the United States’ national interest. He took shots at generally bipartisan support for Ukraine, saying, “The worst ideas are bipartisan, and our engagement of the Ukrainian War continues to prove that.”
Under his terms in ending the war, Ramaswamy said, Russian President Vladimir Putin would be required to “exit his military alliance with China,” greatly benefitting the United States. The…
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