Editing Nixon Doctrine (section)

{{Short description|Foreign policy espoused by U.S. president Richard Nixon in 1969}}
[[File:President Richard Nixon, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office.jpg|thumb|260x260px|President Richard Nixon speaking with [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]] and [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. secretary of state]] [[Henry Kissinger]] on November 1, 1973]]
The '''Nixon Doctrine''' (sometimes referred to as the '''Guam Doctrine''') was the foreign policy doctrine of [[Richard Nixon]], the 37th [[president of the United States]] from 1969 to 1974. It was put forth by Nixon on July 25, 1969, during a press conference in [[Guam]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2140 |title=Richard Nixon: "Informal Remarks in Guam With Newsmen," July 25, 1969 |author1=Peters, Gerhard |author2=Woolley, John T |work=The American Presidency Project |publisher=University of California - Santa Barbara |access-date=May 21, 2014 |archive-date=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810104333/https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/gulf-of-tonkin |url-status=dead }}</ref> and formalized in his speech on [[Vietnamization]] on November 3, 1969.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/4106/the-nixon-doctrine-in-the-21st-century | title=The Nixon Doctrine in the 21st Century| date=22 July 2009}}</ref> 

According to Gregg Brazinsky, author of "Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy", Nixon stated that "the United States would assist in the defense and developments of allies and friends" but would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world."<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v01/d60 | title = Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume I, Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969–1972, Document 60 |  date = 18 February 1970 | access-date= 25 July 2019| publisher= Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State}}</ref> This doctrine meant that each ally nation was in charge of its own security in general, but the U.S. would act as a [[nuclear umbrella]] when requested. The doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace through a [[partnership]] with American allies.