1972 Election

Question 1

reasons why Nixon got relected

Answer 1

his foreign policy triumphs
democrat problems
the continued support of Middle America

Question 2

his foreign policy triumphs

Answer 2

He improved relations with the USSR and the SALT was the first meaningful agreement to put a brake on the soviet-american nuclear arms race
His restoration of relations with Communist China after 20 years of tense hostility was statesmanlike. He exploited it effectively, obtaining the Chinese government’s promise that ‘no Democrat is to go to China before the president’ and ensuring saturation media of his 1972 visit when he returned from China, he waited for nine hours in Alaska so his plane could land in W DC at the 9 pm primetime tv news hour.
Nixon’s troop withdrawals from Vietnam pleased voters as did Henry Kissinger’s announcement that ‘peace is at hand’ in Vietnam on the eve of the election