Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled. The task of managing America's relative decline fell to President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Gerald Ford. From 1969 to 1977, Nixon, Kissinger, and Ford reoriented U. S. foreign policy from its traditional poles of liberal interventionism and conservative isolationism into a policy of active but conservative