The Press : Richard M. Nixon--The View From Abroad

Richard M. Nixon studied, practiced and embraced foreign policy as much as any American President, and there can be few corners of the world where his name was not known. Nor were there many foreign editorial cartoonists who did not take a swipe at his famous profile.

As Dwight D. Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon often made headlines abroad--his motorcade attacked by leftist mobs in Caracas in 1959, his celebrated “kitchen debate” with Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev the same year.

Notoriety came to him as the President who was elected to wind down the war in Vietnam but who more often appeared to be firing it up. He won praise for breaking a post-World War II diplomatic barrier in 1972 with his trip to China.

His world image, however, could not escape the taint of the Watergate scandal, as shown by these works of foreign cartoonists, penned before his death Friday.