panded the office into an important and prominent post.[44][49] Nixon conducted National Security meetings in the president's absence.[44] As President of the Senate, he intervened to make procedural rulings on filibusters to assure the passage of Eisenhower's 1957 civil rights bill, which created the United States Commission on Civil Rights and protected voting rights.[50]
Although he had little formal power, Nixon had the attention of the media and the Republican Party. Using these, he and his wife undertook many foreign trips of goodwill to garner support for American policies during the Cold War.[44] On one such trip to Caracas, Venezuela, anti-American prote
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