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Well, we agree that the two years of non-stop assault out of W&B did not help preserve Nixon's position. By the same token, Nixon wasn't helping himself, either. He did too much stonewalling and had an ongoing battle with the press, who detested him more than any previous Republican president in memory. IMO, Nixon's domestic policies were a disaster and only his foreign policies in partnership with Kissinger did anything to salvage even a portion of his presidency with voters - but he did nothing to endear himself to them.

That, Watergate and W&B all combined to doom whatever hopes he had left of leaving the WH with his reputation intact. However, to his credit, Nixon was able to overcome a lot of the damage done to his reputation by Watergate, etc., and was laid to rest being thopught of relatively well as an elder statesman.