Nixon got Alger Hiss. That’s the main reason the Left has hated him. Nixon validated, in his way, McCarthy’s House of Un-American Activities committee.
Nixon exposed the communists in the FDR and Truman administrations. Nixon’s world anti-communism was nowhere near as threatening to the Progressive movement as the leftist pinko commies infiltrating our own government.
Nixon exposed that soft underbelly in our government that persists to this day with communists and radical Islamists.
Exposing the pervasive insidious Godless subterranean sprawl of leftist radicalism is the ultimate unforgivable political sin.
True.
Also Nixon was a lawyer. I think somewhere there’s a good book that looks that presidents in the context of what they did prior to becoming president.
Lincoln was a lawyer and that surely informed his view of the world. Wilson was an egghead prof. Obamugabe was a community organizer. Eisenhower was a general. And so on and so on.
I suspect that Nixon erred in seeing Watergate in a lawyerly fashion when he should have viewed it as an existential threat.
McCarthy had nothing to do with HUAC, McCarthy was a Senator, not a Congressman. That is a mistake that the left has perpetuated over the years, blaming the abuses of the HUAC on McCarthy, and there were abuses, many of them created by Democrats.
My grandfather was accused of being a communist by the CIO and referred to the HUAC. Nothing came of it because he wasn’t a communist, but the investigation continued for years, until his death and just about destroyed him, but that was the purpose.
The CIO had tried to kill my grandfather after he was elected to be the first CIO president at RCA because the CIO was afraid of him, afraid that he wouldn’t blindly follow union leaders on racial hiring policies and other union tactics. They tried to get him moved to management, but he turned that down, so the CIO had him run down as he stood on the curb in front of his home, waiting to cross the street.
RCA responded to the attack on my grandfather by closing the plant and moving to Indiana without the CIO. The people of Camden county responded by electing my grandfather to the NJ State Assembly. The CIO responded by accusing by grandfather of being a communist.