[Gritty]

I lived through the Nixon years.

Nixon wasn't tanywhere this bad. In fact, he was a pretty decent man and a reasonably good President. He was a political partisan, but he was an American first. I never had any doubt he was doing the best he could for this country.

The media and the Left never forgave him because he successfully went after that Communist spy in the State Department, Alger Hiss, and got him convicted. They were supporters of Hiss even after it was proven he was a Soviet spy and guilty of treason.

[uncommonsense]

"Nixon wasn't tanywhere this bad. In fact, he was a pretty decent man and a reasonably good President. He was a political partisan, but he was an American first. I never had any doubt he was doing the best he could for this country."

While "not as bad" (how can it be worse than a bunch of ACORN/CPUSA flunkies?) - the Nixon I knew was a typical statist and atypical tyrant. Price, wage, and market controls (Phase I, II, III), EPA, OSHA, expanding Vietnam while dictating Rules of Engagement that lost the war... and so on.