Nixon also came up with Affirmative Action and, in doing so, managed to give the Democrats more power than they could have imagined.
LBJ coined the term affirmative action at his speech at Howard University in 1965, but Nixon made it a reality. Julie Nixon Eisenhower in time took it to mean she had to endorse Obama.
You are comparing the post JFK/post 1960s Nixon to the old Nixon.
JFK changed America forever, and irreversibly, shortly after his death the democrats implemented his immigration goal to replace the American voters.