Virtue signaling has always been a way to turn potential adversaries into angry and hostile enemies.
There are no clean hands out there....
Years after Nixon was out of office he visited Oxford and spoke to a group of students there. Almost all of it was Q & A and he didn’t miss a beat. Surprisingly he was funny at times.
He responded to one question about putting our morals on other countries and that it wasn’t the right way to go about it - at least publicly. Kennedy or Johnson or somebody must have called for the Soviets to allow the Jews to leave for Israel and made a big public deal about it.
Nixon said trying to shame Russia into it publicly was the wrong way to do it. He said he never spoke publicly about Jews in Russia. The press would give him a hard time. Said that he hated Jews, why doesn’t he do anything, etc.
But - personally he would bring the Jews into the various negotiations quietly. At the end he had some crazy numbers. Under Kennedy(?) the number of Jews allowed to leave was in the hundreds. With Nixon, iirc it was in the tens of thousands that were allowed to leave.