Great picture!
Yeah, “anti-Semite” is probably too strong a statement, although Nixon certainly used some crusty language.
Heh... I wasn’t a Nixon fan back then, but the drumbeat against him on the covers of Time and Newsweek was constant for over a year, the Watergate Hearings were on every weekday, the flood of books was amazing, and of course, I was young and gullible as many of us have been at that young age.
The licking that the Demwits took in 1972 was entirely due to the non-viability of McGovern at the top of their ticket, and emphatically not due to the failed break-in. The fact that Nixon thought that going lawless about that was necessary is puzzling in the extreme, until one realizes that the cooked-books polls (which were already taking over in the media) showed him getting beaten badly early in the campaign. He was a cunning and intelligent President, but as a human being he had, ahem, some issues. He was obviously wrong to order it, and stupid to have a taping system of any kind (before him, JFK, LBJ had such a system).
As the comedian Norm McDonald noted, in the movie, Frost beat Nixon, but in the real interview series, Nixon beat Frost. It wasn’t even close. And in large part it rehabilitated him to the point that he could face crowds again, and like his handpicked successor started to earn a living off being an ex-President.
Even before the conclusion of the 1972 “peace treaty” with Hanoi, made near the end of the campaign, McGovern’s ass was toast and everyone knew it. Nixon lost Massachusetts (a loss often attributed to his closure of the pointless naval base) — only George Washington had won every last electoral vote.