Thanks for writing this, Ben. Now that I am in my sixties (and I deliberately use the word sixties to echo coming of age during that era...) I can see how if the media wants you dead, you are dead, all merit aside. And if the media wants you to live, you live, all incompetency or crimes aside. And when we say ´the Sixties,´ what we really mean are the Seventies--the Sixties of irresponsible rebellion really didn´t begin to happen until about 1966. All the insane behavior and ways of thinking of those days became institutionalized--the New Normal of the times--in the Seventies. And part of the required beliefs of the Seventies was the unquestioned villainy of Nixon. Such thinking has continued to be part of what people believe now, resulting in the election then re-election of what we have now.

"..he brought us the EPA...".

For this alone, I will forever curse Nixon´s name. Whatever good he ever did was erased by this most intrusive and oppressive of federal agencies. Every breath taken by EPA bureaucrats is an insult to the constitution.

During the Watergate mess, I wrote Nixon and told him of my support for him. It still stands. In return I received a letter, signed by him, expressing his thanks. While my wife thinks it is funny, I really treasure the letter, personally.

DEA, EPA, wage and price controls. That makes him a big government liberal.

I lost more than one friend to Nixon Derangement Syndrome....this form of groupthink mobocracy has become the left´s favorite WMD.

Covering for the Messiah of the Moment is the other half of this wicked game.

I was a solid supporter of RN for many years. Over time, however, my opinion of him has gone down. A lot of the inflation from the Carter era was due to Nixon´s disastrous wage/price controls and resultant material shortages that lasted for years. His Supreme Court appointee (Blackmun) authored Roe v. Wade. His ´Saturday night massacre´ destroyed any hope that the brilliant Robert Bork would (later on) make it to the big court. Some of his staff people, including VP Agnew, were hideous; with some of them (Liddy, Hunt, et al) directly causing Watergate and related scandals. And of course, as noted by above posters, we have the EPA, OSHA, DEA and other big government garbage that we suffer with today because of his presidency. Overall, Nixon turned out to be a moderate Republican who set policies that tacked between the liberals that ran Congress and conservatives who had no one else to look to.

#6-´´Overall, Nixon turned out to be a moderate Republican who set policies that tacked between the liberals that ran Congress and conservatives who had no one else to look to.´´
So similar to today´s Elite Establishment Republican political hacks, underminers of genuine conservatives.

Nixon may have mixed reviews, but he was a heck of a lot smarter and more patriotic than what we have now!

Compared to what we have today, Nixon looks like a real winner. No one ever said he was unpatriotic.