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He doesn't get bashed enough, if anything. Certainly Henry Kissinger doesn't. Nixon sold himself out to Strom Thurmond to secure the nomination in '68(he was afraid he would lose it to the star of Goldwater's disastrous '64 campaign: Ronald Reagan) and scrupulously appointed justices vetted by him and his cadre of ex-Dixiecrats. He intentionally and maliciously sabotaged(with Kissinger's help) Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to ensure he could hang that failure on Hubert Humphrey in the election, he did his utmost to sabotage integration and smeared both the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement, launched the war on drugs, interfered in the Democratic primary, etc. etc. etc.
Like, where do you end? Nixon was an evil psychopathic monster who craved power for power's sake, and that he was intelligent and charismatic only made him vastly more dangerous.