OTOH, he WAS the most maligned presidential race loser and winner ( when he beat Helen Gahagan Douglas, in the Senate race ) ever, and is still being impugned, maligned, and having patently ridiculous calumny heaped upon him still.
Still and all, what has been and is being to President Trump, is even worse.
I’d vote for Dick Nixon against any Democrat I can imagine were he still alive and eligible. Hell, Hubert Humphrey is looking good at this remove.
Remember Nixon's "last" press conference, on 7 November 1962, after losing the California governor's race to Governor Moonbeam's dad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMSb-tS_OM
Short and sweet, compared to the Hildebeest!
The Left hated him because he stole their glory.