Nixon may not have been overtly sexual, but he was intensely emotional. Nixon was a fighter and I believe it was his destruction by the left that has cowed republicans into being wimps ever since.
Nixon fought the left as a threat to the country, an approach we desperately need today. I’m a George W supporter, but I’d like to kick him for every time he folded his hands and said the liberals were wonderful, “we just have an honest difference of opinion”.
Nixon was a self-identified Keynesian. He may have postured as a fighter of the left but had no trouble imposing one of their favorite meadures wage and price-controls.
Anyone who saw him at his wife's funeral could attest to that, the man was absolutely heartbroken by her passing and it showed.