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Good find. Thanks for posting. As for me, I am at a loss to determine how Nixon could be viewed as "conservative." I doubt we'll ever see THAT revised, unless he somehow is revised into becoming a hero, and then the left will adopt him. Sure, he was a staunch anti-communist, but, except for fellow-travellers, who wasn't? Kennedy was, Humphrey was, Jackson was, Johnson was, Truman was, Kennan was.

Wage and price controls, affirmative action, the EPA, and on and on, make him at least an anti-republican statist, if not a modern day liberal.

...with the possible exception of George H.W. Bush, who is also enjoying a bit of a revival these days. Some liberals find his views on social welfare more congenial than those held by Bill Clinton.

And there it is. Nixon was predecessor to a political group known today as the neo-conservatives. Typical of political doublespeak, there is nothing conservative about a neo-con. Nixon and both Bushes were/are global socialist in economic and political alignment. A better name for them might be liberal hawks.

I expect Nixon's image will continue to be "reformed" over time as the left gets past the context of its visceral hatred for everything Republican and starts realizing Nixon did more for their agenda than any of his successors until the Bushes.