“There was no bigger anti-commie in politics than Richard Nixon.”
Exactly! The Liberals/”commies”/”watermelons”, i.e. Democrats, the MSM and Acadmia have hated and will continue to hate Nixon because of his attacks on Communist influence in America.
A couple of interesting articles:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html The Trials of Alger Hiss: A Commentary
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/progjfk2.htm The Kennedys and McCarthyism