Even Noam Chomsky calls Nixon, "the last liberal president." Check out what Nixon actually did. He may have pretended to be something he wasn't, which was soft on communism and creating social programs that LBJ couldn't stomach. Under Nixon, social program spending exceeded defense spending for the first time. Nixon started automatic cost-of-living increases for Social Security and Welfare. He established OSHA, the EPA, the EEOA, Title IX, affirmative action, etc. More federal regulations were created under him than any other president. The Federal Register grew 121% under Nixon, after only growing 19% under Johnson. President Reagan found Nixon's administrative creations were the biggest impediment to what he was trying to do.
Let's face it, if Nixon had a 'D' after his name you'd be railing against him as perhaps the most leftist president we've had. But you are defending what he did to our country, because supposedly he was a Republican?