Please do NOT smear Mr. Nixon, by using that lefty slur. I bet that you don’t even know WHY they called him that. :-(
He was dishonest, and very liberal in a lot of ways. I personally know he staged an “assault” on his bus right before the 1970 election by having it deliberately driven into a crowd people outside of an event in San Jose. There was no riot. Nixon came out of the event, stood on top of a car and flashed his double V signs at a crowd that was a mix of demonstrators, laid off aerospace workers and just people there with their kids hoping to see the president. Then he got on the bus, the cops formed a flying wedge in front and charged directly into the thickest part of the crowd with no warning or order to move. The next day all the media was full of the story that “rioters” tried to storm his bus amid a “hail of rocks and bottles”, complete with photos of his bus surrounded by a crowd. There was no hail of rocks and bottles, people were mostly just trying to get out of the way. It was totally staged.
Nixon also gave us among other things the EPA, wage and price controls, and the War on Drugs. And then there was that little coverup thingy.
Just to clarify, Nixon got into the presidential limo, with the press buy behind. Then they drove both through the crowd.