Nixon was driven out of office by the progressive MSM. He resigned in the best interest of the Nation and he did not leave America as a socialist collective nanny state.
I was a mature adult during Richard Nixon's Presidency. Here are results during that Presidency:
Vietnam War, begun by John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, ended.
US relations with China restored.
Environmental Protection Act passed.
Federal grants, without strings or micromanagement, granted to applicant jurisdictions.
United States astronauts circled, then landed, on the Moon.
Don't know about federal budget and taxes, but surely could not have been worse than LBJ.
Richard Nixon was EASILY one of the most competent Presidents in my lifetime (which began with FDR). So much for Media Power and revisionist perspectives presented to ingenuous progeny.
We live in the MATRIX.
You left out wage and price controls and year long "daylight savings time". The best you can say about Nixon is that he was not as bad as the others.