I adored Nixon and cried when I watched him get into the helicopter for the last time. Visited his library and got an autographed copy of one of his books. Was deeply impressed by his foreign policy vision and watched Watergate religiously on the edge of my seat. Adored G. Gordon Liddy and passed out copies of his book Will to everyone I knew.
Worked for him in my last year of high school, that is, for 3 local Republicans in Chicago. Only Republican in a Catholic girls’ high school that was gung ho for Kennedy. Got invited to a candidate’s banquet and that year I had grandmother vote straight Republican except for those 3. The trick, I had learned, was never to meet a candidate in person.
He’s still my favorite, next to Trump. It was probably that I had more time free then to concentrate on him. I was busier when Reagan came along and was turned off by Nancy so never paid Reagan as much attention as he deserved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gl84ilI8Do&t=904s
Above is a youtube with Nixon speaking to students at Oxford. About a 5 minute speech, and one and a quarter hours of answering questions. No notes. It shows his humor pretty well too. And he is very forth-coming.
He has always been one of my favorites. I have a “Nixon Now” and a President Nixon, Now More than Ever button on my bulletin board.
Some of the stuff he did has been used by the liberals to grow government and regulations. But stuff like OSHA and the EPA were needed at the time.
Heck - probably every government thing was “needed” at the time, but then gets hijacked.