"I suggest you pay close attention to the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave during the Nixon years,"
I wrote in Reagan in 1972 and never voted for Nixon.
But Reagan was still a liberal when Nixon was chasing communists out of government and we owe him a lot. It was very tought to fight the tide of liberalism/socialism/communism back then and sure, Nixon made concessions to get elected. But knew the big picture and that was that communists had killed 90 million in the prior 60 years and that they were on the verge of killing another 10 million. And that the marxist usefull idiots were keeping the public blind to this genocide in the hopes of taking over the world. Don't forget that Greece, Italy, France were on the verge of communist takeover and that the Russians had just stolen the secrets for the bomb.
This was a very scary time and Nixon will come to be known as a real American Hero.
I agree, what Nixon did in the fight against communism makes him a national hero. However, it does NOT make him a fiscal conservative.