He may have made certain subsequent Presidents more prone to keeping fewer records (and recordings) of Oval Office events....but if the Clinton Administration is any barometer....the operation of a criminal enterprise out of the Oval Office had actually been perfected, post Watergate,....not erradicated.
And if this was about abuse of power in the Office of the Preidency...then, again, Nixon was a piker when stacked up against his predecessor.
If this was about Nixon, as a person, and deposing him as President...well then, Woodward and Bernstein, hand in hand with Feldt, should take a bow....
And then they should survey the legacy of their toppling of Nixon:
Pressures brought to bear in Washington detracted from Nixon's ability to obtain a better peace at the end of the Kennedy/Johnson war in Southeast Asia....and the rest of the dominoes fell with the rise of the Pathet Lao and Kmeher Rouge.
(The Plain of Jars would more than likely be remembered differently today had Nixon not been hounded from office.)
There is no way Gerry Ford (a mere caretaker for the end of Nixon's term, but a sentimental favorite President of mine for stepping in to steer the nation through that turbulent time. He did it abely, if not well) would ever have run for President except from the office of the President....and so, Carter was ushered in as President....a man who otherwise would have been a footnote in the history books of Georgia as just one more mediocre former Governor set the stage for:
The Islamic revolution in Iran
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (with its "domino effect" in the rise of the Taliban)
The Camp David accords that were direct causation of the assasination of Anwar Sadat
The ceding of the Panama Canal to the Chinese! (If it was only about lease payments to the Panamanian government, then why didn't we offer that, as opposed to giving control of the canal away? Only Carter could say!)
Then there was hyper inflation and stagnant economy of the late 70's....concurrent (not necessarily for reasons of causation, although it is possibly linked) with the draw down in America's armed forces.
("All for the want of a nail on the shoe of a horse", as the rhyme goes....)
And so, let us take pause to cheer these champions of America....those who were the catalysts of such earth shattering change for the worse that brought us through tumult to a time when, not tens, but hundreds of FBI files could find their way mysteriously to the office of the Preisident...and nothing is said in the press, for this is not Nixon...and to a time when criminal enterprises and purjury are commonplace in the Oval Office...but these do not "rise to the level of impeachment".
Yes...a true man of greatmess is Mr. Feldt.
He should rank right up there with Gavrilo Princip, in history, for all of the supposed change and good was accomplished by his famous act.
It turns out that "Deep Throat" was a petulent little man who destroyed a presidency because he was passed over for a promotion, and that his immediate family is just as selfish as he was. It's no surprise that this little creep is now lionized by the mainstream media.