I agree, all that contributed to Nixon's election. I do think his election was a repudiation of the Great Society as well, but also have to agree Nixon did almost nothing to dismantle it. If anything, he reinforced it and made things worse with economic bungles like price controls. While he viewed himself as a conservative, he seemed to have an incoherent philosophy of government.
Nixon was a New Deal liberal of a sort; when asked by David Frost about his intellectual role models or whatever, included Adlai Stevenson in his list. Pat Buchanan claimed that Nixon gave a thumbs-down sign when asked by PB what the long term prospects for Israel were — and yet Nixon ordered “anything that will fly” to airlift crucial supplies, and at least once (just to show off) a whole tank. The US out-airlifted the USSR during the 1973 war, despite having to fly much farther and (mostly) over open ocean.
OPECs reaction to US support for Israel — and the terrible defeat of pan-Arab pan-Moslem forces — was to quadruple and even quintuple the price of crude. The resulting worldwide economic cratering took years to recover from. Nixon’s “phases” and Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” were symbolic rather than substantive.
And the inflation from the embargo until Ford left office in 1977 were the Good Ol’ Days compared with the disaster of Jimmy Carter’s administration, with the 20 per cent interest rate peak, his “moral equivalent of war” energy speech, in which he set heavy crude exploitation and gasoline rationing as needed goals.
And then the Iranians seized the hostages.
Nixon’s foreign policy was carried out skillfully, and largely consisted of cleaning up LBJ’s mess. His trip to China was a master stroke. Detente with the USSR helped pave the way for the downfall of the it. Nixon’s China policy will eventually lead to the same end for the PRC.
Nixon wasn’t incoherent, merely eccentric and pragmatic (nothing is more eccentric than a pragmatic eccentric). :’)