HE WAS NOT A CROOK

use of the IRS against political enemies...

As I recall, that's not true. He did "suggest" it, but it was declined and he never pushed it further. Do you have some record to the contrary? It's entirely possible I missed it, as I've never much cared about Nixon.

I’ve never heard that Reagan said anything about Nixon much less loathed him. Reagan most likely did not loath anyone.

Only a few years ago, Nixon's library released some tapes of Nixon talking to Kissinger about Reagan, and how Reagan had been very hostile towards him, and how Nixon has always heard that Reagan was a warm and friendly guy, but he didn't see it, or Reagan simply wasn't nice to him.

Kissinger basically confirmed in that same conversation that Reagan simply doesn't like him.

Alexander Haig, after the tapes came, did state that Reagan did "loathe" nixon.

He repeated that claim again when Mark Felt revealed himself to be deep throat, and noted that Reagan pardoned Felt, and that the pardon was a sort of slap in the face to nixon (this was unrelated to Felt being deep throat, and had to do with something else that Felt and another agent did for the government).

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