No. Nixon was more conservative and more honest than Mitt.
Nixon did absorb Goldwater’s people into his organization to be sure, but his foreign policy of talking with Communists from Vietnam to China and the Soviet Union and cutting deals with I remember with disgust.
Nixon’s FCC shut down a radio preacher’s station on Fairness Doctrine grounds after he led marches for military victory in the Vietnam War.
The “opening up” of China is coming back to bite us.
There was nothing “conservative” about the EPA and OSHA which Nixon created with his signature.
Former Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis Lemay believes his targeting by the IRS during Nixon’s presidency was because he ran as George Wallace’s third party running mate in 1968.
When the former White House counsel for Nixon, Charles Colson, called the “hatchet man” of the administration went to jail over Watergate he wrote many letters of apology to those he wronged.