Nixon’s greatest crime was beating McGovern in a 49 state landslide. No one in the lamestream media knew anyone who voted for him so of course he had to be punished.
According to the stinking Commies ( and yes, there really were card carrying Commies in California when this happened! ), "FELLOW TRAVELERS", and Dems, it was when Nixon beat Helen Gahagan Douglas, for the Senate seat! He had sent out flyers, about her, printed on, *gasp*, pink paper ( and yes, she was a damned "PINKO"! )in 1950! And then, OH THE HORROR, he served on the Senate committee that investigated Alger Hiss!
All of the above is what started the decades long, unrelenting, NIXON hatred and the attempts to bring him down!