Not at all! Nixon was dealt a hard hand upon entering office in 1969, and he handled it well IMO.
Re Kissinger inciting Nixon on the Pentagon Papers -- A.J. Langguth, former Saigon bureau chief for the NY Times, discusses it in his book "Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975." pp 587 onward:
"Kissinger knew that Nixon considered his young aides avid leakers of questionable loyalty. ... [Kissinger] must prove his fealty by becoming even more implacable than his president. At the 7:30 a.m. staff meeting on Monday [following Sunday NY Times first publication of excerpts from the Pentagon Papers], Haldeman, Ehrlichmann and the others watched a volcanic performance as Kissinger shouted, waved his arms, pounded his fist and cried for vengeance.
"'No foreign country will ever trust us again,' he declaimed. 'We might just as well turn it all over to the Soviets and get it over with.'
"Kissinger took his fury to the Oval Office and prodded Nixon by pushing a reliable button. If he did nothing, Kissinger warned him, 'it shows that you're weak, Mr. President.' ... By the time the rant had ended, Nixon was boiling."
I like Langguth's book.
“’No foreign country will ever trust us again,’ he declaimed.
And Kissinger was right to an extent. When the south was finally overrun due to our lack of support - a lasting image on how the world viewed America was a helicopter on a roof with a long line of people waiting to get on and flee.