Well he was nicer to dead people than you.
In a 1994 obituary for Nixon, Thompson called him "a liar, a quitter and a bastard. A cheap crook and a merciless war criminal."
Don't bet on it. When former President Nixon died, HST wrote this:
"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open- sewage canals..."