Nixon did a lot of good for the nation but had his own faults especially with domestic policy. As we know, he resigned shortly after winning a landslide victory due to Watergate. Watergate was a leftist media created event, much like the Plame affair of more recent times. So I would say Nixon, W (first term only), then Bush Sr. None of the three measured up to Reagan in all aspects.
A not unreasonable ranking. What if you included both Nixon terms and both Bush terms?
Nixon wasn’t a conservative. Nixon introduced price controls. Nixon normalised relations with China. Nixon handled the end of the vietnam war very badly as he cowtowed to the N Vietnamese. Nixon was way to loyal to his underlings and allowed scandals to blow out of proportion(sound familiar) Nixon got paranoid and overestimated the effect of the left on the political landscape evidenced by the fact that Reagan won a conservative landslide after a Nixon sponsored Ford handoff and the 4 yr Carter administration. Delroy shouldn’t have called Bush the republican party’s Carter. He should have called Bush the republican party’s Nixon.