Yep. Ever since the Pumpkin Papers, the Left has had its knives out for Nixon.
Nixon was flawed in many respects, but was he more flawed than Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and most of all, LBJ?
I take issue with his creation of the EPA, and his use of price controls, but his approval of the Linebacker II campaign in 1972 with the use of mining, and B-52 strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong makes up for much of that in my book.
Nixon was the first real Presidential victim of the Leftist Media who painted him in the worst light they could no matter what, and they did it monolithically.
They never forgave him for his support of Whittaker Chambers.
Nixon’s worst long term impact was further empowering Federal Employee Unions.... This was also JFK’s worst move for the republic.
You can be a public servant, or a union member... you cannot be both.
The left thought they had rid themselves of Nixon when Kennedy was elected. When he successfully resurrected his political career they felt they HAD to get him.
Defending a former spy who became disillusioned with Stalin and communism and testified before Congress meant they HAD to take him out. No one carries a grudge like a leftist.
To be honest the EPA quickly outgrew it’s original intent. Something was needed but the EPA was probably a bit too much.
Mining Haiphong and the B-52 bombings were what brought the North to the table.
Ironically the bombing campaign was more successful than we knew. Sometime in the 1980’s a North Vietnamese official admitted that another three months of bombing and the South could have walked into Hanoi unopposed. The Norths economy and society in general was in tatters.