Although Nixon can certainly be criticized as too Liberal, he was simply NOT a bad president. He was a good man, with good foreign policy and with an economic policy that was (unfortunately) in step with his times. And that Watergate thing — at this point, after Clinton, after Obama, after Biden — how can anyone look at Nixon as an immoral man or as a crook? The guy was a boy scout next to our more recent presidents and Watergate was a great big nothing.
Nixon’s worst foreign policy decision was going to China.
Nixon’s great error was taking the dollar off the gold standard.