As an adult, I worked on both of Mr. Nixon's two winning presidential campaigns in NYC and did got to the Inaugural Balls.
Mr. Nixon was NOT crooked/corrupt in ANY way, shape, manner, nor form! He was clean as a whistle and yes, a choir boy! And he was only a teensy bit less of the old "WHITE GLOVE" uber GOP GENTLEMAN.
Go look up THE CHECKERS speech and you'll find out the disgusting genesis of why he was and you imagine that he was "a crook"; which is a damned LIE!
All he said was that hush money could be arranged for Liddy etc., but he didn’t say he would raise the money. Goldwater and Hugh Scott joined to sabotage him.