Exactly right IMO. Nixon was forced into the Democrats' socialist regulatory agenda by a Democrat Congress. He could only get what he wanted by signing legislation they wanted. The same thing happened to Reagan when he re-built the military. His famous "deficits," however, created by massive social spending by Democrats in Congress, came back to bite the Dems. With the budget so deep in deficit they were't able to spend like drunken sailors for quite a few years.
Conservatives (if the term truly has any meaning) lose over and over because they can't agree on what day it is and because they never stay focused on maintaining a veto-proof Republican majority in Congress. We can't advance a real agenda even with a Republican President because we have to make too many side deals with Democrats, even in matters having to do with the very survival of the nation. Don't listen to what Dasch-hole says, watch what he and his henchmen do!