Nixon has had many pluses and minuses during his career. Plus, he exposed Alger Hiss and helped get him convicted. This helped him rise to the vice presidency. Plus, after LBJ was giving Vietnam away, Nixon tried to win it and developed a more aggressive policy in rules of engagement. Plus, he appointed Rehnquist to be CJ. I can't think of too many other pluses and I was in middle and high school during his terms. However, I find more minuses. He hired Kissinger to be Secretary of State. He recognized Red China and visited them 50 years ago this week as another anon posted. He signed the EPA into law which became a big tool for violating property rights. He mandated an unconstitutional wage freeze in an effort to stop inflation. He appointed Ford, who helped cover up info on the Kennedy assignation, to be his VP after Agnew resigned. He started a troop withdrawal from Vietnam before the job was done in 72 to get more votes in his reelection. He let the Ds and the media force him to resign after winning in a landslide just 2 years earlier. This allowed the Ds to betray our troops by letting Vietnam go after he was gone.

I worked in MI from 78 to 81. Some people who were around for the 72 election say his "plumbers" broke into Watergate to get proof on the Ds regarding prostitution and sex trafficking including minors. They failed in this mission and that Nixon threw them under the bus in time. I have no source on this other than what my colleagues in MI told me in 1979.

I make you the jury. Was Nixon a white hat or a black hat?