Yeah, but Nixon did what he had to do in light of the times. Any poll-watching dork could have done most of it - indeed, would have. Watergate saved the bastard! If his tenure had survived the 1973-4 downturn, what standing he has in the eyes of yer average lefty nostalgia-buff would be very different. He'd've had to be the one to do the bidding of the desperate (if merger-mania-rejuvenated) finance sector, the feral right-wing think-tanks and the concomitant Mt Pelerin assault on economic orthodoxy, rather than messrs Peanuts and Raygun.
'Night all, Rob.