>As another note not yet sounded in this discussion, Gary
>Wills (in _Nixon_Agonistes_, I believe) made him out to be
>some kind of liberal.
Yes, the last liberal, in fact, no relation to Katha Pollitt's Last Marxist (Paul Mattick Jr). As I remember Wills's argument, Nixon believed in meritocracy, which to work right requires the proverbial level playing field.
Doug