Kissinger got all that blood on his hands with Operation Condor in the Gerald Ford administration and his subsequent career being a State Department functionary for blood drinkers. He is an irredeemably evil person, but he did all that after Nixon.

The more I have read about Nixon, the more I understand why clowns like Chomsky praise him as the last president who wasn't a sellout. What kind of conservative anticommunist establishes diplomatic relations with China, pulls out of Vietnam, and founds OSHA and the EPA? Nixon is still responsible for the horrendous bombing campaign of Vietnam, but it's not known how much of that was actually a part of his interest. Before he assumed the presidency, Nixon spoke privately about the importance of leaving Vietnam in order to engender more goodwill from China. It's possible that the bloodbath that he had a hand in was largely an appeasement of the conservative elements in the State Department, media, party, and his base.

Of course, Nixon did the War on Drugs for explicitly racist reasons, and the Second Wounded Knee at the Pine Ridge Reservation happened under his watch, and he was responsible for a host of other things.

I know defending Nixon is :cringe: but he deserves to be reevaluated.