Like Goldwater and Reagan, Nixon was a Westerner or West Coaster (CA is an extension of the North, or East coast) to unite the country in all four directions then. In the last half a century, the Southern states became a majority GOP by Nixon's "southern strategy" to get them from not being dominated by the party of Dixie: the Democrats, for a century after the Confederacy's defeat in the civil war. Richard Nixon was raised a Quaker in the L.A. area town of Whittier and as a Los Angeles County attorney, he defended minority clients in the 1940s when his clients turned to Nixon to have their civil rights protected: i.e. African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Japanese-Americans and Jewish-Americans.
I was never aware of a single Quaker meeting house in Southern California when I grew up there. I seriously doubt that there was a single one. Like I wrote, Quakers were a very rare breed by the 20th century. Most had had their lands confiscated during the American Revolution, from what I've heard and read...and run off to Canada... as they assisted the wounded for both sides of the conflict and refused to pay a war tax...being the avowed pacifists they were. As I have written a number of times before, my own ancestor became a Free Quaker and fought in the Revolution for the Virginia Regiment, they fought in the Civil War as well... and not for the North... but were anti slavery, so it was an issue of "States' rights" with them. What I did just only recently learn since I last wrote anything of it is that the Rev. War veteran's mother, my 7 x's great grandmother, was a Mennonite,. Her father was Dutch, and I've mentioned before about the Mennonites that fought despite the religion being avowed pacifist, about the Mennonite Bishop, Christian Funk, and the 52 that took up arms at his urging and became forever more known as the "Funkites"... apparently my Quaker ancestor, of a Mennonite mother, heard on of the Bishop Funk's sermons as well... and thus why He chose to take up arms.
I also learned, just two evenings ago, that the Hough's [my mother was a Hough] that came to Pennsylvania in 1683 [Richard Hough {"The first settler of Bucks County"} was a close, intimate, friend of Wm. Penn's] had emigrated to England from Holland in around 1600, thus I am far more Dutch that I had thought before, and I wasn't aware of any Dutch until recently as I just wrote. In addition, I've since learned the makeup of my DNA and have learned that I am multi racial a combination of White, Black, Red, and Yellow ancestry... the "Mongolian DNA" was a complete surprise... predominately White, yes, but still a racial mix of at least four of the five possible. Scientists are still unable to discern most DNA that originated with the "Brown" race, [that which is alleged to have originated on the lost continent of Lemuria, or Oz, as some will call it, and the same for much of that of the Red race as not enough of that race have had their DNA analyzed at this time. Thus I likely have more Red racial DNA than was stated in the analysis. Both the Black and Red racial DNA was reported to be about 0.75%, the Mongolian considerably higher...and a great deal...far more than most people...Neanderthal DNA... which was another complete surprise as I had thought they were all long extinct and apparently so did most all scientists, until just this past decade, i'm told. Another surprise is that geneticists currently consider the Neanderthals to be genetically superior to Homo Sapiens... but there are, allegedly, no pure Neanderthals left in existence... at least all of this is the present scientific opinion/conclusion..delusion, or what have you... as I think we all know how those "conclusions" are about as lasting as last years snowfall.]
It has been "hip" to bash Nixon since the 1970's...we have the media to thank for that...while it wasn't all owned by a select few then as it is now, most of it was owned by people of a certain religious affiliation and Nixon greatly offended them when it was revealed on those "tapes" that he said the words "those Jewish bastards"... that was Nixon's greatest mistake, politically... both saying that and not getting rid of that tape once he had... otherwise it's likely that He may have finished his term in office... not accounting for how the Watergate incident may have proceeded to unfold.
Had Nixon finished his term, we wouldn't have had Gerald Ford as president and a Rockefeller as V.P. and Ronald Reagan might have very well been passed over come 1982 and we wouldn't have had the Bush's in office?
A lot of conjecture, for sure.. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda [C.W.S.]
Goldwater wanted to nuke the N. Vietnamese [Goldwater Jr. was the congressman for my hometown and surrounding areas... until He got busted for cocaine possession... {Q. How come Dubya got away with that s***...and such to the degree of abuse of which left him in a mental state as such He is?... not to mention being awol from the National Guard? A. family $$$$}]
There has been far more political intrigue that harmed Americans by previous presidents that history, as it is presently taught in schools, will mention or even allow to be alluded to. Roosevelt is said to have known beforehand of the Japanese intent to bomb Pearl Harbor... deliberately enticed it by having all those battleships there at the same time. The Spanish American war was one of purpose on false pretenses... the battleship Maine blew up because of faulty design... it was all about acquisition of Spanish territories in the New World and the Pacific... Lincoln committed many war crimes, including hiring the Russian navy to help blockade Southern ports for an over extended Union Navy...which was illegal by the Constitution... the Alaska purchase was a cover-up as to wjy the Russians were given all those millions in U.S. dollars ...not to mention He violated States rights to begin with... Texas was never ratified as a State by Congress... still hasn't been to this day. It was a few votes shy at the outbreak of the Civil War and Texas, upon entering an agreement to become a State in the Union from being its own Republic, put a stipulation in the agreement that it could leave the Union at any time for any reason it found to be fit. Thus Texas is an independent nation illegally occupied by the United States since April 1865.
There is a lot of dark history of the U.S.A. that isn't taught in schools...
...and what do you believe hit the Pentagon on 9/11 and what cause building 9 W.T.C. to collapse...and the twin towers too, for that matter? ...and how about all those W.M.D.'s Iraq was said to have had?
...and why did we invade Iraq in the first place when all the alleged hi-jackers were supposedly Saudi's?
...not to mention how among you Americans, my fellow Yanks, actually believes a plane full of Americans is going to allow a few, all too obvious, foreigners take over a jet airplane with box-cutters... WITH BOX CUTTERS, FOR CHRIZESAKES...!?!?!?
If it was a plane full of girl scouts maybe...but even that is somewhat unlikely.... maybe if they were all under 10 years old.
What really peeves me, is that no investigation into all of the discrepancies in the official gov't explanation for 9/11 was ever made yet the Democrats spent so much time and energy the last four years alleging there was something amiss with Trump getting elected... .not even one single discrepancy.
There ought to be a Congressional Medal for Cowardice... and it should be awarded to every member of the U.S. congress that was or has presently been in office since 2002... with the possible exceptions of Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard... imho.
That "swamp" needs more than just draining...it needs to be permanently filled in.