Why was Nixon hated so much..?

Question

before Watergate..Because I know that pissed alot of people off..

Answer 1

He is a known criminal, as an American I have the right to distance myself from criminals.

Answer 2

I agree with gregorym----Nixon was a good president and accomplished good things for this nation. Unfortunately, it only takes 1 bad incident to label a president because it is in our nature to dwell upon the negative rather than the positive. In my opinion, he did the right thing pertaining to Watergate, accepted the responsibility like a man, did not "ratt" or take down anyone else unnecessarily, did not waste tax payers' dollars (like Bill Clinton did), whether he did or did not have knowledge of the situation. That is a true leadership quality to me. That is a threat for corrupt politicians and we all know that war is a money making industry. You take that out of the equation and it inevitably upsets people.

Answer 3

Because people only see his presidency through Watergate, and don't look at the many great things he did.

Like a new Quarterback who takes a 2-14 team and takes them to the superbowl the next year. THen throws a pick at the last second. They remember the pick, not the season.

Answer 4

A lot of Libs could finally take the gloves off about the Vietnam War because finally it wasn't their guy who was running it. It was Nixon, after all, who ultimately got us out of the war and who ended the draft, but they hated him for it. I really think their problem was that when you push away all the BS, the facts are that their guys got us into Vietnam and their opponents got us out.

Also, they didn't like his shifty eyes or his secretive and odd personality. People don't like people who are different. When the difference is race, the guy they don't like if a victim. When it's that they don't like your mannerisms, you just have to deal with it. Nixon didn't deal with it.

He was also a lot more open about things - it's not that he had an enemies' list or had people around him like John Segretti that would pull crap - - they all do that - - it's that he was more open about it. The Left have allies in the press that do these things for them - nobody on the Left needed to come up with a Swiftboat-type tactic against Bush because Dan Rather was already at it with his "documents."

That said, my problem with Nixon is that he caved to the Left way too often. He should never have agreed to price controls and he should never have declared "we're all Keynesians here."

Answer 5

Simple. Have you ever heard of HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee)? Richard Nixon was head of that. HUAC rooted out a large number of communist spies working for the Soviet Union in the late 40's and into the 50's. One major spy was a Roosevelt and Truman aid named Alger Hiss. Hiss was convicted of lying to Congress, and exposed the Democrats soft position on the Soviet Union.

Imagine if it was discovered that Karl Rove or Dick Morris (Clinton Advisor) were secretly a member of Al Queda. Imagine the uproar that would cause.

The Democrats never forgave Nixon for that.

Answer 6

He was secretive and paternalistic. Didn't dislike him more than any other politician at the time though until after Watergate. He was smart and did good things but then completely went off the deep end with the whole Watergate coverup.

Answer 7

Becuse the birth of the type of media (we still have today) enforce thier oppinions instead of news.

They hated the Veitnam war and Nixon with a passion, and bashed him almost non-stop.

Watergate overshadowes all the great things,and good things he did in his years in office, and most conentrait purely on watergate.

Answer 8

He was a Republican & all Republicans are hated by non-Republicans. When Nixon showed weakness, it was like blood in the water to a school of sharks. Even other Republicans turned on him, and the political cannibals within his own party hung him out to dry.

Answer 9

It was primarily because of the war in Viet Nam which kept dragging on. It was a very unpopular war and one of Nixon's campaign promises was to stop it.

Answer 10

He was Republican. The liberal media hated his guts. He was continously slandered and lied about before watergate, just like George Bush except Bush really isn't a crook.

Answer 11

All conservatives are hated because they have core believes. Liberals have no core believes except taxing the rich into oblivion.