I pretty much despised Nixon, and Agnew, his corrupt VEEP as well. Nixon promised a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam. We know from his tapes that Nixon disliked Blacks and Jews as well. But he did less harm internally than did the band og thugs and thieves who trotted old Reagan up and used him as everyone's kindly old grandfather while the mongered wars, destroyed the S&L's and did a major clusterfuck on Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
My college is right near the Opa Locka Airport, where they were deploying all sorts of crap to Salvador to keep the peasantry in like with death squads, assassination of nuns and such. The AC at the college was broken, and we had to prop a fan in the classroom door, From 8AM to 7PM, there was a USAF cargo plane taking off every 20 minutes.
In Guatemala, the government of Efrain Rios Montt, who was a good buddy of Reagan and some sort of holy roller, was exterminating the various Maya tribes so they could plunder the oil. They have found enough evidence to prosecute the old bastard, but for some reason it is going slowly.