Pence - Agnew - had resigned and Ford - Trump's Paul Ryan - was President. I'd rather Ryan than Pence. I'd rather Nixon than Trump. Other than that it was all the same. Except Nixon's accomplishments in office:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/richard-m-nixon/
"His accomplishments while in office included revenue sharing, the end of the draft, new anticrime laws, and a broad environmental program. As he had promised, he appointed Justices of conservative philosophy to the Supreme Court (not so good). One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.
Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and Syria.
In his 1972 bid for office, Nixon defeated Democratic candidate George McGovern by one of the widest margins on record.
Within a few months, his administration was embattled over the so-called “Watergate” scandal, stemming from a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. The break-in was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation.
As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned in 1973. Nixon nominated, and Congress approved, House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as Vice President.
Faced with what seemed almost certain impeachment, Nixon announced on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin “that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”
In his last years, Nixon gained praise as an elder statesman. By the time of his death on April 22, 1994, he had written numerous books on his experiences in public life and on foreign policy."
He also worked with Ted Kennedy on Universal Health-care, he froze prices, had a bank holiday, started the EPA, supported the ERA, signed the Voting Rights Amendment, not traditional Republican stances. Took on OPEC and with the help of Saddam Hussein - for which Congress gave Saddam some sort of award. He didn't steal either of his elections.
Trump? Bupkis. Tax "reform".
Nixon was more progressive than Trump, Ford was no Pence, and other than all of the above, I guess it really was all the same.
For the record - I voted for McGovern and Carter. And danced a little jig when Nixon resigned.
I'm not supporting Nixon in any way. We were never an eyeblink from nuclear war with Nixon and Ford wasn't taking his cues from the divinity as Pence claims he does directly. Nixon wanted universal healthcare and worked in a bipartisan way towards it, Trump literally doesn't care if you live or die. I just don't see the similarities you do past a President leaving office early and a vice-President stepping in, which describes Kennedy/ Johnson, too.
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