James MacGregor Burns observed of Nixon, “How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic President, so brilliant and so morally lacking?”
George McGovern, Nixon’s former opponent, commented in 1983, “President Nixon probably had a more practical approach to the two superpowers, China and the Soviet Union, than any other president since World War II….I think, with the exception of his inexcusable continuation of the war in Vietnam, Nixon really will get high marks in history.”
