Richard Nixon: Evaluation Nixon's presidency today is best known not for its innovative foreign policies or liberal domestic programs but only for the president's involvement in the Watergate scandal.  While Nixon deserves approbation for the activities of the Committee to Reelect the President, he also deserves applause for his other actions.  In Vietnam, he avoided capitulation and dishonor; in China, he allowed the People's Republic to rejoin the community of nations; in Moscow, he began the long process of disarmament talks that have slashed nuclear arsenals.  To remember him simply as the instigator of a "second-rate burglary" is shameful, to say the least.       T. Roosevelt           Wilson       F. Roosevelt          Truman              Eisenhower             Kennedy       Johnson          Nixon          Philosophy          Incidents          Advisers          Evaluation          Citations       Carter               Reagan       Bush

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