He didn t want to confront this. He ran for 20 years as an elder statesman. He didn t want that undermined while he was still around. Other litigation continues over compensation to the Nixon estate for public confiscation of his records. They are now housed at the National Archives annex in College Park under a provision of the 1974 law saying they must be kept in the Washington, D.C., area.
History has a way of diminishing details.
Most presidents are remembered for just one thing. Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Warren Harding and Teapot Dome.