was nixon a good president despite watergate
Comments. When Richard Nixon resigned the Presidency of the United States over Watergate in 1974 he was widely reviled as the worst ever occupant of the White House. But perceptions of his record have been changing. hundred years after his birth, it is time to reassess the legacy of the disgraced US president Richard Nixon. A divisive personality: since Watergate, many Americans regard Richard Milhous Nixon as their worst president, yet there is still a substantial fan club Photo: AP. By Jonathan Aitken. 7:44PM GMT 04 Jan 2013.