Richard Nixon was guilty of two dreadful sins while president. Neither had the slightest connection with Watergate. Both daily affect the Western world almost five decades after he left the White House.
Nixon’s first sin was his kowtowing to communist China, which by the early 1970s had already eliminated (according to the most cautious statistics available) 15 million Chinese.
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