It was Nixon again after 1968; throughout his presidency, he courted liberals, seeking détente with the Soviet communists and opening relations with “Red” China, and, far from unwinding the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, adding new government programs of his own. Conservatives stuck by Nixon on the Vietnam War and took his side against the growing left and the antiwar movement, but they had long since stopped regarding him as one of them.
