Editing Richard Nixon (section)

==Other villainy==
*His administration spearheaded [[Operation Condor]], a multi-year CIA-backed campaign of [[state terrorism]] and political oppression that established multiple right-wing [[military dictatorship]]s in South America. Also involved was [[Henry Kissinger]], who served in the Nixon Administration as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
*He financed the 1973 Chilean coup d'état which allowed Augusto Pinochet to seize power in Chile.
*Nixon was an avowed [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]] who strongly disliked Jews, and was a believer in the conspiracy theory that Jews were planning to take over the government.
*He has shown racism towards African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians and was also [[Homophobia|homophobic]].
*He was responsible for the creation of the Southern Strategy - a political strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.
*He launched the War on Drugs, which has actually caused more problems than it has solved.
*He supported [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]] in their invasion of Laos.
*While he withdrew some American troops from Vietnam, he needlessly extended the [[Vietnam War]] instead of ending it by talking the president of South Vietnam out of negotiating with North Vietnam, as he needed the war to continue so that he could run for president; therefore, breaking his promise to end the war.
*Nominated two segregationists to the Supreme Court. Both men were so unashamedly racist that both Democrats and Republicans refused to vote on them.
*He had a [[Anti-Catholicism|strong dislike of the Catholic Church]].
*He also showed traits of [[misogyny]] and stated that he didn't think women should work in government because they were too "erratic and emotional".
*He committed [[war crimes]] during the Vietnam War by ordering Henry Kissinger to carry out an illegal bombing campaign against Cambodia and Laos in order to eliminate North Vietnamese leadership (which would ultimately lead to the [[Kent State shootings]], and Cambodia becoming a failed state, let alone the deaths of over 100,000 innocent Cambodian citizens).
*At Henry Kissinger's advice, he suppressed reports of the [[1971 Bangladesh Genocide]] in order to preserve the USA's alliance with Pakistan.
**He also supplied the [[Yahya Khan]]-lead government with weapons during the genocide against the wishes of Congress, and said that he didn't care about the genocide because [[Islamophobia|"They're just a bunch of brown goddamn Muslims."]]
*Nixon had links with several [[organized crime]] gangs, accepting millions of dollars in campaign donations to release [[Mafia]]-affiliated union leader [[Jimmy Hoffa]] from prison. Mob boss [[Mickey Cohen]] is also believed to have helped Nixon to launch his political career in 1946.
*Under his administration, the Justice Department initiated a crackdown on criticism of the government. Attorney General [[John N. Mitchell]] oversaw the prosecution of numerous anti-government protestors, most infamously the Chicago Seven. He also allowed the FBI's [[COINTELPRO]] program to continue and expanded Operation CHAOS, an illegal surveillance program targeting anti-government activists.