Republican · 1969–1974
Richard Nixon
Created the EPA, imposed wage controls, opened China, ran on law and order, and resigned over Watergate.
Richard Nixon was president 1969–1974. The party color on the chart is Republican. Early presidents are not forced into today’s party names. The placement note is: Created the EPA, imposed wage controls, opened China, ran on law and order, and resigned over Watergate.
The dot is economics +6 and authority +42. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Color and place are allowed to disagree. Theodore Roosevelt sits left of Grover Cleveland on economics.
What was said, and what the administration did, are filed separately. Said: Law and order, peace with honor, and a silent majority against the cultural left. Done: The EPA, wage controls, China, a draft ended — and Watergate. The domestic record is more regulatory than the campaign. Where those two sentences pull apart, the dot follows the governing record, not the slogan.
The nearest other presidents on these two numbers are Andrew Johnson (1865–1869, +6 / +44) and James K. Polk (1845–1849, +12 / +38). A small distance can join people who would have disliked each other. The chart is a compression, not a claim that they were alike.
Presidents are not placed with the Voteview roll-call score used for the current Congress. Two axes cannot carry a war, a court, a tariff, and a civil-rights record as separate facts.