Richard Nixon

Richard Reeves’ column on Richard Nixon’s personal goals (Commentary, Aug. 9) conjures up the kind of sentimental hogwash that characterized Nixon’s persona. In our family there never will be any form of revisionist history conveyed to our children about his presidency. He remains one of the great political criminals of the 20th century, alongside J. Edgar Hoover and Joseph McCarthy, who tore up the Constitution when it didn’t fit their personal agendas.

REX ALTMAN

Los Angeles