I think the worst things about Nixon was his role implementing American foreign policy when it came to anti-communism and his “drug war” policies. The best could be the things he didn’t personally care about as much, he started the first affirmative action program, was too slow with desegregation but did support civil rights and the overall moral goal of it, and he implemented some tax cuts that benefitted working class.

Apollo would be a more minor bad for me, it didn’t really do much to benefit average people other than serve as a symbol of America’s power and the next frontier. I think there’s a lot of nostalgia for some of these programs today but they were always sort of funded to be demonstrations of America’s power, if the Soviets weren’t interested in space they probably wouldn’t have happened. A byproduct of Apollo was public funding of technology which is great, but a lot of that also benefits the military industrial complex and America’s imperialism, so it’s not this happy story that it’s often portrayed as like “we have small computers because of Apollo!”

We’re talking about people who are narcissists and psychopaths running an empire though, they’re all evil.