Was Nixon a bad president outside Watergate

As a presidential candidate in 1968, Nixon personally ordered his staff to undermine efforts to end the Vietnam War so that his own promise to end the war if elected would be more appealing to voters and would give him an edge in the election.
www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html

www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/nixon-tried-to-spoil-johnsons-vietnam-peace-talks-in-68-notes-show.html

This single act of treachery alone resulted in the needless deaths of more than 20,000 Americans and the wounding of tens of thousands of others--plus the preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians.