According to his biographer, Aitken, after his resignation,"Nixon was a soul in torment".
She later expressed her opinion that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, saying,"I was very much
a puppet in the beginning.
Aitken feels that"Nixon,
both as a man and as a statesman, has been excessively maligned for his faults and inadequately recognised for his virtues.