Paul Manafort, Trump's Campaign Manager and flagrant Kremlin agent, as well as Roger Stone, Trump's other long-time friend and liaison with the Proud Boys both participated in Nixon's Souther Strategy, and Reagan's 1980 campaign....Roger Stone has a big, tacky tattoo of Nixon on his back because he loves the "crook" so much.
After launching his political career in 1976 as a delegate-hunt coordinator for the President Ford Committee, Manafort went on to co-found a political consulting firm. In that capacity he served as Southern coordinator for Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, in which he exploited the GOP's "Southern Strategy" — an effort to build political support for the Republican Party among white Democratic voters in the South through dog-whistle appeals to racism against African Americans. It can be traced back to Republican Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential run and was used with great success by the Nixon campaign in 1968.