It may seem that way if one knows little about the cutthroat Nixon administration, but those folks played hardball. The kind that prolonged a war (Vietnam), killing multiple thousands to ensure getting elected. Watergate, etc. Naiveté in a nutshell, although will allow that "company culture" may not have been as well-known a thing at the time.

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Cancel culture is dangerous, but being tolerant of some behaviours (which of course are much more specific and contextual in this case) was also his downfall