Who was the worse president: Nixon or Bush? [View All]

After seeing "Frost/Nixon" over the holidays while I was in California, I had a long conversation with my folks about this. They lived through that era and I didn't...

And I contended that for a President to be caught red-handed doing something that was indisputably illegal, to resign in disgrace, to leave the US without an elected leader at a vulnerable time due to his own corruption...to me, it was unimaginable.

But my Mom countered that at least Nixon was an intelligent man, and that Bush was not only corrupt but also deeply ignorant...and she claimed that more awful things had happened under his watch due to his ease in being manipulated by outsiders and groupthink.

But it's hard to say--Vietnam killed more soldiers than Iraq did, and then there was Cambodia, etc, etc...

What do you guys think?