How many guys here know the meaning of "Nixon agonistes"(Please don't check out your dict)

Durn if I know.

Greek loan word meaning struggling or emabttled, seen in the titles of Milton's Samson Agonistes, TS Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes and of that book about Richard Nixon. 1st year Eng Lit students would have recognised it (and did when I was one).

That's 'embattled'.

By the way, agonistes as used in the example is an 'epithet'.

I took it to mean that Nixon suffered thru some personal agony for his frequent errors in judgment simply because he was such an immoral piece of excrement.

I don't know if I'm right or wrong.

Never heard of it before this thread.