A new trove of Nixon tapes have been released by his library, and like the previous batches the new collection exposes the former president as a racist and an anti-Semite. For instance, consider this choice remark uttered just after the Roe v. Wade decision:
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”
Or, how about this phone call with Billy Graham, in which the president suggests that Jews bring hatred on themselves, or as he put it:
"This has happened in Spain, happened in Germany, and now it'll happen in America if they don't start behaving."
This prompts a mini-sermon from good Christian Graham about the two kinds of Jews, one of which is the "Synagogue of Satan" Jew who puts out "the pornographic material." Nixon offers no objection.
On the same call, Nixon says that Israel's attack on a Libyan passenger jet which killed 108 people was "worse then what happened at Munich" The two men agree Israel should pay reparations for it, and Nixon promises he "would talk pretty straight to Ms. Meir about it."
Before ringing off Graham bizarrely worries that all Christians might be expelled from Israel, Nixon sympathizes and offers this explanation:
“It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”
Ah well. At least he called us "friends"
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