Even though he's dead, Nixon is still speaking to us and whether we like it or not, he's still making sense. People knock Nixon but he really captures the spirit of this country better than any other President. You want to win? Cheat. Step on the next guy. Be nice to their face but keep your head on straight behind closed doors. They call these "disparaging remarks" but really...just dead on analysis. Americans want to have it both ways and Nixon can do this for you, but Nixon also had an awesome sense of civic duty so he had the vision to TAPE his REAL sentiments in the hope this country would grow up enough to handle the truth. But apparently the New York Times (Jews) will still spin this against him.
It's funny but Nixon was a better friend to the Jews than the Jew he hired, Henry Kissinger! If you read the bottom of this it quotes Dr. Strangelove as saying Jews in the gas chambers are not an American concern. What a pal. If Kissinger was running the show they could have left Auschwitz open. Mind you, the idea was that you would ASK the Russians a QUESTION about letting the Jews out. Imagine what a powerhouse diplomatic effort that would have required, opening your mouth and asking. What a prick. At least when Nixon calls people names he gets it right.
Richard M. Nixon made disparaging remarks about Jews, blacks, Italian-Americans and Irish-Americans in a series of extended conversations with top aides and his personal secretary, recorded in the Oval Office 16 months before he resigned as president.
"The Jews have certain traits," he said. "The Irish have certain -- for example, the Irish can't drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish."
Nixon continued: "The Italians, of course, those people course don't have their heads screwed on tight. They are wonderful people, but," and his voice trailed off.
A moment later, Nixon returned to Jews: "The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality."
An indication of Nixon's complex relationship with Jews came the afternoon Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister, came to visit on March 1, 1973. The tapes capture Meir offering warm and effusive thanks to Nixon for the way he had treated her and Israel.
But moments after she left, Nixon and Mr. Kissinger were brutally dismissive in response to requests that the United States press the Soviet Union to permit Jews to emigrate and escape persecution there.
"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy," Mr. Kissinger said. "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
"I know," Nixon responded. "We can't blow up the world because of it."
[New York Times]
The Captain has no idea how you could have left this portion of the NYT piece out of your post, particularly consider the post the immediately precedes this one:
ReplyDeleteNixon offered sharp skepticism at the argument of William P. Rogers, his secretary of state, that black Americans would become more valued citizens.
"Bill Rogers has got -- to his credit it's a decent feeling -- but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he's been in New York," Nixon said. "He says well, 'They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.' So forth and so on.
"My own view is I think he's right if you're talking in terms of 500 years," he said. "I think it's wrong if you're talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that's the only thing that's going to do it, Rose.
Argh, "particularly considering ..."
ReplyDeleteSorry Captain. Too much gold in that mine!
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