New Nixon Tapes Contain Even More Racism

The New York Times has another bucketload of ethnic stereotyping from disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon. Arising from newly-released tapes--all from Nixon's secret taping system in the Oval Office--reveal the following bigoted and nasty ethnic generalizations from the mouth of Nixon. At times, they read like a manual on old-school racial prejudices:

Italians: "of course, those people don’t have their heads screwed on tight."

Irish:  "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.”

Jews: "are a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality."

Black people: "What has to happen is they have be, frankly, inbred [to join normal society, as explained to his secretary Rose Mary Woods]. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose."

This is only the beginning of the revelations reported by the Times, including an even more torturous relationship with Jews--and in particular, callous remarks made by Nixon and Kissinger about Soviet Jews fate being irrelevant to U.S interests.

Said Kissinger, " And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

“I know,” replied Nixon. “We can’t blow up the world because of it.”

 Read the full story at the New York Times.