New tapes reveal Richard Nixon's racist rants before quitting over Watergate

[Trident1]

Meh he had issues like every one else.

At least he did what Johnson didn't..........make the North Vietnamese come to the peace table.

 

[Facetious]

As much as it pains me to say so, I have to agree. It has been nearly 50 years since blacks(and all minorities for that matter) have actually been guaranteed the equal rights promised by the constitution. In that 50 year time span, we have seen more blacks graduating from high school, college, earning more advanced degrees and entering higher paying jobs than anytime in history. That information is a bit subjective since they weren't really allowed to do those things up until a few decades ago.

yet today . . .

[ . .Black boys, in particular, are an especially endangered species in schools.

In Oakland, 54 percent of black boys quit school before graduation.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Meh he had issues like every one else.

At least he did what Johnson didn't..........make the North Vietnamese come to the peace table.

This is a good point. It's all to easy to ignore the good stuff when confronted by the tidal wave of insanity that was Milhouse ......

 

[Trident1]

This is a good point. It's all to easy to ignore the good stuff when confronted by the tidal wave of insanity that was Milhouse ......

Also opening up China to the West. I'm no great fan of Tricky Dick but I take my hat off to him for his "tough as nails" foreign policy.

 

[BlueBalls]

Well, at least the Daily Mail's relevant. I'll give er' that.

I mean, Nixon yeah . . . he was a bit of a shit wasn't he? Shame he's dead and all, we really could have thrown this 37 year old piece of complete and utter irrelevance right back in his fucking face now couldn't we....

*High 5*

 

[BioDefenseGrad]

He was corrupt and very paranoid to the point of being mentally unstable so does adding bigoted to that list really surprise anybody about Nixon?

I do find it somewhat amusing and ironic about the whole 500 years for blacks stuff he mentioned considering who holds his former position right now with it being only about 40 years after he said that.

If he meant 500 from the first black person arriving in America he would be pretty much correct.

Was he saying that black people were inbred and that's why they were screwups in his eyes, or that they needed to become inbred? Or was he talking about being "bred in" to the general population? Anyway, for such an odd duck he actually did a lot of important things.

From a foreign policy standpoint he's considered a very effective president.

 

[Ike Stain]

Those views were pretty standard for someone of his generation.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Well, at least the Daily Mail's relevant. I'll give er' that.

I mean, Nixon yeah . . . he was a bit of a shit wasn't he? Shame he's dead and all, we really could have thrown this 37 year old piece of complete and utter irrelevance right back in his fucking face now couldn't we....

*High 5*

Totally .. I hear the Fourth Estate has their hands on some new scrolls that make Pontius Pilate look really bad ......

 

[Bearded_Menace]

There are racist/prejudiced/delusional people in world....big surprise! Lets move on before this turns into a thread pornstars who don't do interracial.:yinyang:

:1orglaugh

 

[Lust]

wasn't Nixon the guy who interviewed President Frost?

 

[Facetious]

I guess we're supposed to be pissed off that he said it, right? :dunno:

Because it looks like he hit the nail on the head. Just sayin'...

Excelsior!

''You are correct, sir".

Furthermore, this is not a legitimate news story, it's an anonymous editorial.

 

[Deepcover]

Nixon didn't trust anyone period. Here's a guy who would call JFK a faggot due to the presidental lost in 1960. Nixon even called Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau a "fucking french asshole".

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Nixon even called Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau a "fucking french asshole".

So, he wasn't completely wrong and mad then ......

 

[CunningStunts]

Nixon gets the rep for being "paranoid," and in many ways rightfully earned. But you know where he got the idea for recording conversations and digging up dirt on people to bend them to his will? His predecessor, LBJ, the biggest crook to ever sit in the White House, the guy who stayed in Vietnam because of economic factors...

Books are your friends :2 cents:

 

[bodie54]

At least he did what Johnson didn't..........make the North Vietnamese come to the peace table.

yes but.....how much earlier could he have gotten that done if he wasn't obsessed with being the first president to lose a war?

As it was he ran (with transparent opportunism) on a peace platform in 1968 but didn't deliver on that promise until 1973.....tens of thousands of tragically wasted casualties later.

 

[Trident1]

yes but.....how much earlier could he have gotten that done if he wasn't obsessed with being the first president to lose a war?

As it was he ran (with transparent opportunism) on a peace platform in 1968 but didn't deliver on that promise until 1973.....tens of thousands of tragically wasted casualties later.

Nixon did in December '72 what LBJ should've done in '65 which is the unrestricted bombing of NV and mining Haiphong harbor. LBJ's insipid ROE on bombing cost us so many pilots killed, MIA and POW.
It could've ended in '65.

 

[meesterperfect]

yes but.....how much earlier could he have gotten that done if he wasn't obsessed with being the first president to lose a war?

As it was he ran (with transparent opportunism) on a peace platform in 1968 but didn't deliver on that promise until 1973.....tens of thousands of tragically wasted casualties later.

check out the big balls on bodes!
your condemning him, even blaming him for all vietnam casualties from 68 on?
oh! youre probably right, he could have ended it sooner but keep in mind it was a democratic president that got us into both the korean and vietnam wars and a republican that got us out.

i'm kind of equating your thought process here to blaming obama for any soldier killed in iraq and afghanistan since january 2008.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Nixon did in December '72 what LBJ should've done in '65 which is the unrestricted bombing of NV and mining Haiphong harbor. LBJ's insipid ROE on bombing cost us so many pilots killed, MIA and POW.
It could've ended in '65.

You know what they had in Vietnam? Gunshields. How come they had to be reinvented for the scuffles we're now having in the mid-east?

 

[pool_hustler]

keep in mind it was a democratic president that got us into both the korean and vietnam wars and a republican that got us out.

Mr perfect I'm sure you realize that is an oversimplification of an extremely lengthy and complex affair, and not even completely factually correct to my recollection.

I'm not going to fact check so if I my memory is flawed please correct me, but as I recall the Domino Theory and "brinkmanship" grew out of the Eisenhower (republican) administration. We were supplying material support to the south as far back as 1953 or 54. The first U.S. military casualties in Vietnam occurred under Eisenhower. So the Viet Nam policy table was already well set by the time the torch was passed to Kennedy.

Yes a republican got us out, but Nixon didn't end the war because he wanted peace. He ended the war because it was politically expedient. Actually beyond expedient, it was politically crucial.

 

[meesterperfect]

very true, its a lot more complex than my simple statement above.