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(Hartford Courant) – The tapes reflect secretly recorded conversations between Nixon and his associates during January and February 1973. Among the things on his mind during that period were the Vietnam War, how to savage his political enemies and the unfolding Watergate drama.
The tapes also caught his reaction to Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. In a Jan. 22 conversation with aide Chuck Colson, Nixon can be heard saying: “There are times when abortions are necessary — I know that. . . . Suppose you have a black and a white, or a rape.”
Nixon and Colson agreed that legalized abortion encouraged permissiveness. “It breaks the family,” Nixon says.
… Discussing Nixon’s political opposition, Colson says it included “the blacks and the poor.” Nixon adds: “And the intellectuals.” Colson goes on to say that it also included “the lavender shirt mob . . . the homos and the queers.”
The Nixon Tapes: Richard Nixon Hates All in the Family (1971)
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“I noticed a couple of very attractive women, both of them Republicans, in the Legislature,” Nixon tells Bush. “I want you to be sure to emphasize to our people, God, let’s look for some. . . . Understand, I don’t do it because I’m for women, but I’m doing it because I think maybe a woman might win someplace where a man might not. . . . So have you got that in mind?”
“I’ll certainly keep it in mind,” Bush replies.
“Boy, they were good lookin’ and bright,” Nixon continues. And he had been informed, further, that “they’re two of the best members of the House.”
“Well, that’s terrific,” Bush says.
“There are times when abortions are necessary — I know that. . . . Suppose you have a black and a white, or a rape.”
And we went to war why with Nazi Germany? Oh, that’s right, it was because we followed the Brits in implementing their old strategy of never allowing a sole, unopposed power to emerge on the Continent.
Interesting that he so casually equates biracial pregnancy with rape.
He was one smart white supremacist. In his heart he knew that the browning of humanity would be the end of the kind of evil that he so capably represented all of his life.
Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
“But there is another sort of person called diabolical, who may be mentally alert but who has deliberately turned the heart into a charnel house, a hidden chamber where evil is planned, to be committed in the world. These people can put wicked thoughts into the minds of others, and can command evil elementals to influence others so that they may never perform any particular vile act directly.”
When I first read this, the images of Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney and any number of other vicious American politicians rose unbidden in my mind. There they are, in all of the negative glory.
Yup,
Too bad that the “average person who does not know or seek truth”…the prototypical sheeple…must always and forever be the prey of these others.
Or…maybe not so bad.
Maybe that’s how evolution works.
Keep fighting.
That is also how evolution works.
Bet on it.
Later…
S.