SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2010
NewNixon tapes reveal anti-Semitic, racist remarks
In casual conversations, he rails against Jews, blacks, Italians, Irish
BY ROB STEIN Richard M. Nixon made nega-
tive comments about Jews, blacks and other ethnic groups during informal discussions with top aides and his personal secretary that were recorded before he resigned as president, according to a newly released batch of tapes. “I’ve just recognized that, you
know, all people have certain traits,” Nixon said during a Feb. 13, 1973, conversation with Charles W. Colson that was in- cluded among 265 hours of tapes released on Thursday by the Nix- on Presidential Library and Mu- seum. “The Jews have certain traits.
The Irish have certain — for example, the Irish can’t drink. What you always have to remem- ber with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I’ve known gets mean when he drinks. It’s sort of a natural trait. Particularly the real Irish,” Nixon said. “The Italians, of course, just
don’t have their heads screwedon tight. They are wonderful people, but . . .” he trailed off, adding later: “The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and ob- noxious personality.” During another conversation
with his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, Nixon expresses doubt about the opinion of Wil- liam P. Rogers, his secretary of state, about blacks. “Bill Rogers has got somewhat
— and to his credit it’s a decent feeling—but somewhat, sort of, a sort of 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 physical- ly 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,” Nixon said. “I think it’s wrong if you’re talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”
During another conversation
with his secretary, Nixon argued that Jewish people tend to be insecure.
"Basically, Rose, most of our
Jewish friends . . . they are all basically people who have a sense of inferiority and have got to compensate,” Nixon said. When Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir was in Washington, Nixon gave instructions toWoods about who should be invited, or not invited, to what he called “the Jewish dinner.” “I don’t want any Jew at that
dinner who didn’t support us in that campaign,” he said. “Is that clear? No Jew who did not sup- port us.” The tapes, made in February
andMarch of 1973, were released along with 2,500 pages of former- ly classified national security ma- terials, 140,000 pages of domestic records, and 45 video oral histo- ries done by the library between 2007 and 2009. They are the latest in a series of tapes released by the library that Nixon record- ed during his presidency.
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