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Nixon Tapes Confirm Sour Personality

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The much-traveled 37th president aboard Air Force One.

The National Archives released another 200 hours of Richard Nixon’s White House recordings on Tuesday, bringing the grand total of publicly available grousing, griping and racially insensitive grumbling to more than 2,200 hours.

First Read has collected some of Tricky Dick’s greatest hits.

MSNBC / First Read:

Richard Nixon’s reputation takes a fresh pounding every time the National Archives releases another batch of audio tapes from his presidency, and today’s opening of nearly 200 hours of Nixon White House recordings is no exception.

Again and again, Nixon comes across as ruthless, cynical and profane in conversations with staff members.

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By troublesum, December 3, 2008 at 8:40 pm #

Nixon was not schooled in political correctness like today’s politicians many of whom may hold the same prejudices but would choke to death before expressing them. Nixon wanted people to hear this stuff. He set up the taping system in his ofice. He didn’t think his language was objectionable.

Why is it that the National Archives has become a clearing house for this kind of garbage but they don’t do anything on Jefferson, Lincoln, or Roosevelt? At a time when civil liberties are under attack all we hear about Jefferson is that he fathered children with a black woman.

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By Tim McFarland, December 3, 2008 at 4:02 am #
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The timing of this “discovery” is suspicious. Is this supposed to help George Bush look less like a disaster than he does?

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