The New York Times has another bucketload of ethnic stereotyping from disgraced former president Richard M. Nixon. The new tapes--all from Nixon's secret taping system in the Oval Office--reveal the following bigoted nasty and ethnic generalizations from the mouth of Nixon. At times, they read like a manual on old-school racial prejudices:
Italians: "those people course 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' in gas chambers being irrelevant to U.S interests.