triam Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 New tapes were released, man the transcripts are out thereee. some examples Nixon seems to have concluded, against all evidence, that Meathead is bisexual. Possibly it is the length of his hair. Another character in the show, Nixon reports, is "obviously queer. He wears an ascot, and so forth." The president is outraged that this filth should appear on TV: "The point that I make is that, goddamn it, I do not think that you glorify on public television homosexuality. You don't glorify it, John, anymore than you glorify, uh, *****s." The president asserts that America is in jeopardy from this Archie Bunker gay thing: "I don't want to see this country to go that way. You know what happened to the Greeks. Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates." Ehrlichman interrupts to reassure his boss. Socrates, he says, "never had the influence that television had." Precisely, precisely. Nixon is on a roll, lecturing like a history professor: "Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were ***s. . . . You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns." Someone laughs nervously. Nixon bulls on, not a hint of humor in his voice. "That's been going on for years, centuries, but when the popes, when the Catholic Church went to hell in, I don't know, three or four centuries ago, it was homosexual. . . . Now, that's what happened to Britain, it happened earlier to France. And let's look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn it, they root them out, they don't let 'em hang around at all. You know what I mean? I don't know what they do with them." "Dope? Do you think the Russians allow dope? Hell no. Not if they can catch it, they send them up. You see, homosexuality, dope, uh, immorality in general: These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing it. They're trying to destroy us."
Macj Posted July 8, 2009 Posted July 8, 2009 New tapes were released, man the transcripts are out thereee. some examples He did have a problem putting his foot in his mouth, he was incidentally supportive of abortion as he thought teenage pregnancies of White girls with Black babies might be avoided,thus reducing the interracial population.
Deleted_User_1 Posted July 9, 2009 Posted July 9, 2009 Yes I am very much after watching the Oliver Stone film "Nixon" and the "Frost/Nixon". Nixon was a very well-read, intelligent man with a paranoid dark side.
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