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Nixon's diabolical views advocating the Abortions of Interracial babies.
The Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in January 1973, removing most restrictions on abortion. President Nixon told his special counsel Chuck Colson that even though he believed abortion encouraged permissiveness, it shouldn't always be out of the question.
Nixon said, "There are times when abortions are necessary, I know that, you know that's when you have a black and a white."
Colson: "Or rape."
Nixon: "Or rape."
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WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”
Nine months later, after Nixon precipitated the resignations of two top Justice Department officials and forced the firing of the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate affair, Ronald Reagan, who was then the governor of California and would later be president, told the White House that he heartily approved.
Reagan told the White House that the action — which would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre” — was “probably the best thing that ever happened — none of them belong where they were,” according to a Nixon aide’s notes of the private conversation.
Those disclosures were among the revelations in more than 150 hours of tape and tens of thousands of pages of documents from the Nixon administration made public on Tuesday by the National Archives. The audio files were all posted online, as were a sampling of the documents, the rest of which are available in reading rooms.
The newly disclosed tapes were recorded by the secret microphones in the Oval Office from January and February 1973, and they shed new light on an intense moment in American history. The period included Nixon’s second inauguration, the ceasefire agreement for Vietnam, and the criminal trial of seven men over the burglary of the Democrats’ headquarters at the Watergate complex amid mounting revelations about their close ties to the White House.
Most tapes relating to the Watergate scandal, which would lead to Nixon’s resignation 20 months later amid an impeachment scandal, have already been released.
But there are some new materials that were previously held back because the audio was so poor that archives officials could not be certain whether they contained discussion of any classified topics. Improvements in audio technology have allowed archives staff to make out more of what is on the tapes, clearing additional ones for release.
Among the newly disclosed tapes is a Jan. 5, 1973, conversation between Nixon and his aide Charles W. Colson, at which they discussed the possibility of granting clemency to E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of the Watergate conspirators, according to a log compiled by archives staff.
The staff did not produce a transcript of the conversation, which is difficult to make out using ordinary equipment, but scholars say that the same topic was addressed in several other tapes that had previously been made public.
In addition to the notes about the reactions of Reagan and other governors to the Justice Department purge, the documents also include nine pages of handwritten notes by Kenneth Cole, a domestic policy aide, about plans for what the White House would say about the dismissal of the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
The tapes also provide new material about the circumstances surrounding the Paris treaty to end the United States’ military involvement in Vietnam and to bring home prisoners of war.
A call between Nixon and Mr. Colson just after midnight on Jan. 20 — about 11 hours before Nixon would be sworn in for a second term — showed that Nixon anticipated, when the treaty was announced, that he would be vindicated for continuing to bomb North Vietnam. He especially relished the hit he anticipated that members of Congress who opposed the war — whose public statements he pronounced “treasonable” — would suffer.
Several conversations also center on the pressure the Nixon administration was putting on South Vietnam’s president, Nguyen Van Thieu, to accept the ceasefire agreement. It has long been known that Thieu was worried that the ceasefire and withdrawal by United States military forces would lead to an eventual Communist victory.
Ken Hughes, a Nixon scholar and research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Presidential Recordings Project, said he was struck by listening on one of the new tapes to Nixon telling his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, that to get Thieu to sign the treaty, he would “cut off his head if necessary.”
Mr. Hughes said the conversation bolstered his view that Nixon, Thieu, and Mr. Kissinger all knew at the time that the ceasefire could not endure, and that it was not “peace with honor,” as Mr. Nixon described it, so much as a face-saving way for the United States to get out of the war. In 1975, North Vietnam would violate the ceasefire and conquer Saigon.
“What this quote shows is that Nixon was willing to go to any length to force the president of South Vietnam to accept a so-called peace settlement that Nguyen Van Thieu, Henry Kissinger, and Richard Nixon all realized would lead to a Communist military victory,” Mr. Hughes said.
The tapes also reveal that in February 1973, after Israel shot down a Libyan civilian passenger jet, killing 113 people, Nixon talked about his views of anti-Semitism in America in a phone conversation with the evangelist Billy Graham.
Mr. Graham complained that Jewish-American leaders had denounced efforts to promote evangelical Christianity, like Campus Crusade, and Nixon and Graham agreed that the Jewish leaders risked bringing anti-Jewish sentiment to the surface.
“What I really think is deep down in this country, there is a lot of anti-Semitism, and all this is going to do is stir it up,” Nixon said. At another point he said, “It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”
The documents also include three newly declassified pages from a National Security Council brief on nuclear proliferation, which discuss secret Israeli efforts to build a nuclear weapon. Israel has never confirmed or denied having nuclear weapons; it is widely believed to have had them for years.
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