NP - Nixon's Quotable Quotes

[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58812-2002Mar20.html

More from the tapes:

May 26, 1971:
"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for 
legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, 
Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are 
psychiatrists."


May 13, 1971: (with comments from the news writer)
On this day, he makes it clear that he does not like gay people. Northern 
California, he says, has gotten so "faggy" that "I won't shake hands with 
anybody from San Francisco."

Nixon loves this subject. He is nearly unstoppable on it. His top aides H.R. 
"Bob" Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are in the room, but they barely speak 
beyond monosyllabic sycophancies. It takes the president a while to get to 
the point, which begins with his review of a popular TV sitcom he has just 
watched, apparently for the first time:

"Archie is sitting here with his hippie son-in-law, married to the screwball 
daughter. . . . The son-in-law apparently goes both ways."

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, whores."

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 
fags. . . . 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."





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