His nickname may have been “Tricky Dick” but it really should have been more like “Racist, Dick”. Recent proof of my suggested moniker comes in the form of White House tapes, where Racist Dick Nixon discusses abortion. Turns out, he wasn’t staunchly pro-life like many of his supporters. He favored abortion as an option for cases of rape…and interracial couples.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white, or a rape.”
Let that process for a second. The elected Republican President of the United States, who was anti-abortion, thought that interracial pregnancies were so awful that they should be aborted.
He also referred to the members of Congress who spoke out against our actions in Vietnam as “treasonable”.
There’s a few more good points listed in the full NYT article – give it a read here.
