Last years film Frost/Nixon made a decent attempt at humanizing Dick Nixon but let's not ever forget what a freaking racist monster he was.From The New York Times...
On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.
“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.”
To quote Andrew Sullivan: "So the 37th president would have aborted the 44th."
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