Save your indignation for something else and climb down. It was something the parents had to consider at the time. It was rough on the kids, I SAW IT, and more than once Seth told me he wished he was one or the other since he took s**t from both races.

faol on June 24, 2009 at 6:39 PM

in·dig·na·tion (ndg-nshn) KEY

Anger aroused by something unjust, mean, or unworthy

Save my indignation? What you are really saying is that it was better to go along with the majority because that was the easy thing to do. It was TOO HARD and unjust for the child, so spare the child (and anyone related to that child) the suffering.

Climb down? I assume you mean from my high horse? My sons LIVE IT TODAY and through them so do my wife and I. Hard yes, end of the world no, better for them not to be around…you know the answer. My children know that they are members of the HUMAN race, the color of their skin has no bearing on their value as a person.

It is a shame that your friend had to suffer at the hands of ignorant people. People that were no doubt taught their beliefs early in life, but also people that should have had enough mental capacity to think for themselves and determine right from wrong. Just because it is the “norm” for people to think a certain way should not be justification for having the beliefs.

When Nixon was elected I was 19 and had already enlisted and was living the good life in beautiful Southeast Asia.

The problem was that JFK was trying to impress Khrushchev after his disastrous Vienna Summit and Johnson didn’t think he would survive quitting. Not only that, but the Democrats had firm control of Congress during the entire time.

In the end it was those same Democrats that nullified the agreement that Nixon had made to supply and support the South Vietnamese after American combat troops were removed.

They had changed from supporting the war in the beginning to making absolutely sure that the South Vietnamese were defeated.

Haven’t been able to trust a Democrat since. Their antic in the Iraq War show that they they still can’t be trusted.

No POTUS should ever go to war without a declaration of such from Congress. Otherwise, the “progressives” will hang your walnuts out to dry as they conveniently overlook their private agreements. (SanFranNan I’m talkin’ to you).

The obvious target should have been places like Haiphong harbor where most of the weapons and ammunition were getting to the Communists in the first place.

But of course the Communists over here had a problem with taking the war directly to the north. Those bombings of infrastructure in the north seems to have been the only thing that ever made Hanoi wince.

It doesn’t dismiss the racism obvious in Nixon’s statement, but it also doesn’t let go of the fact that both sides of the spectrum can have utilitarian views of human life.

bluelightbrigade on June 24, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Two left sides?

Obama must be in even more trouble than they’re letting on. Nixon is invoked whenever lefties want to remind everyone who the really evil people are.

Talking about Nixon puts the following message in the dog-brains of the general populous:

“Nixon. War. Loser. Liar. Republican.”

hawksruleva on June 24, 2009 at 5:31 PM

Sadly true; and the good that he did gets lost in the noise.

People should read a book, on occasion.

Sadly, I mourn the party that John Stennis and Richard Russell belong to, were part of and defined because it is no longer.

Tilly on June 24, 2009 at 3:52 PM

Scoop Jackson, John Stennis, Richard Russell, Harry Truman – even JFK, in his own way – all good solid patriotic men, who happened to be Democrats.

All served; and all would have willingly done whatever they needed to in defense of freedom and liberty.

None left like them.

Nixon started the EPA. Nixon strengthened Affirmative Action. Nixon increased the War on Poverty (more welfare, food stamps, etc). Nixon instituted a wage and price freeze. I’m surprised liberals hate him so much

Bevan on June 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM

Well, liberals aren’t known for having a very good grasp on history either, are they?

It is kind of like how they can lionize FDR and Wilson…and then complain that their political opponents are fascists in all but name…

Hey, even Nixon could not be wrong ALL of the time!

rukiddingme on June 24, 2009 at 5:14 PM

Save your indignation for something else and climb down. It was something the parents had to consider at the time. It was rough on the kids, I SAW IT, and more than once Seth told me he wished he was one or the other since he took s**t from both races.

When my oldest sister bought a Toyota in 1972 you’d thought she brought home Buck. Nixon was expressing what he knew from his experience.

I would like to observe that it has taken a lot of work for this country to get where it is. Some don’t appreciate that and are willing to see only the negative. In the early 60′s I asked my grandmother why we had all of the laundry with us when the faded sign over the door said “Whites Only”. She had to explain that was a remnent of a bygone era and no longer applied.

Now, as to Nixon and the abortion of an interracial child: I will offer this very limited defense: if a white woman were to give birth to a child of clearly mixed race, in certain parts of the country a black man might face lynching. njcommuter on June 24, 2009 at 5:29 PM

This is not a defense, just an excuse attempting to rationalize a disgusting mentality. Because someone might get lynched, and NO ONE around has a spine to try to prevent it, the child is better off dead?

I can see the appeal of dredging up one of the most reviled GOP figures in recent history. Some conservatives seem to enjoy self-mutilation. Nixon’s ACTUAL record doesn’t matter. Talking about Nixon puts the following message in the dog-brains of the general populous:

“Nixon. War. Loser. Liar. Republican.”

Now, as to Nixon and the abortion of an interracial child: I will offer this very limited defense: if a white woman were to give birth to a child of clearly mixed race, in certain parts of the country a black man might face lynching. It might or might not be the father. It would certainly not be justified, and it does not justify the abortion. But we do have to recognize that those times had a hazard that ours do not, and that lynching was still a recent memory during the Nixon years.

I had a childhood friend in that position and could not believe the how he was ostracized by many in our school. Perhaps Nixon was thinking of the childrens welfare. faol on June 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Are you saying that because society would not tolerate a “mixed” child back then, that somehow that child was better off not being born?

Wow. Just … wow. In Nixon’s mind, we needed abortion accessible because of interracial reproduction. The fact that a President of the US said this less than 40 years ago is shameful. It also demonstrates the utilitarian view of human life that inevitably occurs in the abortion debate, albeit especially despicable in this instance.

It’s also sad that had Nixon’s statement reflected the future reality – e.g., that abortion would mean the deaths of tens of millions of black children – his statements would still have be reprehensible.

It does seem weird that abortion would be taken so lightly, then again, the ultrasound technology that is taken for granted now was virtually unheard of so most people didn’t know exactly what one was aborting. Back then it was just a clump of cells. Abortion sounds ok in theory, until you see what it is you are smashing and hacking up.

Wrong. Opposition to the war began to wane at this point do to fatigue.

Wrong. Because of the lottery.

Why has this been released now again?

LibTired on June 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM

Because O’Bama thought that there would be big time GOP-damaging stuff in there. Instead he got big time Dem-incriminating stuff. This just proves that Barry is a nubie a$$hole.

Why has this been released now again?

LibTired on June 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM

Yeah, I’d like to know how that works. What makes this stuff right for release today instead of at the time of the last Nixon recordings dump? Is there one Nixon recordings czar or is there a committee who votes on it? Who are the people who decide this stuff?

Almost forgot:

Judge thee not where as thee shall be judged.