BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009, 6:33 PM
New Nixon audio reveals former President's skewed view on abortion
WASHINGTON - President Richard Nixon saw abortion as a useful option for ending mixed-race pregnancies, newly released tapes Tuesday show.
"There are times when abortions are necessary - I know that," Nixon told aide Charles Colson on Jan. 23, 1973.
"That's the thing about a black and a white," Nixon explained in the secretly-recorded conversation, or "a rape.
"Same kind of thing, you know what I mean. There are times," Nixon told his aide in a hideaway next door to the White House.
Nixon did not elaborate on whether he actually favored ending interracial pregnancies or was simply acknowledging the prevalent social stigma of that era about black and white couples.
The 37th President did not foretell in the 150 hours of recordings released by his library, however, that the 44th President might be just such a child born of a white mother and black father.
President Obama was 11 when Nixon was caught on tape.
Nixon discussed his abortion views while otherwise lamenting the Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that day, which legalized abortion.
To Nixon's mind, underage girls might be encouraged to quit using birth control and "go get knocked up" because of the high court's ruling, he said.
New Nixon audio reveals former President's skewed view on abortion
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Tuesday, June 23rd 2009, 6:33 PM
New Nixon audio reveals former President's skewed view on abortion
WASHINGTON - President Richard Nixon saw abortion as a useful option for ending mixed-race pregnancies, newly released tapes Tuesday show.
"There are times when abortions are necessary - I know that," Nixon told aide Charles Colson on Jan. 23, 1973.
"That's the thing about a black and a white," Nixon explained in the secretly-recorded conversation, or "a rape.
"Same kind of thing, you know what I mean. There are times," Nixon told his aide in a hideaway next door to the White House.
Nixon did not elaborate on whether he actually favored ending interracial pregnancies or was simply acknowledging the prevalent social stigma of that era about black and white couples.
The 37th President did not foretell in the 150 hours of recordings released by his library, however, that the 44th President might be just such a child born of a white mother and black father.
President Obama was 11 when Nixon was caught on tape.
Nixon discussed his abortion views while otherwise lamenting the Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that day, which legalized abortion.
To Nixon's mind, underage girls might be encouraged to quit using birth control and "go get knocked up" because of the high court's ruling, he said.
New Nixon audio reveals former President's skewed view on abortion
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pretty funny how you lefties demonize Cheney so much.
