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Thank you for taking the time to more fully express your opinion and thank you for your service to our country and the Republican Party.
I don't think that I accept the Democratic Party view of things but I do believe blacks were aware Nixon felt this way about them while at the same time he presided over the greatest transfer of wealth from earners to idlers by signing every welfare bill Carl Albert put in front of him:
From a May 13, 1971, conversation among President Richard Nixon, John D. Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman. On October 5, 1999, the National Archives made available to the public 445 hours of previously unreleased Oval Office tapes. The following dialogue was transcribed by Chicago Tribune reporter James Warren.

RICHARD NIXON: We're going to [put] more of these little Negro bastards on the welfare rolls at $2,400 a family--let people like Pat Moynihan and [special consultant] Leonard Garment and others believe in all that crap. But I don't believe in it. Work, work--throw 'em off the rolls. That's the key.

JOHN D. EHRLICHMAN: The key is Reagan's neutrality. If Reagan blasts this thing and says it's not strong enough on the work-requirement end, that will be very bad.

NIXON: I have the greatest affection for them [blacks], but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like.

At another point on the tapes, Nixon tells Rumsfeld that blacks are recently "out of the trees."

Blacks gave Goldwater only 5 percent of the vote because EVERYBODY voted against Goldwater. It was a landslide and don't think he lost because of conservative principles. The primary reason was fear of the (now forgotten) right-wing John Birch Society which seemed at the time a combination of Klanners, Nazis and McCarthyites. The second reason was the embrace of what seemed like a kooky idea at the time: conservative opposition to flouridating drinking supplies. Better dental health was a national goal and cancer warnings weren't given much attention.
The third-biggest reason was that the election followed the Kennedy assassination by less than a year and the nation sought stability over a clarion call for change.
I think we should go back and look at water flouridation, given evidence of decreased human and other animal sterility. What other problems has it caused? Off on a tangent again, I guess. Nice talking to you and I did learn a few things. Thanks.

Oh, Good Christ, every white politician in America thought that way about black folks back in those days. Don't kid yourself. LBJ's comments about having the "n-----s" in the Democratic Party's back pocket for 200 years is the stuff of legend.

What I'm saying is that most of it is myth, propounded by Democrats to imply that the Republican Party is an instrument of racism. I simply reject that, given my own experience with other Republicans and my knowledge of history.

Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Bill killed him, and our party, among black voters. Goldwater was a victim of his atypical conservatism and of association with kooky sections of the right, you are correct there. OTOH, Goldwater did better against Lyndon than McGovern did against Nixon, if only because people felt he was leveling with them about Vietnam.

Be Seeing You,

Chris