[reaganaut1]

A unborn child should not be killed just because his parents are of different races. I'm disappointed that Nixon said this (assuming the Times is accurate).

[sthguard]

See also http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277828/posts.

[Perdogg]

That does seem out of character for Nixon.

[muawiyah]

Given the timeframe it was quite obvious Nixon was prescient and was striving to avoid the plague Obama was going to bring down on our heads.

Remember, "Tricky Dick" wasn't called "Tricky" for nothing.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well hell, he was a man who was in his 40s in 1960. Everyone had a different mentality about that kind of thing in that generation. You think there were a lot of blacks that would have been happy about a mixed race child then?

[mnehring]

I notice they don’t do a lot of release of LBJ’s tapes and/or notes, he was about as bad of a racist as they come.

[Maelstorm]

I don’t really care what Nixon’s view on abortion is. That it is detestable I’m not surprised but I’m sure that horrid view wasn’t uncommon during that time. I am much more offended though by the horrible way planned parenthood has targeted black and minority communities with abortion clinics. It is well known that some of the founders of planned parenthood held blacks in low regard. Aslo the outlook for poor women after having abortions does not generally improve rather published studies show that the opposite is true.

[Uncle Miltie]

Continuing to prove that Nixon was an unprincipled jerk.

[Jackson57]

That’s a mighty big assumption there (that the NYT is accurate).

If you consider it, Nixon was a prophet ... Obama would have been aborted. /sarc