Modern journalist amaze me with their naivete. Who of the millions of African-Americans, Women, Jews, Latinos and other ethnic groups did not know that Richard Nixon was not only a crook, but a racist. Now pundits for the Los Angeles Times are musing over how they wondered if Nixon was motivated by race. Well yes, Richard Nixon was a senator during the time of Joseph McCarthy, and though he prepared better, he was just as vehement about his hate of groups that he thought were Anti-American and as the article points out, became more virulent when he was on the campaign trail.
Now we have Nixon showing his racism in his own words. Just because members of the GOP say they are not racist and that their policies are for the better good, that doesn't make it so. Don't forget, Lincoln first tried to relocate slaves. Sometimes it is political pressure that causes us to change history.
Nixon did some good things, but in the end, just like those who followed, he was a crook and a racist.
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