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have seen that Reagan was just a puppet for the Texas Oil Mafia like Bu$h
Jr is today...
Nixon on Reagan: ‘Strange’
Comments contained in newly released tapes
ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 10 — President Nixon didn’t think much of fellow
Californian and Republican icon Ronald Reagan, calling him “strange” and
not “pleasant to be around,” newly released White House tapes show.
TALKING POLITICS with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp
David in August 1972, Nixon switched the conversation to two Republican
governors, Reagan of California and Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Both
men unsuccessfully sought the 1968 Republican presidential nomination that
Nixon received.
“Reagan is not one that wears well,” Nixon said.
“I know,” Haldeman agreed.
“On a personal basis, Rockefeller is a pretty nice guy,” Nixon said.
“Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn’t pleasant to be
around.”
“No, he isn’t,” Haldeman said.
“Maybe he’s different with others,” Nixon said.
“No,” Haldeman said.
“No, he’s just an uncomfortable man to be around,” Nixon said,
“strange.”
The conversations are part of the 240 hours of White House tape
recordings from the Nixon administration released Wednesday by the National
Archives. Covering the period July through October 1972, the tapes are the
10th batch of Nixon recordings, totaling 2,109 hours, that the Archives has
released since 1980. In all, there are about 3,700 hours of Nixon White
House tapes.
Nixon installed a secret taping system in the White House. Some of
those tapes later showed a White House cover-up in connection with the 1972
break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate
office building. The release of those tapes, which Nixon fought all the way
to the Supreme Court, eventually led to his resignation in 1974 rather than
face almost-certain impeachment and conviction.
The popular Reagan later served two terms as president. But like
Nixon, Reagan had a scandal of his own, involving trading arms to Iran for
hostages and illegally aiding anti-government forces in Nicaragua.
In 1980, Nixon told Parade magazine that he had several good talks
with Reagan. “I think he values my foreign policy advice,” the magazine
quoted Nixon as saying. “I will be available for any assistance or advice.”
Reagan had corresponded with Nixon for years. When Reagan was
elected president, he sought Nixon’s advice.
The disgraced former president offered some suggestions for Cabinet
posts and a strategy for Reagan’s first few months in office, urging him
not to travel abroad for the first six months of his administration so he
could concentrate on the economy rather than foreign policy. Nixon also
pushed for his former chief of staff, Gen. Alexander Haig Jr., as Reagan’s
secretary of state.
Later, Nixon said Reagan’s economic policies were unduly harsh and
cautioned against giving him too much credit for winning the Cold War.
“Communism would have collapsed anyway,” he told Monica Crowley, a Nixon
aide in his last years, according to her 1996 book, “Nixon Off the Record.”
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