Listening to these Richard Nixon tapes is fascinating, in how ordinary and often dumb not only he sounds but everybody he talks to. this guy outside of the clusterfuck Watergate was is supposedly one of the smarter presidents. I'm sure if we heard tapes of Obama and every other recent president they'd come off the same - ordinary people.
This one is a beauty, he's telling some White House flunky about how he was watching a baseball game on TV when some show comes on and it's all about fags - he calls the main character 'Arch', he's stumbled on All In The Family and has no clue it's the most popular TV show in the US at the time.
Listening to these tapes he comes off as a regular middle aged white guy, the bigotry is benign and old fashioned. As far as Watergate goes, he got dealt a bad hand, he personally had nothing to do with any of it, when he did find out what had gone on he had only two options, out his own staff and fire them all or try to cover it up.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ynzrn...FDD5AF0E124844