Edward Penishands
16th June 2004, 01:17
Great examples of the Silent moral majority
Nixon and aide Charles Colson in June 1972 discuss the successes produced by a recent military buildup in the Vietnam War:
Colson: People are beginning to sense that we're doing pretty damn well, that American casualties are down, which they are ... 19 Americans killed last week. They're used to hearing about 25 killed on automobiles in a weekend ...
Nixon: ... We want to decimate that goddamned place ... North Vietnam is going to get reordered ... It's about time. It's what should have been done years ago.
"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. I don't care."
Nixon to Kissinger in 1972, admonishing his aide about concerns over killing Vietnamese civilians
"You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates. [...] Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were f_gs. [...] You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns. That's been going on for years, centuries."
Nixon in May 1971
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5079259/site/newsweek/
Nixon and aide Charles Colson in June 1972 discuss the successes produced by a recent military buildup in the Vietnam War:
Colson: People are beginning to sense that we're doing pretty damn well, that American casualties are down, which they are ... 19 Americans killed last week. They're used to hearing about 25 killed on automobiles in a weekend ...
Nixon: ... We want to decimate that goddamned place ... North Vietnam is going to get reordered ... It's about time. It's what should have been done years ago.
"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. I don't care."
Nixon to Kissinger in 1972, admonishing his aide about concerns over killing Vietnamese civilians
"You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo, we all know that, so was Socrates. [...] Do you know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were f_gs. [...] You know what happened to the popes? It's all right that popes were laying the nuns. That's been going on for years, centuries."
Nixon in May 1971
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5079259/site/newsweek/