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Ah Nixon, Ever the Charmer
From the AP write-up of the newly released Nixon tapes:
Speaking to Charles Colson after the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the president said: "I admit, there are times when abortions are necessary, I know that." He gave "a black and a white" as an example.
He said this 12 years after the birth of Barack Obama.
By: Emily Bazelon
Posted: June 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM
From the AP write-up of the newly released Nixon tapes:
Speaking to Charles Colson after the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the president said: "I admit, there are times when abortions are necessary, I know that." He gave "a black and a white" as an example.
He said this 12 years after the birth of Barack Obama.
From the AP write-up [1] of the newly released Nixon tapes:
Speaking to Charles Colson after the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, the president said: "I admit, there are times when abortions are necessary, I know that." He gave "a black and a white" as an example.
"Or rape," Colson offered. "Or rape," Nixon agreed.
This a decade and a half after the Supreme Court struck down state bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia [2]. And 12 years after the birth of Barack Obama.
Photograph of Richard Nixon by AFP/Getty Images.
Links:
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062300126.html
[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0388_0001_ZO.html