Rumsfeld-Nixon Talk Surfaces on Tape
From Times Wire Reports
President-elect George W. Bush’s team said Defense secretary nominee Donald H. Rumsfeld never agreed with pejorative comments that President Nixon made 29 years ago about blacks in a conversation preserved on tape at the National Archives. On the tape, Rumsfeld can be heard making several acknowledgments, such as “yes” and “that’s right” as Nixon rambled on during a conversation about African and American blacks. The conversation is reported in the Chicago Tribune today.
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