More Nixon stuff. James Warren has a piece in the Chicago Tribune (requires registration) about a recently released tape of a rambling 2-hour conversation between Nixon and H.R. Haldeman.



The topic as we begin is the opening of the Kennedy Center:

"Time has a lot of pictures. And, ah, nauseating. It shows. It has a whole strip of pictures of ... " Haldeman says before his boss interrupts to bring up something totally unrelated: praising the "modest dress" of the wives of his Cabinet members, all of whom had come to the White House earlier in the day.



Haldeman seems undeterred, citing the presence in one Time photo of Joan Kennedy, then the wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.



"The magazine makes the point of showing Joan Kennedy with a slit up to the top of her thighs," Haldeman says. "But they also have a whole strip of pictures of Bernstein kissing everybody he could find and, ah, he's kissing a lot of men on the mouth, you know, including the big black guy. I think it's Alvin Ailey, the head of the dance troupe. And, you know, men kissing men is not... in that world but it is done."



"It is done," says Nixon. "You know the Jews do that."



"But not on the mouth!" shoots back Haldeman.



"He did?" asks Nixon.



"Cheek to cheek, yeah, both cheeks," informs Haldeman.



"Kissing on the mouth?!" asks Nixon.



"Yeah, right head on," says Haldeman.



"Ah, absolutely sickening," responds Nixon.



Haldeman agrees, "It's kind of revolting! Men kissing men on the cheek is a pretty accepted thing."



"Oh, sure," says Nixon.



"The Jews do it all the time. Jews," says Haldeman.

I swear, Saturday Night Live couldn't do it any better.

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