How could an sitting American president say these things?

[kenny]

... especially since he knew he was being recorded.

They are discussing that TV show "All in the Family" with Archie Bunker.

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/24/our-nixon-homosexuality.cnn.html

 

[Dancing Fire]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

He is not one of my favorite President...

 

[Dreamer_D]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

Does it really surprise you Kenny?

 

[Rhea]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

Attitudes have changed a lot in the last 40 years. That recording, if made while Nixon was president, was made in the early 1970s. A lot of views that were considered okay at the time aren't any longer. I'm just glad for the progression that this society has made in the last 40 years!

 

[JewelFreak]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

That was FORTY YEARS AGO as Rhea said. I can't imagine why you wonder. There's been more societal change on many fronts in the last 40 years than in the 400 before that. Judging past times by present standards is a good way to drive yourself loco & skew your understanding of history. Nixon was a strange bird anyhow, but what he said was the majority outlook at the time. It was the way it was. I don't mean to sound aggressive, hope it doesn't come across that way, but people varied then as much as now. Maybe more so.

--- Laurie

 

[LaraOnline]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

Scientific advancements since then have fed into profound changes in the way society thinks about ...pretty much everything.

 

[ksinger]

Re: How could an sitting American president say these things

Yes, thrashing about something an American president said 40 years ago, when every other current garden-variety legislator/candidate/judge says far worse things demonizing more groups and with just as little shame, seems like a waste of time. The present is far more pressing. Bottom line, people are frequently mean. They have been since the beginning of time. Even the last 40 years can never change that fact. Still, society is for the most part much further along morally and ethically than it ever was in the past.