Tapes: Nixon Called Reagan 'Strange'

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - President Nixon apparently didn't think much of Ronald Reagan, calling his fellow California Republican `strange' and an `uncomfortable man to be around,' according to White House tapes released Wednesday.

The comments are included in 240 hours of Nixon White House tape recordings from July through October 1972 that were released by the National Archives. Nixon is heard discussing his re-election campaign against Democratic nominee George McGovern, ways to end the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal that eventually brought down his administration.

Talking politics with White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman at Camp David in August 1972, Nixon switched the conversation to two Republican governors: Reagan and New York's Nelson Rockefeller. Both unsuccessfully sought the 1968 Republican presidential nomination that Nixon received.

Nixon described Rockefeller as ``sort of bouncy and upbeat'' while Reagan ``just isn't pleasant to be around.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3489966,00.html


A very interesting read, considering the recent rash of Regean to re-emerge. The old Republicans didn't like him and were scared, Neo-cons freaked them out, too...good to know.

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1. Breaking: Freepers planning boycott of Nixon

and a boycott of all casette manufactuers.

That will teach a dead man to bad-mouth the golden calf of the GOP!