More New Nixon Tapes

Better than the arrival of a new phone book (See Steve Martin in The Jerk ), it's eleven hours of new Nixon Tapes and 78,000 pages of new documents from the National Archives!

According to the NARA press release:

"Most of the documents being released today come from a special file created by the Nixon White House in 1972 for politically sensitive materials....These materials provide new insight into the political strategies of the Nixon White House and Richard Nixon's 1968 and 1972 Presidential campaigns....The materials include correspondence with or about many important politicians and public figures, including George H. W. Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, Billy Graham, Frank Sinatra, O. J. Simpson, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dole."

Early reports are coming in and it turns out Nixon was an insecure, paranoid, mean-spirited anti-Semite.

Nixon: "But if (Len) Garment stays on, and, which is probably likely. You know, somebody's got to handle the bicentennial and all that nonsense. He's very good at it. Let him be the House Jew, don't you agree?"

Huh, who'da guessed it, ya know?

Another gem reported by ABC News: Nixon says the difference between McGovern and Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew is that: "Agnew has dignity."

Perhaps the bigger news is that the Nixon Library has now become a real Presidential library (Nixon Presidential Library & Museum) run by National Archives with credible professionals at the helm. No more will visitors be informed that Watergate was a coup.