Frasi di Richard Nixon
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Richard Milhous Nixon è stato un politico statunitense, 37º Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America.

Vinse le elezioni presidenziali del 1968 e del 1972, rimanendo in carica dal gennaio del 1969 all'agosto del 1974. Fra le sue politiche vi furono il progressivo disimpegno di uomini sul campo nella guerra del Vietnam in favore di bombardamenti, diplomazia e guerra segreta, l'apertura alla Cina in chiave antisovietica e alla ricerca di nuovi sbocchi di mercato, l'anticomunismo e la libertà d'impresa, un parziale sostegno ai diritti civili in particolare nella lotta contro il segregazionismo, l'escalation proibizionista verso le droghe leggere, l'istituzionalizzazione delle prime politiche ambientali e la ricerca di una riforma complessiva delle cure sanitarie che mantenesse il ruolo fondamentale delle imprese private piuttosto che del settore pubblico.

È stato l'unico presidente statunitense a dimettersi dalla carica. Le sue dimissioni avvennero il 9 agosto 1974, per anticipare l'imminente impeachment in seguito allo scandalo Watergate. Nixon fu anche il primo presidente degli Stati Uniti nato sulla West Coast, ossia nel settore americano affacciato sull'Oceano Pacifico: Barack Obama è il secondo.

Richard Nixon rimane uno dei presidenti più controversi della storia degli Stati Uniti. Durante il mandato e soprattutto nei primi anni dopo le dimissioni, fu duramente criticato il suo metodo di governo, che non escludeva pressioni e interferenze anche illegali sia negli affari interni che nelle relazioni internazionali; la sua politica di guerra in Indocina fu ritenuta immorale, al di fuori dei limiti costituzionali ed eccessivamente bellicosa; fu contestata la sua tendenza a circondarsi di collaboratori fidati, ma dal discutibile comportamento.

Le sue dimissioni e la parziale ammissione delle sue colpe hanno gravemente pregiudicato dal punto di vista storico la valutazione complessiva della sua presidenza.

✵ 9. Gennaio 1913 – 22. Aprile 1994   •   Altri nomi Richard Milhous Nixon, Ричард Никсон
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“Per anni i politici hanno promesso la luna: io sono il primo in grado di darvela.”

Origine: Citato in Dizionario mondiale di Storia, Rizzoli Larousse, Milano, 2003, p. 826. ISBN 88-525-0077-4

“Vi sono circostanze in cui l'aborto è necessario. Lo so bene. Quando un genitore è nero e l'altro è bianco. Oppure in caso di stupro.”

Origine: Da una conversazione desecretata dei primi mesi del 1973; citato in Christopher Hitchens, Quando l'America era in mano a un presidente razzista https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/luglio/05/Quando_America_era_mano_presidente_co_8_090705022.shtml, Corriere della Sera, 5 luglio 2009.

“[Ultime parole famose, nel luglio 1974] Non lascerò la Casa Bianca.”

Origine: Citato in Focus n. 88, p. 102.

“Lenin stabilì il corso, ma Stalin instaurò il governo di ferro.”

Origine: La vera guerra, p. 76

“Il terrorismo minaccia tutti i governi, tranne quelli che lo praticano.”

Origine: La vera guerra, p. 52

Richard Nixon: Frasi in inglese

“I wouldn't put out a statement praising it, but we're not going to condemn it either. [Nixon's comment about the atrocities and genocide committed by the West Pakistan government against Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War]”

Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XI, South Asia Crisis, 1971, https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/xi/45650.htm,and The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
1970s

“I leave you gentleman now. You will now write it; you will interpret it; that's your right. But as I leave you I want you to know…. just think how much you're going to be missing. You don't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference, and I hope that what I have said today will at least make television, radio, the press recognize that they have a right and a responsibility, if they're against a candidate give him the shaft, but also recognize if they give him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign who'll report what the candidate says now and then. Thank you, gentlemen, and good day.”

Richard Nixon libro The Memoirs of Richard Nixon

Press conference after losing the election for Governor of California (November 7, 1962) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMSb-tS_OM; most reports used an official "Transcript of Nixon's News Conference on His Defeat by Brown in Race for Governor of California", as published in "The New York Times" (November 8, 1962), p. 18, also used in RN : The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) and most published accounts which ended "You don't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference and it will be one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you."
1960s

“You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana are Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.”

Statement (26 May 1971) as quoted in Newsweek (27 May 2004) http://web.archive.org/web/20060614124156/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5079259/site/newsweek/
1970s

“I can't ever say that, but I believe it.”

Responding to Rev. Billy Graham's assertion that the Jews have a "stranglehold" on the media that "has to be broken or the country's going down the drain." Quoted in The New Yorker (15 April 2002) https://archive.is/20130630000743/www.newyorker.com/shouts/content/articles/020415sh_shouts1
2000s

“The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards.”

Nixon to Bob Haldeman (1 February 1972) as quoted in Counterpunch (12 March 2002) http://www.counterpunch.org/alexgraham.html
1970s

“As long as I'm sitting in the chair, there's not going to be any Jew appointed to that court. [No Jew] can be right on the criminal-law issue.”

National Review (19 November 2001) http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_22_53/ai_79665375/pg_2
2000s

“I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.”

I've earned everything I've got.
Televised press conference with 400 Associated Press Managing Editors at Walt Disney World, Florida. (17 November 1973)
Often transcribed as "I am not a crook."
'I Am Not A Crook': How A Phrase Got A Life Of Its Own http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245830047, on National Public Radio
1970s

“1 in 10 chance perhaps, but save Chile! worth spending; not concerned; no involvement of embassy; $10,000,000 available, more if necessary; full-time job — best men we have; game plan; make the economy scream; 48 hours for plan of action.”

Notes taken down by CIA director Richard Helms on Nixon's orders for a plan against Salvador Allende of Chile. (15 September 1970); Document reproduced as part of George Washington University's National Security Archive. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch26-01.htm
1970s

“I didn’t notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of those lists; I don’t know how the hell they avoid it. If you look at the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately Jewish. The deserters”

Conversation with Mr. Colson, on tapes recorded February-March 1973 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/national/20101211_NIXON_AUDIO/3_VIETNAM.mp3; as quoted in "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/us/politics/11nixon.html, by Adam Nagourney,New York Times (10 December 2010)
1970s

“I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.”

As quoted in The Rehnquist Choice (2001) by John Dean; also in "Double Dipping at the Waffle House" by Dahlia Lithwick http://slate.msn.com/id/117140/ in Slate (11 October 2001)
2000s

“You don't want to know.”

Responding to Senator Howard Baker who asked him the question: "What do you know about the Kennedy assassination?" Quoted in Oral History Interview with Don Hewitt (8 October 2002)
2000s

“Nixon: Within groups, there are geniuses. There are geniuses within black groups. There are more within Asian groups … This is knowledge that is better not to know.”

Fall of 1971, conversation with Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan http://nixontapeaudio.org/chron2/rmn_e010b.mp3; as qtd. in Tim Naftali, “Ronald Reagan’s Long-Hidden Racist Conversation With Richard Nixon” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/ronald-reagans-racist-conversation-richard-nixon/595102/, The Atlantic, (Jul 30, 2019)
1970s, Tape transcripts (1971)

“Someone is saying we are contemplating sending aid to help the Pakistani refugees. I hope to hell we’re not.”

Origine: FRUS, Nixon-Haig telcon, 29 April 1971, p. 99. quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.

“I don't know how they reproduce!.. They are a scavenging people.”

1970s, Tape transcripts (1971)
Origine: On Nov. 12, 1971, in the middle of a discussion about India-Pakistan tensions with Henry Kissinger and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, after Rogers mentioned reprimanding Indira Gandhi. Conversation 617-009 https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/617/conversation-617-009 of the White House Tapes. Quoted https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/nixon-racism-india.html The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism] (September, 3, 2020) by Gary J. Bass, [[The New York Times

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