Carolina QuotesYou look at the World Series World Series, for God's sake, and what would either of these teams, what would Pittsburgh be without a helluva lot of blacks? And music, and the dance. Are these things just to be pissed upon? Hell, no. They are important. And in certain areas, poetry, etc., they have a free-and-easy style that adds enormously to our culture. But on the other hand, when you get to some of the more profound, rigid disciplines, basically, they have a helluva time making it. . . . In terms of good lawyers, even though a lot of them go to law schools, it really is not their dish of tea. See?
Richard Nixon Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Fall of 1971, conversation with Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan; as qtd. in James Warren, "Unvarnished Nixon c. 1971: Bigotry revealed in tapes", Chicago Tribune, June 3, 2001.
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- Tape transcripts (1971)
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- 1971
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