Saint Ronnie was a racist, too

Former President Ronald Reagan in a newly unearthed tape disparaged [UN delegates] from African countries during a phone call with then-President Richard Nixon while Reagan was governor of California.

Reagan called Nixon in October 1971 — the day after a landmark United Nations vote to recognize the People’s Republic of China — and referenced how the Tanzanian delegation was dancing in the General Assembly after the vote, according to an audio clip of the exchange posted by The Atlantic.

"Last night, I tell you, to watch that thing on television as I did,” Reagan says.

“Yeah,” Nixon cuts in.

Reagan replies, laughing: "To see those, those monkeys from those African countries — damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!"

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The clip was unearthed by Tim Naftali, the former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, who wrote in The Atlantic that the racist exchange was removed from the original tape when it was released in 2000 due to privacy concerns.

  The Hill

"Privacy concerns." Right.

In another audio clip, Nixon spoke with then-Secretary of State William Rogers and told him about his exchange with Reagan.

"As you can imagine," Nixon said to Rogers, "there's strong feeling that we just shouldn't, as [Reagan] said, he saw these ... cannibals on television last night, and he says, 'Christ, they weren't even wearing shoes, and here the United States is going to submit its fate to that,' and so forth and so on."

And what was Nixon's reply to Reagan?

If you didn't already understand that every Republican president in modern history has been a white supremacist, you've not been paying attention.  George W Bush, of all people, was probably the least racist, and that, it seems had more to do with his fascination with black women.  Don't quote me.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.