Gay nixon

In the 1971 recordings, which can be heard on Vanity Fair's website, Nixon describes himself as "the most tolerant person," even if he remains hesitant to incorporate those views into a national policy, in a discussion with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman ahead of an annual youth conference.

That’s all. But you show me a girl that swears and I’ll show you an awful unattractive person. “We all do it. … I mean, all femininity is gone. Nero, of course, was, in a public way, in with a boy in Rome.

He then adds, "By God, I am not going to have a situation where we pass along a law indicating, 'Well, now, kids, just go out and be gay.' They can do it.

You know that.

"Boy Scout leaders, YMCA leaders and others bring them in that direction and teachers," Nixon said.

[But] my point is that Boy Scout leaders, YMCA leaders, and others bring them in that direction, and teachers. "They have a problem. "You know, it's none of our business how they treat their people."

And the president who famously thawed relations with Communist China found the Chinese baffling.

"You never can predict how the Chinese are," he told Kissinger.

And 5 million of them, popped into bake ovens!

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In 2013, CNN published an excerpt from another audio tape, which was said to have been recorded sometime during Nixon's time in the Oval Office from 1969-1974. But the great irony is that he saw that taping system as a way to help him write the history of his presidency. I think they are. We all swear.

Just leave them alone,” he said in the 43-year-old Oval Office chat. Jesus Christ!

Once a society moves in that direction, the vitality goes out of that society."

In that same discussion, with his chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, Nixon also revealed his views on women who curse.

"A man drunk and a man who swears - people will tolerate and say that's a sign of masculinity or something other damn thing.

That's all. "But you show me a girl who swears, and I'll show you an awful unattractive person."

The audio clips were released by Vanity Fair, which published an excerpt from the upcoming book, "The Nixon Tapes" by Douglas Brinkley and Luke Nichter.

One transcript suggests Nixon was worried about Kissinger, one of his closest aides, getting too involved in Middle East policy because Kissinger was Jewish.

"You know, put yourself in his position," Nixon told Haldeman.

And if you look over the history of societies, you will find, of course, that some of the highly intelligent people . "And if you look over the history of societies, you will find, of course, that some of the highly intelligent people - Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, etc., etc., etc., were all homosexuals ... .

Nixon, who died in 1994 at 81, appears to have had a checkered stance when it came to gay and lesbian rights.