Roy,
Your mother-in-law is correct in all of her assumptions.
Your quote “ I am a republican and a practicing Christian. I am not a racist. I believe that minorities have a right to live in America as long as they recognize who made this country what it is.”
WTF is this bullshit? You are terribly racist and sexist, you recognize those facts of course.
And here is another fact you might like to recognize. The republican party has made this country what it is today. A country that is not taking an interest in it’s citizenry, with the worst health care for an industrialized nation, run away political and corporate corruption, high unemployment, and likely to go bankrupt while the likes of you are stuffing their pockets at every opportunity.
Yes, you are a republican alright, but a practicing Christian?
What are the Christians practicing these days, the inquisition is over, your priests are still molesting young boys, Jim and Tammy have flopped?
I am happy to hear that the Christians are still practicing, maybe they’ll get it right some day.

Al

Now I understand why there are so many commercials about drugs we never knew we needed…Roy, you forgot to take yours.

Tuesday’s batch of 150 hours of recordings included a 20-minute February 21, 1973 conversation between Nixon and evangelist Billy Graham, an unappealing sequel of sorts to a conversation they’d had the previous year about Jewish control of the media.

This time, they’re primarily talking about Jewish opposition to Christian evangelical efforts, which they both agreed would make Americans turn against the Jewish community. Nixon seems to believe that if the Jews simply “behaved” themselves, there wouldn’t be any problems.

“Deep down in this country there is a lot of anti-Semitism. All this is going to do is stir it up,” said Nixon.

Graham agrees, responding that anti-Semitism in America is “right under the surface” and that this will bring it “right to the top.”

Nixon continues, “Anti-Semitism is stronger than we think. You know, it’s unfortunate. But this has happened to the Jews. It happened in Spain, it happened in Germany, it’s happening — and now it’s going to happen in America if these people don’t start behaving.”

A little later in the 20-minute conversation, Nixon says there’s nothing he wants to do more than to be a friend of both Israel and American Jews, but says that he will “have to turn back a terrible tide here if they don’t get a hold of it themselves.”

“They better understand it quick, because there are elements in this country, not just the Birchers, but a lot of reasonable people that are getting awfully sick of it.” The term Birchers is an reference to members of the extreme right-wing John Birch Society.

When Graham talks of how many leaders “in the church are shaken by this” because they have “been the most pro-Israel” and are now “being attacked,” Nixon says about Jews that “it may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”

Graham then starts discussing how “so many” Jewish young people “are turning away from Judaism” and that’s “scaring” Jews “to death.” He specifically cites “Jews for Jesus” efforts on campus as “frightening” Jewish leaders and leading to an overreaction.

The most distrurbing portion of the conversation comes when Graham appears to blame Jews for pornography.

During one of their exchanges about the need for Jews to behave, Graham interjects, “The Bible talks about two kinds of Jews. One is called the synagogue of Satan, they’re the ones putting out pornographic literature, they’re the ones putting out these obscene films.” Nixon then interrupts to talk about articles in Time and Newsweek magazines that he apparently believed to be inappropriate.
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Philis

I await the help Madaline promised us. If she gives us help, we are going to fight this regime.