Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190802:00:52:00
When the national archives originally released the tape of this conversation back in 2000, the racist portion was apparently withheld to protect reagan's privacy. for almost 20 years we didn't have this pretty important piece of information about how ronald reagan thought about the world. ronald reagan the conservative hero who's largely responsible for popularizing the term and concept of the welfare queen. we have had tapes of nixon saying extremely racist things for years. he was also a notorious violent anti-semite. it's not just these two men. the racial politics of the post-goldwater con...