I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers.
It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people - they see me as a betrayer.
Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.
Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.
No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.