Reading this little exchange makes me long for the days when gas was cheap, men walked on the moon, and our president was tanned, rested, and ready.
From the Nixon tapes:
Nixon: Incidentally, what is Rehnquist? I suppose he’s a damn Protestant?
Attorney General John Mitchell: I’m sure of that. He’s just as WASPish as WASPish can be.
Nixon: Yeah, well, that’s too damn bad. Tell him to change his religion.
Mitchell: All right, I’ll get him baptized this afternoon.
Nixon: Well, get him baptized and castrated, no, they don’t do that, I mean they circumcise — no, that’s the Jews. Well anyway, whatever he is, get him changed.
