Former US President Richard Nixon described Indian women as “the most unattractive women in the world” and the “most sexless”, claimed US professor Gary J.Bass in an opinion piece Thursday.
In a column for The New York Times, Bass attributed these quotes to a set of newly declassified White House tapes of the US president’s conversations with Henry Kissinger, who was his National Security Advisor (NSA).
The tapes were released by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, according to Bass, who is a professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University and has also authored The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.
The book, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, was about the 1971 India-Pakistan war that led to the creation of Bangladesh.Nixon was the 37th US president, serving in office from 1969 to 1974.
They are repulsive and it’s just easy to be tough with them,” he added.In another instance, on 12 November 1971, while discussing the India-Pakistan war with Kissinger and his Secretary of State William P.Rogers, Nixon has been quoted as saying, “I don’t know how they reproduce!”
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