Newly discovered 1959 letter: Nixon feared American racism would drive world into the arms of the ...
Newly discovered 1959 letter: Nixon feared American racism would drive world into the arms of the ...
- In the last hundred years, the US and the Russians fought two world wars as allies and waged a long Cold War as adversaries. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, there was a Red Scare domestically and a second Red Scare following the end of World War II. A newly surfaced letter from Richard Nixon was written against such a backdrop. The 1959 letter was written on official Office of the Vice President stationary and was addressed to Mrs. M. S. Richardson in La Grange, North Carolina on the subject of school integration. In the letter, Nixon made the case that domestic American racism could help the Russians win the Cold War.
- In the last hundred years, the US and the Russians fought two world wars as allies and waged a long Cold War as adversaries. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, there was a Red Scare domestically and a second Red Scare following the end of World War II. A newly surfaced letter from Richard Nixon was written against such a backdrop. The 1959 letter was written on official Office of the Vice President stationary and was addressed to Mrs. M. S. Richardson in La Grange, North Carolina on the subject of school integration. In the letter, Nixon made the case that domestic American racism could help the Russians win the Cold War.
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