Kristin Cohea: The President Calling

I listened to Nixon speak with John Mitchell, specifically focusing on his relationship with the press. While I didn't know much about Nixon and his terms in office besides the Watergate incident and that he was the only president to resign, shortly before he was the only president to be impeached at the time, I was curious as to why this man was so disliked. The specific podcasts I listened to was his conversation- presumably private- that he had with Mitchell about 'duping the press' after they had gotten hold of the names he intended on appointing to the supreme court. He told Mitchell to send them 'twelve more names, just to keep them confused'. But it wasn't so much of the subject that got my attention, it was the president, and the way he talked about it, that irked me. Half the time Mitchell began to speak, Nixon interrupted. He threw words around that seemed extremely rude to me, calling some of the people he intended to give the press 'sanctimonious assholes', telling Mitchell to send the media names of 'Jews or women, I don't really give a damn who.'
From the very beginning of the conversation he just sounded manipulative.