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Ronald Reagan: No defence for 'monkeys' remark, says daughter
Source: BBC
Ronald Reagan: No defence for 'monkeys' remark, says daughter
2 August 2019
The daughter of the late former US President Ronald Reagan has said there is "no defence" for racist comments he made in a 1971 phone conversation.
Newly unearthed tapes reveal Reagan - then Governor of California - described UN African delegates as "monkeys".
His daughter Patti Davis condemned the remarks in a newspaper article.
"There is no defence, no rationalisation, no suitable explanation for what my father said," she wrote.
Ms Davis wrote in an article for the Washington Post that she was preparing to defend her father before she heard the tapes, but was appalled to hear what the former president said.
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2 August 2019
The daughter of the late former US President Ronald Reagan has said there is "no defence" for racist comments he made in a 1971 phone conversation.
Newly unearthed tapes reveal Reagan - then Governor of California - described UN African delegates as "monkeys".
His daughter Patti Davis condemned the remarks in a newspaper article.
"There is no defence, no rationalisation, no suitable explanation for what my father said," she wrote.
Ms Davis wrote in an article for the Washington Post that she was preparing to defend her father before she heard the tapes, but was appalled to hear what the former president said.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49207451
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Related: The Ronald Reagan who raised me would want forgiveness for his ‘monkeys’ remark (Patti Davis Washington Post op-ed)
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