And it’s a tie.

They also weren’t said today, but in the early 1970s. Unfortunately, the off-hand quips were not part of the public record until early this morning, as the National Archives released 150 more hours of White House audio tape. As a consequence, we now have two more gems to add to Richard Nixon’s treasure trove of dark and nasty quotations.

“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”

“What I really think is deep down in this country, there is a lot of anti-Semitism, and all this is going to do is stir it up,” Nixon said. At another point he said, “It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”

Anytime Nixon is mentioned, of course, I can’t help but think of his lifelong arch nemesis Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote, among many other anti-Nixon diatribes, Nixon’s quintessential obituary entitled “He Was A Crook.” Though written in 1994–well past his prime–the eulogy still rings true, especially in light of today’s revelations. The whole piece is worth a read, but here are the final two paragraphs just to give you a sense of Thompson’s no holds barred style:

Nixon’s spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives — whether you’re me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin’s daughter or your fiancee’s 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don’t even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.

He has poisoned our water forever. Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.