'Not an American Concern'

"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews in gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."

Henry Kissinger to Richard Nixon after a 1973 meeting with Golda Meir, who had offered "warm and effusive thanks to Nixon for the way he had treated her and Israel."

SOURCE: "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews And Blacks" by Adam Nagourney, New York Times; December 11, 2010.