re: #86 Jay C

Minor correction: the Indian invasion and seizure of Goa (and the other bits of Portuguese India) occurred in December of 1961, so it was the Kennedy Admin, not Nixon’s, who were in place to criticize it.
And it seems that US displeasure at the Indian action was not so much support for Portuguese fascists, but a general disapproval of seizure of territory by force (always a Bad Thing when done by somebody else).
Also, the Soviets and their bloc were generally approving of the Indian action, so there was that…

You are correct. I’m confusing my dates. Too many wars to keep track of in the XX Century.

Nixon’s declassified tapes in 2020 showed Nixon’s racism and sexual repulsion toward India and support of Salazar, but that was after Goa had been already conquered. Those ideas are what drove Nixon’s foreign policy against India (driving India closer to the Soviet Union during that period).

Nixon also calls Indians “most sexless”, “nothing” and “pathetic”, according to the tapes.

“As Americans grapple with problems of racism and power, a newly declassified trove of White House tapes provides startling evidence of the bigotry voiced by President Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser,” Gary Bass, professor at Princeton, wrote in an opinion piece ‘The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism’ in The New York Times.

Richard Nixon, a Republican, was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974.

Nixon said in a conversation that Indian women are “undoubtedly the most unattractive women in the world.”

“The full content of these tapes reveal how the US policy toward South Asia under Nixon was influenced by his hatred of, and sexual repulsion toward, Indians,” Bass says. He is the author of ‘The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide.’

Declassified: Former US Prez Nixon called Indians ‘pathetic, most sexless’ (The Federal, September 5, 2020)

Such an attitude by the Republican president and his Secretary of State might also explain some of the hatred shown toward Vice-President Harris today (besides Black).