More than 200 hours of new recordings from Richard Nixon's Oval Office released Friday offer colorful and distateful comments made by the former president about various ethnic groups, including Jews, blacks, Italians and the Irish.

Nixon prefaced his comments by saying he wasn't prejudiced. Instead, he said all people just have "certain traits."

The L.A. Times offers a quick rundown of the comments here, and the N.Y Times goes deeper into the recordings here.