Reagan called Nixon to slur Africans as ‘monkeys.’ Of course there are tapes - The Washington Post

"To see those, those monkeys from those African countries—damn them, they're still uncomfortable wearing shoes!" then-California Governor Ronald Reagan said....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/07/31/reagan-called-president-nixon-slur-africans-monkeys-course-there-are-tapes/