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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
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People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
I let the American people down.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
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I let the American people down.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
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Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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Tell them to send everything that can fly.
You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.
If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.
President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.
Solutions are not the answer.
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
I am not a crook.
I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
