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[dramatic musical flourish]
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- It all started in the early morning hours of June 17th
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when, on the sixth floor of the building behind me,
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five men with electronic gear were caught in the offices
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of the Democratic National Committee.
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The building is called The Watergate.
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- Arrested at gunpoint,
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the five suspects had with them bugs and microphones.
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Just who wanted to listen in to the chit-chat
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of the Democratic National Committee remains a mystery.
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- Richard Nixon,
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the man America needs now more than ever.
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[cheers and applause]
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all: Four more years! Four more years!
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- The shadowy trail of the Watergate papers veers
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closer to the White House today.
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[dramatic music]
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"The Washington Post" said the Watergate break in
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was no isolated event,
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but part of a broader effort to spy on democrats
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and sabotage their presidential campaign.
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- No reporter from "The Washington Post"
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should ever be in the White House again.
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Do you understand?
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- The White House denied, and continues to deny,
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involvement in any wrongdoing.
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- There are few signs that Watergate
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is turning any concerns in the electorate.
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- Does a thing like the Watergate affair
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give you any second thoughts?
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- No, no. It doesn't bother me at all.
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- He is the most qualified mn for the job.
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I'm gonna vote for Nixon.
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- This is your vote,
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and years from now,
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I just hope you can all look back
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and say it was one of your best votes.
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Thank you.
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all: Four more years, four more years, four more years.
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- President Nixon will be reelected in a landslide.
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- I, Richard Nixon,
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do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute
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the office of President of the United States,
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so help me God...
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- So help me God.
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- And President Nixon sits in the Oval Office
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for his second term.
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- Well, it's turned out to be a rather cold, blustery day
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here in Washington. The wind chill factor
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is pretty low coming in from the north as that wind is.
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- Here comes the president's car.
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The president being preceded by a fife and drum corps.
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- All the bandsmen in their colonial uniforms.
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If the weather were just a bit warmer,
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I suppose this would be a somewhat more
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festive occasion.
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- Perhaps it's been the weather,
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but the crowds have been very, very light,
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somewhat sparse.
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Not the kind of crowd that one would have hoped for
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on a day like today.
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- Here is a president who has just received
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the greatest popular election victory
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in the history of the country.
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This is his great moment. His great day.
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It must indicate, I suppose, what Vietnam has done to us.
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- Good evening.
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President Nixon is about to address the nation
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on the status of the peace negotiations on Vietnam.
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That is the phrase the White House used
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when it announced the president's
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intention to speak.
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Now, here is the president.
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- We rolling, gentlemen? - All set.
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- All right.
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- Good evening.
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I have asked for this radio and television time tonight
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for the purpose of announcing that we, today,
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have concluded an agreement to end the war
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and bring peace with honor in Vietnam
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and in Southeast Asia.
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The ceasefire will take effet at 2400 Greenwich Mean Time,
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January 27, 1973.
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Within 60 days,
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all American forces will be withdrawn from South Vietnam.
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- It's over now. We're gonna be reunited again.
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President Nixon said we got out of it with honor,
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and I'm happy with that.
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- Seven men went on trial today, charged with the break-in
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and burglary of Democratic National Headquarters
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in the Watergate building last June.
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- Far more is involved here than the guilt or innocence
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of the seven defendants.
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If they are guilty, why did they do it?
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Then, who put them up to it?
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- Good evening. The jury in the Watergate case
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reached a quick verdict late today.
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Guilty on all counts,
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of the break in and bugging
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of National Democratic Committee Headquarters.
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- This was supposed to be the finale for the seven
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Watergate defendants, the day of sentencing.
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Instead, the case broke wide open again.
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- James W. McCord, the one-time security directr
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for the Nixon reelection campaign,
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one of the men convicted in the Watergate affair,
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has apparently decided to tell what he knows about Watergate.
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- Is your client doing this in hopes of getting
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a lighter sentence, or precisely why?
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- I've advised Mr. McCord to be guided
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solely by his own conscience and conviction.
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- McCord says that the trial was marred
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by political pressure, by perjury,
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and that people not on trial were involved.
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- Today, James McCord Jr.
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headed for his appointment at the capital,
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now ready to testify against his co-conspirators
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and those who hired him
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in the politically explosive Watergate conspiracy.
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- "The Los Angeles Times" reporting today McCord
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implicated two Nixon aides, and White House Counsel
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John Dean had prior knowledge of the break in.
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- It's hard to put events of this magnitude in perspectiv.
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Nevertheless, the scandal has now moved right
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to the doorway of the Oval Office in the White House.
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- The president has asked me to announce that he is today
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receiving--
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The president today has requested
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and accepted the resignation of John Dean
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from his position of the White House counsel.
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- Good evening.
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In recent months,
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members of my administration and officials of the committee
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for the reelection of the President,
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including some of my closest friends and most trusted aides,
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have been charged with involvement
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in what has come to be known as The Watergate Affair.
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the men at the top must bear the responsibility.
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That responsibility, therefore, belongs here, in this office.
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I accept it, and I pledge to you tonight, from this office,
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that I will do everything in my power
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to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice,
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and that such abuses are purged from our political processes
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in the years to come,
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long after I have left this office.
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- I don't think that he had anything to do with it.
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- Well, I don't blame the president.
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fooled him quite a bit.
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- Many more things are bothering America
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than Watergate, like the high price of meat,
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you know, and the high cost of living.
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- As of now, we do not know
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many of the details in the Watergate story.
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Perhaps the answers will come in the Senate hearings,
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which start this week with witnesses
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telling what they know, under oath, before the public.
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- Good morning.
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This is the Senate Caucus rom in Washington D.C.,
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as the senate opens what is likely to become
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the most serious investigatin it has ever made,
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an investigation of the American political system
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and the presidency itself.
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- The questions that have been raised in the wake
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of the June 17th break in,
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strike at the very undergirding of our democracy.
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My colleagues on the committee
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and I are determined to uncover
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all the relevant facts surrounding these matters.
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The nation's history itself are watching us.
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We cannot fail our mission.
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- These, of course, are days
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where there's no shortage of controversy
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with the Watergate Committee on Capitol Hill,
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but for a few hours tonight, attention will be shifted awy
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from those problems here at the White House.
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- It isn't that we're trying to keep anything
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from the American people
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that the American people should know,
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but had we not had secrecy,
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you men would still be in Hanoi
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rather than in Washington today.
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- Good morning.
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Although this is not ABC's scheduled day
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to provide live continuous coverage,
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we are going on now with the hearings
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because the witness will be John Dean.
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You see him here with his wife at his right.
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- The Committee will come to order.
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- I met Mr. Dean.
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- Could you please take the microphone
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and put it closer to you so we could all hear it.
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- Certainly.
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The Watergate matter was an inevitable outgrowth
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of a climate of excessive concern over leaks,
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an insatiable appetite for political intelligence,
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all coupled with
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a do-it-yourself White House staff,
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regardless of the law.
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These elements culminated with the creation
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of a covert intelligence operation
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as part of the president's reelection committee.
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I shall now turn to meetings I had with the president
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in February and March of this year
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on Watergate matters specifically.
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I told the president about the fact that there were money
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demands being made by the seven convicted defendants.
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He asked me how much it would cost.
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I told him that it might be as high as a million dollars
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or more.
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He told me that that was no problem.
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I concluded by saying this is going to take continued perjury
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and continued support of these individuals
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to perpetuate the cover-up,
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and I did not believe it was possible to so continue it.
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I told him
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that there was a cancer growing on the presidency,
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and if the cancer was not removed,
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the president himself would be killed by it,
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and he said that it would be handled properly.
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- Now, it is on the public record.
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John Dean's damning, if largely unsubstantiated,
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testimony that the president knowingly participated
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in the Watergate cover-up.
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Nothing less than Richard Nixon's presidency
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may ride on whether the public believes John Dean or not.
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[camera shutters clicking]
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- Today, John Dean ended five days of testimony,
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still insisting that the president
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knew of the Watergate cover-up last year.
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Not in this century has anyone made such accusations
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under oath against a president.
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- The White House is seeking protection from
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the Dean testimony behind a wall of silence.
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The president's spokesman would not reply
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except with "No comment" to any of the charges.
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- You know, there has been talk of your father being--
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a great deal of talk-- being very secluded that
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when he is faced with a problem like some of the Watergate
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developments that there is this wall.
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- Well, I think that there have been a lot of secondhand
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hear--you know, hearsay
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and it's been printed as if it's fact,
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and he hasn't done any wrong.
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- You know, I feel like almost uncomfortable
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asking you these questions, and yet, one must at this time.
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How is your father, Mrs. Eisenhower?
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you know, gets more gray hair every day, that's for sure.
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- President Nixon is resting tonight
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at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
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is that he has a very severe illness, with pneumonia,
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and has the kind of illness
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that ought to be treated in the hospital.
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may have contributed to the illness,
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the doctor responded,
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- Programs regularly scheduld for this time
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will not be seen today in order that we might bring you
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the following special report.
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Watergate: Senate Hearings.
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- State your name.
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- My name is Alexander Porter Butterfield.
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- What were your duties at the White House, Mr. Butterfield?
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- I was responsible for the management
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and ultimate supervision of the office of special files.
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- Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation
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of any devices,
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listening devices, in the Oval Office of the president?
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- I was aware of listening devices;
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yes, sir.
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- On whose authority were they installed, Mr. Butterfield?
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- On the president's authority for posterity.
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- All right. Mr. Butterfield,
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as far as you know from your own personal knowledge,
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all of the president's conversations were recorded,
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as far as you know?
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- That's correct.
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- Mr. Butterfield, in one word,
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to reconstruct the conversations,
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what would be the best way to reconstruct
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those conversations?
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- Well, in the obvious manner, Mr. Dash,
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to obtain the tape and play it.
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- Thank you very much, sir.
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- A startling development,
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certainly critical in regard to Dean's testimony and,
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in essence, the case against the President
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of the United States.
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- Mr. Ron, can you tell us how the president was informed
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about Mr. Butterfield's testimony
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and what his reaction to it was?
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- Well, he was informed by members of his staff
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when we were informed about it.
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I won't give you his reaction to it.
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- Is the president going to release the tapes?
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- Gentlemen, I understand your interest in this subject,
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but this is not the time. Questions on another subject,
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I'll take those. If not--
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- Tell us this, whether those tapes
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are considered presidential documents?
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- I've already told you that I'm not prepared
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to talk about this beyond this.
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- Ron, can you assure us that the tapes are safe?
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- Where are they physically?
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- I thought I had been quite clear earlier when I said
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that I had nothing further to say
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on this particular matter at this point.
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- At some point, are you ever going to be able
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to talk about it?
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- Well, we haven't determined that yet.
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- Thank you very much for your very warm welcome.
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I do want you to know that there is one bit of advice
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that I am not going to take,
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and it will be of interest to our friends in the press.
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[tense music]
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Some people thought that, perhaps,
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the burdens of the office and the rather rough assaults
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this office gets from time to time,
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brings on an illness,
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and that I might get so tired
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that I might consider either slowing down
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or, even some suggested, resigning.
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Well, now, just so we set that to rest,
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any suggestion
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that this president's ever gonna slow down
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while he's president or is ever gonna leave this office
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until he finishes the job he was elected to do,
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anyone who suggests that,
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that's just plain poppycock.
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Let others wallow in Watergate. We're gonna do our job.
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[buzzer blaring]
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- It seems a lot longer, but it was only last week
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that the Senate Watergate Committee
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learned of the existence of tape recordings
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of President Nixon's conversations,
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including conversations bearing on Watergate.
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- I would urge that the tapes be furnished for use
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in my investigation without restriction.
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The request is part of an investigation
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into serious criminal misconduct,
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the obstruction of justice.
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Therefore, it becomes my duty promptly to seek subpoenas.
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The tapes are material and important evidence
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pursuant to a conspiracy and as part of a cover-up.
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- Good evening. The time has come for me
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to speak out about the charges made
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and to provide a perspective on the issue
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for the American people.
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I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in.
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I neither took part in nor knew
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about any of the subsequent cover up activities.
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That was and that is the simple truth.
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Many have urged that in order to help prove the truth
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of what I have said,
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I should turn over to the special prosecutor recordings
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of conversations that I held in my office
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or on my telephone.
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However, these conversations are privileged,
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and their disclosure cannot be compelled.
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I pledge to you tonight that those who would exploit
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Watergate in order to keep us from doing
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what we were elected to do, will not succeed.
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- This is Virginia Sherwood at a Ford Motor Company
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plant near Detroit.
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to the president's Watergate speech.
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- Well, I thought the president was kind of evasive
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in some of the matters that he said.
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- You want a real literal answer?
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- I thought it was a bunch of bananas.
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- Well, I think he's wrong. He should--
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- What do you mean?
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- Well, he should bring them tapes out
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and let the public see what's going on.
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- The number for United Press International, please.
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This is Jim Doyle from Archibald Cox's office.
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I have a statement that I'm gonna read as fast
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as you can take it.
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It's from Special Prosecutor Cox.
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Are you ready?
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"The president is refusing to comply with the court decrees
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"to turn over tapes, and other documents.
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I shall bring this to the attention of the court."
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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some things I feel very deeply about are at stake.
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There has been and is evidence of serious wrongdoing
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on the part of the President of the United States.
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Wrongdoing involving an effort to cover up other wrongdoings.
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- --Will not be seen tonight
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so that we may bring you the following special report.
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- Roll one. Take one.
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- President Nixon has discharged
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Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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- What, are they kicking you out?
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- What can I say, guys?
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- Oh, shit. - Are they seizing files?
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- I can make no further comment now other than our offices
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have been sealed by the FBI.
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- This is nuts.
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- Good evening.
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The president has abolished Special Watergate
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I never thought I'd be announcing these things.
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the Attorney General has resigned.
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At the same time, the Deputy Attorney General
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has been fired.
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All of this adds up
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to a totally unprecedented situation,
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a grave and profound crisis in which the president
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has set himself against
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his own Attorney General of the Department of Justice.
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- Is everybody ready? - Yeah, hold on.
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- Mr. Cox's comment when he was about to be fired was,
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"Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws
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"and not of men is now for congress,
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and ultimately the American people."
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[traffic honking and rumbling]
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- In firing the Special Prosecutor
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and abolishing his entire office,
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Mr. Nixon has made it abundantly clear
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that he does not intend to obey the law of the land.
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The people are beginning to respond.
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The anger and outrage reflected in these telegrams,
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all of them demanding that the congress act
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and impeach the president.
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all: Impeach Nixon now, impeach Nixon now,
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impeach Nixon now.
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- Good evening. The president has agreed to o
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just what he had always said he would not do:
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turn over certain tape recordings
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of his conversations about Watergate.
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- Mr. President! Mr. President!
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- Wondering if you could shae with us your thoughts
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when you hear people
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saying perhaps you should resign or be impeached.
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- Well, I'm glad we don't take the vote
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in this room, let me say.
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- At the risk of reopening an obvious wound,
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what is it about the television coverage
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of you that has so aroused your anger?
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- Gentlemen of the press,
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one can only be angry with those he respects.
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vicious reporting in 27 years of public life,
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but regardless of what people see and hear
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on television, night after night,
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the tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
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I have what it takes.
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- Most interesting.
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Well, as you can see, the president has decided
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to end his news conference himself.
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- Good evening.
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The matter of the president's White House tape recordings
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took an unexpected turn today.
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It is now said by the president's lawyer
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that two of the requested tape recordings do not exist.
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- Do you think the public will believe this story?
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- I don't know.
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- Last night I read a thing on the air
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about the tapes vanishing,
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and the audience thought it was a sick joke.
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- Can't you hear the dialogue in the White House.
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"Pat, now, you know I put those tapes in that drawer."
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[laughter]
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Just every day he does something that interests--
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it's sort of like a rat going around,
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you keep trying to kill it and he gets away.
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I have to have my Watergate fix
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every single morning in the paper.
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I get like this if I haven't gotten it.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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the President of the United States.
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- Mr. President, when did you discover
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that two of the subpoenaed White House tapes
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did not exist?
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- Let me just respond, if I could, sir,
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before going to your question.
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I turn left and then come back to the right.
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I don't want to tilt either way at the moment,
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as you can be sure.
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[mischievous music]
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- Well, today, another bomb exploded,
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more trouble about those subpoenaed tapes.
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♪
544
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- The 18-minute segment of another of the subpoenaed
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Watergate tapes is missing.
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- You can be sure that this kind of a subject
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is one that is a difficult one to explain.
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- Technical experts report that the 18-minute gap
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was caused by erasing and re-recording.
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- Impeach him now!
551
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all: Impeach Nixon now!
552
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Impeach Nixon now!
553
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- Let me just say this, I want to say
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this to the television audience,
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because people have got to know
556
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whether or not their president's a crook.
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Well, I'm not a crook.
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all: Nixon is a crook!
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Nixon is a crook!
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Nixon is a crook!
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Nixon is a crook!
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♪
563
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- Well, now, there's another battle for White House tapes.
564
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000
- Today's subpoena is for 64 conversations
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covering more than 45 hours.
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♪
567
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- The president and his lawyers pursue their hard lie
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on not giving another inch on the Watergate scandal.
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- It was like trench warfare,
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charge after charge over the top.
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- President Nixon will fight the case all the way
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to the Supreme Court.
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- Only a few yards gained and then lost.
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♪
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There wasn't going to be a miracle.
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We couldn't make one happen.
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- History was made today
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as a unanimous Supreme Court
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told the president of the United States
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that he has no right to withhold White House tapes
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subpoenaed for the Watergate cover-up trial.
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♪
583
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- The meeting will come to order.
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Make no mistake about it,
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this is a turning point,
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whatever we decide.
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- Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The president has engaged in a series of actions
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designed to thwart the lawful investigation
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by government prosecutors,
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and I am not going to sit here
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and be an idle spectator to the subversion,
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the destruction of the Constitution.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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the law requires that we decide the case on the evidence.
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Nobody doubts that. On the evidence.
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♪
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There's not a word of presidential knowledge,
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or awareness, or involvement in obstruction of justice.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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I do ask you to judge the proof,
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which is the law of this case.
603
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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♪
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[static clicking]
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♪
607
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- With great reluctance and deep personal sorrow,
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I am prepared to support those portions of article 1
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of the Bill of Impeachment.
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The magnificent career of Richard Nixon
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must be terminated.
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♪
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- Well, thank you very much for calling.
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[phones ringing]
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- White House, may I help you?
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- Yes?
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- Yes, well, it's so good to you to call
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so many times, sir,
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to make certain that the president will not resign.
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- Although resignation appears certain,
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the staff assistant in charge of the phone bank said,
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"We're refusing to believe it
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until we hear it with our own ears."
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♪
625
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- According to United Press International,
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President Nixon will go on the air
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to address the nation tonight
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at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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- It's been a day of incredible suspense,
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but the hard fact is that no one
631
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
really knows what is going on in the president's mind.
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♪
633
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,000
- It was a painful day.
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Tears were brimming in virtually everybody's eye.
635
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000
But the essence of every great leader I have known
636
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is that he was a lonely man.
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♪
638
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What? Okay.
639
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Only the CBS crew now is gonna be in this room.
640
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Only the crew. That's it.
641
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You got it? Now, all Secret Service,
642
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,000
are there any Secret Service in the room?
643
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- Just one agent, Mr. President.
644
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
- Out.
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- 15 seconds to air, please.
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- President Richard Milhous Nixon.
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- Good evening.
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This is the 37th time I have spoken to you
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from this office.
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Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergat,
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I have felt it was my duty to persevere.
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I have never been a quitter.
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To leave office before my tem is completed
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is abhorrent to every instint in my body,
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but as president, I must put the interests
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of America first.
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Therefore, I shall resign the presidency
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effective at noon tomorrow.
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I do so with this prayer:
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May God's grace be with you
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in all the days ahead.
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[soft music]
663
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- This is the culminating act,
664
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the final act of his administration, of course.
665
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- The first president in American history
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to be forced to leave office before the end of his term.
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Mr. Nixon resigning effective at noon tomorrow.
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[whirring]
669
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- This is the south side of the White House
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where, later this morning,
671
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President Nixon and his famiy will be leaving.
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Mr. Nixon will make farewell remarks
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to members of the White House staff, personal friends,
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all of whom have gathered here this morning.
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[applause]
676
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- Now, the president and Mrs. Nixon
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coming into the East Room.
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This will be the last time that he will do it
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as President of the United States.
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- Thank you.
681
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We think, sometimes,
682
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when things happen that don't go the right way,
683
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we think that when we lose an election,
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we think that when we suffer a defeat,
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that all has ended.
686
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Not true.
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It's only a beginning. Always.
688
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And so I say to you on this occasion,
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never get discouraged, never be petty,
690
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always remember, others may hate you,
691
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but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them,
692
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and then you destroy yourself.
693
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- We come to the end of the Nixon years,
694
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years which saw America's greatest political comeback
695
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:04,000
turn into America's greatest political disgrace.
696
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:09,000
- To those who say, "Will you apologize? Are you sorry?"
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There's no way that you could apologize...
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Which would exceed
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resigning the Presidency of the United States.
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That said it all, and I don't intend to say any more.
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[whirring]
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- This will be viewed as a great watersheds of history.
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- Sometimes these watersheds last for about a generation.
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Do you think that as the lessons of, say,
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Watergate are forgotten
706
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we might have to go through something like this again?
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♪
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♪
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