David Frost confronts Richard Nixon on Watergate scandal — Transcript

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1. 0:03I let the American people
2. 0:06down and I have to carry that burden
3. 0:08with me for the rest of my
4. 0:11[Music]
5. 0:20life you got caught up in something and
6. 0:23then it snowball it was my
7. 0:25fault I'm not blaming anybody else
8. 0:30now reading as you've requested the
9. 0:32thing in the whole cont let me just stop
10. 0:34you right
11. 0:36there I want to say right here and now I
12. 0:40said things that were not
13. 0:43true if I try and rob a bank and fail
14. 0:46that's no defense I still tried to rub a
15. 0:48back I did not have a corrupt
16. 0:52motive what did Holderman tell you
17. 0:56during the 18 and 1/2 minute Gap there
18. 0:58was no cover up of any criminal activity
19. 1:01that is obstruction of justice just a
20. 1:02off that's your
21. 1:05conclusion I did not commit in my VI an
22. 1:08impeachable offense I was concerned
23. 1:10about whether or not the other side was
24. 1:12bugging us I cut off one arm then cut
25. 1:14off the other no I don't interpret that
26. 1:16that way at all call that conversation I
27. 1:18said things that were not true I brought
28. 1:21myself why didn't you stop it I gave
29. 1:25them a
30. 1:26sword and they stuck it in
31. 1:31and they Twisted it with relish