I am Not a Crook - Richard M. Nixon and Watergate — Transcript

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1. 0:00the beginning for the end of Richard
2. 0:02Nixon began on June 17th 1972 when five
3. 0:05men were arrested for breaking into the
4. 0:07Democratic National Committee at the
5. 0:09Watergate office in Washington DC
6. 0:18mr. president
7. 0:52it was discovered that the burglars were
8. 0:55former members of the committee for the
9. 0:57re-election of the President and then
10. 0:59the break-in was funded by the committee
11. 1:00when the Watergate burglars went on
12. 1:02trial James W McCord revealed several
13. 1:05legalities and abuses of power within
14. 1:06the White House
15. 1:09this wasn't the first development in the
16. 1:12Nixon administration to raise suspicion
17. 1:14a few months prior to the Watergate
18. 1:15break-in a group called the White House
19. 1:17plumbers unit attempted to find files on
20. 1:19Daniel Ellsberg by breaking into a
21. 1:20psychiatrist's office
22. 1:21Daniel Ellsberg was the man leaked the
23. 1:23Pentagon Papers which revealed the true
24. 1:24history of the Vietnam War
25. 1:28[Music]
26. 1:45the
27. 1:49[Music]
28. 2:05you
29. 2:09[Music]
30. 2:34Thank You president damper house money I
31. 2:36do
32. 2:37please except it's their bra mmm
33. 2:55Nixon's involvement in the Watergate
34. 2:57scandal started to become clear when he
35. 2:58began to obstruct investigations of the
36. 3:00break-in and give hush money to the
37. 3:01burglars
38. 3:11[Music]
39. 3:16mr. president we have some new
40. 3:19information regarding the larvae crisis
41. 3:21really now yep despite accusations and
42. 3:34suspicions Nixon is reelected in
43. 3:36November 1972 and carried every state
44. 3:38except Massachusetts making the first
45. 3:40Republican candidate to carry all of the
46. 3:42south
47. 3:45members of the White House staff begin
48. 3:47to resign along with Attorney General
49. 3:49Richard client iced white house counsel
50. 3:51John Dean who claimed the Watergate
51. 3:53scandal with a cancer on the presidency
52. 3:55is fired
53. 3:56Dean later states but D discussed the
54. 3:59Watergate cover-up with Nixon at least
55. 4:0135 times mr. president
56. 4:04letter gait the cancer on the presidency
57. 4:07Watergate is fake news and never
58. 4:10happened I was not involved I don't know
59. 4:13why talking about and get out of my
60. 4:15office
61. 4:15okely-dokely mister from you hire I
62. 4:19resign effective immediately
63. 4:23I quit you don't quit you're fired
64. 4:33boys what are you doing without your
65. 4:36uniforms mr. president our Lord and
66. 4:39Savior Richard Milhous Nixon was first
67. 4:41yes that is my official title
68. 4:44I'm sorry mr. president with one shot we
69. 4:50have to command if you do if you was
70. 4:54known that we're in it
71. 5:02yeah too much of a risk sex huh
72. 5:07get out of my office I do not want to
73. 5:09see you ever be honest
74. 5:11yeah out yeah mr. president you letter
75. 5:17gate the cancer on the presidency water
76. 5:21date is fake news it never happened
77. 5:24I was not involved I don't know why
78. 5:27talking about and get out of my office
79. 5:29okely-dokely mister from you hi hey I
80. 5:34hear Nixon's got some two tapes go check
81. 5:36it out
82. 5:42[Music]
83. 5:52ladies to the fennel Valley I've made my
84. 5:55mistakes when all my years of public
85. 5:57life I have never probably never
86. 6:00profited from public service I've earned
87. 6:03ever since in all my years of public
88. 6:06life I have never obstructed justice
89. 6:09people got to know whether or not their
90. 6:12president is a crook long enough I've
91. 6:16earned everything I've got Spiro Agnew
92. 6:21Nixon's vice president resigns after it
93. 6:23was revealed that he was involved in the
94. 6:25scandal where he received bribes as the
95. 6:27governor of Maryland and the vice
96. 6:28president he is then replaced by Gerald
97. 6:31Ford
98. 6:38you're corrupt down here
99. 6:43[Music]
100. 6:53why don't you put the plunger on the
101. 6:55table but something happened in here
102. 7:12what it is ain't exactly clear there's a
103. 7:18man with a gun over there
104. 7:21I tell him me back that you wear
105. 7:27thank you time we stop children what
106. 7:29that time everybody looks what's going
107. 7:33[Applause]
108. 7:33[Music]
109. 7:44nothing wrong nobody's right if the
110. 7:49robot is wrong young people speak in
111. 7:54their mind I didn't do so much
112. 7:58resistance call me the Supreme Court
113. 8:24unanimously ruled that Nixon must
114. 8:26release the tapes in the United States
115. 8:27be Richard am Nixon almost immediately
116. 8:30the process for impeachment begins years
117. 8:35in jail if today's Nixon becomes the
118. 8:39first president in history to resign
119. 8:41from office this is a very subtle time
120. 8:44I've spoken to you from those office
121. 8:46where so many decisions have been made
122. 8:47to shape the history of this nation each
123. 8:50time I have done so to discuss with you
124. 8:52some matter I believe back in the
125. 8:54national interest and all of those
126. 8:56visions that I have made my public life
127. 8:58I've always tried to do what was best in
128. 9:00the nation throughout the long and
129. 9:02difficult period of Watergate I felt was
130. 9:05my duty to preserve and to make every
131. 9:08possible effort to complete the term of
132. 9:09office to which you elected me in the
133. 9:12past few days however has become heaven
134. 9:14to me and I no longer had a strong
135. 9:16enough political base in the Congress to
136. 9:18justify continuing that effort as long
137. 9:21as there was such a base I felt strongly
138. 9:23it was necessary to see the
139. 9:25constitutional process bridge was
140. 9:27concluded that to do otherwise would be
141. 9:30unfaithful to the spirit of that
142. 9:32deliberately difficult process the
143. 9:34dangerously destabilizing precedent for
144. 9:36the future
145. 9:37the disappearance of that date I now
146. 9:40believe that the constitutional Birdman
147. 9:42has been served and there's no longer
148. 9:44need for the process be prolonged I were
149. 9:47preferred to carry grease to finish
150. 9:49whatever personal agony it would have
151. 9:51involved and my family you Nancy urged
152. 9:54me to do so but the interest of the
153. 9:56nation must always come before any
154. 9:58personal considerations from discussions
155. 10:01I've had with congressional and other
156. 10:03leaders I have concluded that because of
157. 10:05the Watergate matter I might not have
158. 10:07the support of the Congress that I would
159. 10:09concern necessary to bad with very
160. 10:11difficult decisions and carry out the
161. 10:13duties of this office and the way the
162. 10:16interests of the nation would require I
163. 10:18have never met a quitter to leave office
164. 10:21before my term is completed is abhorrent
165. 10:23to every instinct in my body but as
166. 10:26president I must put the interests of
167. 10:28America first America needs a full-time
168. 10:30president and a full-time Congress
169. 10:33particularly at this time with problems
170. 10:36we face at home and abroad to continue
171. 10:39to fight through the months ahead from
172. 10:42my personal vindication would almost
173. 10:44totally absorb the time and attention of
174. 10:46both the president and the Congress a
175. 10:48period when our entire focus to being
176. 10:50the great issues of peace abroad and
177. 10:52prosperity without inflation at home
178. 10:54therefore I shall resign the presidency
179. 10:58effective at noon tomorrow
180. 11:01Nihal god bless good
181. 11:12if you write love you have faith in God
182. 11:18[Music]
183. 11:24you believe in rock and roll and music
184. 11:29save your mortal soul and can you teach
185. 11:33me how to dance
186. 11:34[Music]
187. 11:37well I know that you're in love with him
188. 11:41cause I saw you dancing in the gym you
189. 11:45both keep dogs you teenage rock and
190. 11:55boxes will please carnation and a pickup
191. 11:58truck but I knew I knew the day
192. 12:04[Music]