Nixon - "I Am Not A Crook" — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:01I made a lot of money I made two hundred
3. 0:06and fifty thousand dollars from a book
4. 0:08and the serial rights which many of you
5. 0:10were good enough to purchase also in the
6. 0:12practice of law and I'm not claiming I
7. 0:14was worth it but apparently former vice
8. 0:16presidents or presidents are worth a
9. 0:17great deal to law firms and I did work
10. 0:19pretty hard but in also in that period I
11. 0:22earned between a hundred and two hundred
12. 0:25and fifty thousand dollars every year so
13. 0:28that when I in 1960 decided to become a
14. 0:31candidate for president I decided to
15. 0:33clean the decks and to put everything in
16. 0:35real estate I sold all my stock for
17. 0:38$300,000 that's all I owe I sold my
18. 0:41apartment in New York for $300,000 I'm
19. 0:43using rough papers here and I had
20. 0:45$100,000 coming to me from the law firm
21. 0:48and so that's where the money came from
22. 0:50let me just say this I want to say this
23. 0:53to the television audience I've made my
24. 0:55mistakes
25. 0:56but in all of my years of public life I
26. 0:59have never profited never profited from
27. 1:02public service I've earned every cent
28. 1:05and in all of my years of public life I
29. 1:08have never obstructed justice and I
30. 1:11think too that I could say that in my
31. 1:14years of public life that I welcome this
32. 1:17kind of examination because people have
33. 1:19got to know whether or not their
34. 1:20presidents a crook well I'm not a crook
35. 1:23I earned everything I've got president