Nixon I'm not a crook — Transcript

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1. 0:00eight years
2. 0:02I made a lot of money
3. 0:05I made 250 000 from a book and the
4. 0:09serial rights which many of you were
5. 0:10good enough to purchase also
6. 0:12in the practice of Law and I'm not
7. 0:14claiming I was worth it but apparently
8. 0:15former vice presidents or presidents are
9. 0:17worth a great deal to law firms and I
10. 0:19did work pretty hard
11. 0:20but in also in that period
12. 0:23I earned between 100 and 250 000 every
13. 0:27year
14. 0:28so that when I in 1968 decided to become
15. 0:31a candidate for president I decided to
16. 0:34clean the decks and to put everything in
17. 0:36real estate I sold all my stock for
18. 0:38three hundred thousand dollars that's
19. 0:39all I owe I sold my apartment in New
20. 0:42York for three hundred thousand dollars
21. 0:43I'm using rough victims here and I had a
22. 0:46hundred thousand dollars coming to me
23. 0:47from the law firm and so that's where
24. 0:49the money came from
25. 0:51let me just say this
26. 0:52and I want to say this to the television
27. 0:54audience I made my mistakes but in all
28. 0:57of my years of public life
29. 0:59I have never profited never profited
30. 1:03from public service I've earned every
31. 1:05cent
32. 1:05and in all of my years the public life
33. 1:08I have never obstructed Justice
34. 1:11and I think too that I could say that in
35. 1:14my years of public life
36. 1:16that I welcome this kind of examination
37. 1:18because people have got to know whether
38. 1:20or not they are president's a Crump well
39. 1:22I'm not a crook I burned everything I've
40. 1:25got
41. 1:27president