Richard Nixon & Watergate Scandal Music Video: "I am not a Crook" — Transcript

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1. 0:00and i want to say this to the television
2. 0:02audience i made my mistakes
3. 0:04but in all of my years of public life
4. 0:07i have never profited never profited
5. 0:10from public service i've earned every
6. 0:12cent and in all of my years the public
7. 0:15life
8. 0:16i have never obstructed justice and i
9. 0:19think too
10. 0:20that i could say that in my years of
11. 0:22public life
12. 0:24that i welcome this kind of examination
13. 0:26because people have got to know
14. 0:27whether or not their president is a
15. 0:29crook well i'm not a crook
16. 0:31i've earned everything i've got
17. 0:55i ain't done nothing
18. 1:10i tell kissinger do whatever i say
19. 1:13he's my second state better obey
20. 1:15politics from sunday
21. 1:17to next sunday 37th pres man it ain't
22. 1:20child's play
23. 1:21yup it's time to win my second term the
24. 1:24democratic candidate george mcgovern's a
25. 1:26beard worm i'm running with
26. 1:28fire i'm saying spiro better hold firm
27. 1:30you know my vp
28. 1:31spearo's gonna transform but man i'm
29. 1:33getting paranoid because my enemies
30. 1:35are out to get me these thinking
31. 1:36democrats i see are trying to defeat me
32. 1:39what a feeling ah man they gotta be
33. 1:41talking crap
34. 1:43i am not a bro
35. 1:48america your president is
36. 2:07yeah i'm bugging you yeah i'm bugging
37. 2:09him yeah i'm bugging george
38. 2:11yeah i'm bugging me yeah i'm bogging
39. 2:14watergate i ain't trusting no one
40. 2:16june 17 1972 yeah i'm bugging democrats
41. 2:20they trying to defeat me
42. 2:22well they sent some burglars ain't no
43. 2:23one beating me
44. 2:25turn that 25 to 86 thousands to millions
45. 2:28my re-election funds attorney general
46. 2:31mitchell now who with me quietly
47. 2:33keep it on the downlow translation on
48. 2:35the prez we can't let the press know
49. 2:37can't let the feds know get the cia on
50. 2:39our side have them tell the fbi that
51. 2:41it's just a third rate burglary
52. 2:44washington post where they getting the
53. 2:46solid evidence from
54. 2:48it's bernstein and woodward no matter
55. 2:51what they say it only means one
56. 2:53things i am not a frog crop
57. 2:57bruh america your president is not a
58. 3:01pro
59. 3:17summer 73 everybody's starting to see
60. 3:20investigations beginning to annoy me
61. 3:23archibald
62. 3:24cox and chair member irvin what they be
63. 3:27revealing yeah they getting
64. 3:28closer yeah i'm talking traitors i'm
65. 3:30talking john dean
66. 3:32i'm talking his testimony man that was
67. 3:34unforeseen
68. 3:35alexander butterfield he told them that
69. 3:38i taped my combos that were in the oval
70. 3:40office irvine and cox
71. 3:42issued subpoenas but don't forget
72. 3:45executive privilege
73. 3:46i rather fire one and get archie out of
74. 3:49here i know they gonna
75. 3:50call it saturday night massacre the
76. 3:52committee's persistent
77. 3:54i'm saying no way the house of
78. 3:56representatives considering
79. 3:57impeachment silence my critics give them
80. 4:00what they want
81. 4:01but in may they ruled in favor of
82. 4:03joworski
83. 4:04that's not fair i have to appeal i
84. 4:07really am innocent this whole thing's
85. 4:09unreal
86. 4:10tapes are out this is real real bad for
87. 4:13me
88. 4:13miracles and think i'm a big fat liar
89. 4:16smoking gun
90. 4:17june 1972 i agreed we had fbi al patrick
91. 4:21gray
92. 4:22to halt his search on the scandal of
93. 4:24watergate this tape could be the end of
94. 4:26me
95. 4:26in one day impeachment articles are now
96. 4:29observable but i just want to stay
97. 4:32present
98. 4:33avoid this this is real i'm the next
99. 4:35andrew johnson
100. 4:36better stop and kiss states goodbye like
101. 4:38wisconsin august
102. 4:408 i decided to resign from perez
103. 4:43jerry ford the vice president he's been
104. 4:47sworn in as my successor but don't
105. 4:49forget could you please pardon me
106. 4:51still not a crook
107. 4:56promise you i am not a crook
108. 5:01america your former prez is not a crook
109. 5:07but as i leave you i want you to know
110. 5:11just think how much you're going to be
111. 5:12missing you don't have nixon to kick
112. 5:15around anymore