After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
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I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
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Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
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It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
quote by Earl Warren
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
quote by Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate
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I am a lonely visitor.
I came too late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life towards that goal.
I hardly slept the night you wept
Our secrets safe and still well kept
Where even richard nixon has got soul.
Even richard nixon has got
Soul.
Traffic cops are all color blind.
People steal from their own kind.
Evening comes to early for a stroll.
Down neon streets the streaker streaks.
The speaker speaks, but the truth still leaks,
Where even richard nixon has got soul.
Even richard nixon has got it,
Soul.
The podium rocks in the crowded waves.
The speaker talks of the beautiful saves
That went down long before he played this role
For the hotel queens and the magazines,
Test tube genes and slot machines
Where even richard nixon got soul.
Even richard nixon has got it,
Soul.
Hospitals have made him cry,
But theres always a free way in his eye,
Though his beach just got to crowded for his stroll.
Roads stretch out like healthy veins,
And wild gift horses strain the reins,
Where even richard nixon has got soul.
Even richard nixon has got
Soul.
I am a lonely visitor.
I came too late to cause a stir,
Though I campaigned all my life towards that goal.
song performed by by Neil Young
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
quote by Stephen Ambrose
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I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation. (Saluting crew of the Apollo 11)
quote by Richard Milhous Nixon
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You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
quote by Richard M. Nixon
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I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.
quote by Tony Campolo
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
quote by Samuel Dash
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An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon)
quote by Gerald R. Ford
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