Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
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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.
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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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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 was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
quote by Richard Nixon, discussing Watergate
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I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)
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There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
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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 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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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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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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I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
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Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
quote by Archibald Cox
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The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
quote by Dexter S. King
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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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I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
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Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
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