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watergate affair. ly do everything in my power to ensure that the guilty are brought to justice and that such abuses are purged from our political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in americas history. god bless america. and god bless each and every one of you. >> stwrcentral to the problems d by ...

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To enforcing those laws and upholding the norms and traditions of our society. >> i hope the country understands where it is going. the difference between now and watergate is that by the time nixon fired the special prosecutor, the american people understood what was at stake. and they said, you know, we dont want a president who engages in that. we want to know the truth. what has happened to the american people since then? >> 50 years later, what we have learned from watergate is almost nothi...

And one of them is not mine." the next night, nixon announced on television that he was resigning. >> good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to you from this office throughout the long and difficult period of watergate, i have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me. to leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. but as president, i must put the interests of america f...

A final wave. >> i felt no vindication in nixons resignation. i thought that the wounds of watergate were going to be sore for a long time. >> mr. ford came out to perform this sad and final function as vice president. farewell wave now. the waves are over and the helicopter leaves. >> it was over. the tension in the country, it just deflated. and jerry ford came in. he was smart enough to say im the un-nixon. >> my fellow americans, our long national nightmare is over. >> i was asleep. carl cal...

Life for richard nixon. >> archibald cox, he was kind of an arrogant, stilted law professor. he wasnt a prosecutor, that was clear. he hired prosecutors who did know what they were doing. the one i happened to deal with a good bit, because he was the head of the watergate task force, was richard ben-veniste. >> the anti-corruption section of the u.s. attorneys office. i joined the watergate special prosecutors office. there were a number of young lawyers who comprised the watergate task force. >...