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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 america's history. god bless america. and god bless each and every one of you. >> stwrcentral to the problems d by president nixon is the tapes and their history. >> it all began suddenly when an obscure white hous...

This is out of my league. i don't have criminal law experience, you've got to find somebody else to handle it. i should have done that. there might have been no watergate, there might have been no john dean in watergate, had i done that. (mom) that's our son! (burke) we should. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ so what's going on? i'm a talking dog. the other issue. oh... i'm scratching like crazy. you've got some allergic itch with skin inflammation. apoquel can work on that itch in as little as 4 hours, whether it's a new or chronic problem. and apoquel's treated over 11 mi...

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 don't 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 nothing. it had no lasting impact, and it is a story we should not forget. to most, watergate was a poli...

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 first. >> what america and the world saw in 1974 was the most powerful man in the world lose his job....

A final wave. >> i felt no vindication in nixon's 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 i'm the un-nixon. >> my fellow americans, our long national nightmare is over. >> i was asleep. carl called me up and said have you heard? i hadn't heard a thing. >> the son of a bitch pardoned the son ...