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Five seconds,
Mr. President.
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And four, three, two...
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Good evening,
my fellow Americans.
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Tonight I'm
taking an action...
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...unprecedented in the history
of this office.
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I had no knowledge of the cover-up
till John Dean told me about it...
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...on March 21st, a year ago.
I think I'm going to throw up.
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...no payment to Hunt
or anyone else be made.
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He's lost touch with reality.
I've made my mistakes...
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...but in all my years of public life,
I have never profited...
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Can you imagine what
this man would have been...
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...had he ever been loved?
I've earned every penny.
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In all of my years
of public life...
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I have never obstructed justice.
Is a tragedy...
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...because he had greatness in his grasp.
I welcome this examination.
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But he had the defects
of his qualities.
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I made $250,000 from a book
They'll crucify him.
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Does anybody really care anymore?
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Which many of you were
good enough to purchase.
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...and what happens after?
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...every year.
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When I, in 1968, decided to become
a candidate for the president...
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I decided
to clean the decks...
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...and to put everything
in real estate.
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So, thas where the money came from.
Thas all I own.
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Thas what we have,
and thas what we owe.
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Because people have got to know
whether or not their...
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...president is a crook.
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Well, I am not a crook.
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I've earned everything I have...
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She does have a respectable
Republican cloth coat.
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And I always tell her, uh,
she'd look good in anything.
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There has never been
any feathering of nests.
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Not in this
administration.
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Now, let me just say this...
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And I want to say this
to the television audience.
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The Supreme Court ruled today eight to
nothing that President Nixon's claims...