Richard Nixon
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in 1971
" Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I wouldn’t want to wake up next to a lady pipefitter."
in 1973
" Government must learn to take less from people so that people can do more for themselves."
on 1/30/1974
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I would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all Americans over the past year. I refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair. As you know, I have provided to the Special Prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material.
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on 1/30/1974
" . I believe that I have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent. I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough."
on 7/23/1974
" I knew that we could not survive,However, when I got back to Washington, in my usual methodical way—people think it’s methodical and I guess it is—I decided I should put down the pros and cons of what options I had."
on 8/8/1974
" I have never been a quitter. 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. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particular"