nixon leaves office-9 aug 1974

[niyad]

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Resignation


Richard Nixon resigns

Resignation speech of President Richard Nixon, delivered August 8, 1974.

In light of his loss of political support and the near-certainty that he would be impeached and removed, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening.[215] Nixon chose to resign after realizing public opinion was not in his favor to remain in office.[223] The resignation speech was delivered from the Oval Office and was carried live on radio and television. Nixon stated that he was resigning for the good of the country and asked the nation to support the new president, Gerald Ford. Nixon went on to review the accomplishments of his presidency, especially in foreign policy.[224] He defended his record as president, quoting from Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech Citizenship in a Republic:

Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, "whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly".[225]

Nixon's speech received generally favorable initial responses from network commentators, with only Roger Mudd of CBS stating that Nixon had not admitted wrongdoing.[226] It was termed "a masterpiece" by Conrad Black, one of his biographers. Black opined that "What was intended to be an unprecedented humiliation for any American president, Nixon converted into a virtual parliamentary acknowledgement of almost blameless insufficiency of legislative support to continue. He left while devoting half his address to a recitation of his accomplishments in office."[227]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

[DBoon]

1. I was in high scholl, working grill at a fast food chain

One guy on the crew was kind of a hippie, always pushing the hair length regulations.

On that day he got off break and announced, "hey guys that asshole Nixon just resigned"

[MineralMan]

2. Trump should celebrate the anniversary by doing the same thing.

That would get great ratings!

[niyad]

3. now THAT is a lovely thought.

[kairos12]

4. Senior in HS. It remains one of the great days of my life.

[barbtries]

5. i drove to my mother's to watch him go down;

i was going to enjoy the schadenfreude...but she ruined it for me by weeping and claiming he was the best president we'd ever had.

i used to think today's republican party would disgust her, but i don't know anymore. she may have fallen prey to the propaganda as so many formerly reasonable people have done. we'll never know as she has been dead since the year Reagan was elected.

[bdamomma]

6. I just graduated from HS

god we celebrated when he left office. Maybe we will get a repeat, but with this sick ass we have now I don't know if he realizes how stupid he is for not leaving the office.

[niyad]

8. no, the illegal squatter in the people's house is too self-absorbed to realize how incompetent he is

[MineralMan]

7. I celebrated by quitting my job and switching to freelance

work on that day. I've never looked back. I have not seen a W-2 form since then...just 1099s. So, it's a good date for me.

[niyad]

9. I am happy to acknowledge your anniversary of freedom!!! And may there be many, many more.