
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
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- 2014
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I don't come
from a political family.
I didn't think about
the possibility
of being President
of the United States.
My mother didn't take me
into her arms and tell me
"Some day
you'll be president."
Nixon:
My mother was a Quaker
and she was a very devout
pacifist.
As... as a good Quaker
should be.
My mother was quite
well educated for those times.
My father only went through
the sixth grade.
And he worked
in every kind of a job.
As a matter of fact,
he built the house that I was born in.
Uh...
my father had
a small store
and my brothers and I
had worked in it.
We worked before
and after school
in order to help work
our way through school.
My mother was one
who had no enemies.
My father was argumentative;
he was combative;
he was competitive.
From him I got that arguing ability,
but from my mother,
more the dedication
to scholarship
at an early start.
And if it had not been for my mother,
it would have been very difficult.
My mother recalls
that I played by ear,
which I did, before I ever
took any lessons.
And I became
quite advanced.
But I think it really
came down to a choice:
would I concentrate on music
or should I move to debating
and other areas?
And I finally moved
in the other direction.
Sometimes I...
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Nixon:
I remember the headlines:"Nixon Bugged Himself."
Taping was done
for the purpose
of having it
for the historical record.
It was voice activated.
Everything was taped,
which of course
was probably stupid.
There has been a new release
and documents
just out tonight
from the Nixon Library
in California.
Say what you will about him,
Richard Nixon
is one of the most fascinating
figures in American history.
Just when we think we know everything
there is to know about him,
we find out something else.
The recordings Richard Nixon
intended for his own use
continue to tell history
his uncensored story.
The problem is
that historians
are going to grab
an hour of tape...
and if you listen to
a snippet of tape,
you're going to form an impression of
this man that's going to be wrong.
So sometime, hopefully,
there will be a historian
or a committee of historians
who will listen to all the tapes
and go into all the archives,
and then come out and say
"Richard Nixon was
the strangest collection,
the strangest paradoxical
combination
of any man I ever heard of."
And they'll be right.
John Chancellor:
Mr. Nixon has always been a solitary figure,
protected by only a few
trusted associates.
Nixon:
We were obsessed with secrecy.
with regard to secrecy.
We have to recognize
that this was wartime.
We were trying to prevent
a Communist takeover
of South Vietnam.
Nixon:
I wasn't thinking that much about
the tape system that we had.
My main concern was ending that war.
Harry Reasoner:
The Nixon Administration said today
that it has no intention
of permitting
in South Vietnam,
that the intensified American
bombing of North Vietnam
is an expression
of that determination.
Operator:
Mr. Haldeman, sir.
David Brinkley:
It is said the new bombing of North Vietnam
is only temporary,
gradually to end the war.
Nobody says when,
and nobody gives any persuasive reasons
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