Not a single witness has testified that I had any knowledge of the planning for the Watergate break-in.
I stated categorically that I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation and that I neither knew of nor took part...
Let me state the common sense of the matter.
We cannot let an obsession with the past destroy our hopes for the future.
Now, Therefore, I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Tuesday, October 9, 197...
Far from trying to hide the facts, my effort throughout has been to discover the facts.
If we learn the important lessons of Watergate, if we do what is necessary to prevent such abuses in the future--on both...
I relied on the best law enforcement agencies in the country to find and report the truth.
The time has come to turn Watergate over to the courts, where the questions of guilt or innocence belong.
I accept full responsibility for them.
This principle of confidentiality of Presidential conversations is at stake in the question of these tapes.
To the extent that these things were done in the 1972 campaign, they were serious abuses, and I deplore them.
Practices of that kind do not represent what I believe government should be, or what I believe politics should be.
It is also true, as I said on May 22, that I took no part in, and was not aware of, any subsequent efforts to cover up t...
This principle of confidentiality in Presidential communications is what is at stake in the question of the tapes.
I believed that then, and certainly the experience of this last year has proved that to be true.
Rather, it lies in a commitment by all of us to show a renewed respect for the mutual restraints that are the mark of a ...
We must not stay so mired in Watergate that we fail to respond to challenges of surpassing importance to America and the...
