Richard Nixon actually said...

I shall continue to oppose efforts which would set a precedent that would cripple all future Presidents by inhibiting conversations between ...

This principle of confidentiality of Presidential conversations is at stake in the question of these tapes.

I stated categorically that I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate operation and that I neither knew of nor took part in any subsequent e...

Practices of that kind do not represent what I believe government should be, or what I believe politics should be.