Real Richard Nixon: 28 DAYS (1) - Resignation Speech & Watergate

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The Real Richard Nixon
Vol. 3: "28 Days"
Interview with Frank Gannon

In this interview/documentary segment, President Richard Nixon discusses his feelings upon returning from trips to the Middle East and the Soviet Union about the possibility of his impeachment over the Watergate scandal. He talks about the press, his political intuition (including his earlier intuition about the 1948 presidential election between Tom Dewey and Harry Truman), and his sense that the Democrats had a vested interest to get him (he especially mentions House Impeachment Committee Chairman Peter Rondino and House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill). Also included is a clip of the end of his resignation speech and a brief outtake from immediately after the speech (informal outtakes from before this speech can also be seen on YouTube).

The video clip comes from 38 hours of interviews that Nixon did with Frank Gannon in 1983 during eight days of interviews spread out over several months. Gannon used to work for Nixon and was well acquainted with the former president. Subsequently, Nixon is more at ease and open here than in most of his recorded interviews, including the more famous Frost/Nixon interviews, which were more confrontational.

This volume of the interview covers Richard Nixon's account of his final days in office.

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[Pikmin333]

what is the copyright date for this video???

[rmm413c]

It was filmed in 1983 but not released until 1994.

[Freecell5671]

Brilliant, Ambitous, Fascinating and Tragic. Those four words sum Nixon up.

[petezilla2k]

nixion is one misunderstood president

[MonaLisaNaked]

@Freecell5671 corrupt. corrupt. corrupt. corrupt. Those four words sum him up, much better.

[steagle9000]

@petezilla2k ("and you're mom had you because was raped"). LOL LOL LOL LOL! Is English your 2nd language? It’s understandable why you believe in the birth certificate nonsense and billion dollar vacations. If you ever decide to move out of your mom's single-wide trailer, which doubles for a meth-lab, please stop by a library and read few books. Better yet, get a vasectomy. We wouldn't want your sister to get pregnant. petezilla2k, your typical Michelle Bachmann voter...

[petezilla2k]

@steagle9000 Further proves you are an bastard retarded child that knows nothing about politics. Everything I said is facts you can look it up for yourself. Judging from you're 1st grade writing I am not surprise. I suggest you stick to you're Eden's Crush hits and Teen Summit. You are the type of person who grew up in the projects without a father and you're mom had you because was raped.

You giving personal attacks only proves I owned you're small mind and got you bend out of shape LOL

[steagle9000]

@petezilla2k Let me do my civic duty and try to educate an inbred retard like petezill2k. Hey dumbass, only an idiot would believe an internet urban legend. Then again, you are an admitted birther. LOL. If you can manage to google factcheck and search "Trip to Mumbai" (judging by your 3rd grade writing I'm not optimistic) you will find that you made a complete fool of yourself. Please don't respond. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt”

[petezilla2k]

@steagle9000 You are an idiot it is known fact that can't be argued that Obama spend billion dollars of tax payers money. To trip to India alone cost 2 billion dollars. This proves you are a brain dead idiot. And for you're information I never said Nixon is a great man I only said he is better than obama. And I get my info from many sources. I suggest you stop listen to liberal media it makes you look bad. You never rebuttal anything on the statement I gave. Owning you wasn't difficult.

[steagle9000]

@petezilla2k "Billions of tax money on personal vacations" huh? You're one of the few idiot birthers that still admit they believe in that nonsense. If you’re dumb enough to believe Obama wasn't born in Hawaii, it would be a total waste of time trying to educate you. It's no wonder you think Nixon was a great man. He's some advice, stop listening to Rush Limbaugh and reading tin foil hat websites. It’s already rotted your puny brain, but maybe it’s not too late to stop the damage.

[petezilla2k]

@steagle9000 Apparently you know nothing about politics. You sound like a hippy and that why people Nixon.

[petezilla2k]

Obama has spent billions tax money on his personal vacations putting this country into debt. Conspiracy with obama caused the damn oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so he can remove bp give it to the venezuelan who helped fund his campaign he has to pay back. Conspiracy that he killed a man killed who was in charged with birth Certificate because he wasn't born in USA. Also he took away people freedom by forcing people to take obamacare if not they are fined. Increasing gas and pocketing the money

[steagle9000]

@petezilla2k And your proof of Obama being crooked is???

[petezilla2k]

@steagle9000 Actually Obama is a crooked and Pathological in US history