Richard Nixon Funeral (7): President Bill Clinton's eulogy

-Part 7 (of 13)-

U.S. President Richard Nixon's funeral service from April 1994 (complete).

In this segment, President Bill Clinton gives a eulogy for his fellow president and sometime advisor, Richard Nixon.

Reporters Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters, and Jim Wooten periodically comment on the ceremonies and on Nixon throughout the funeral. Historian Stephen Ambrose joins them on occasion. The five then living presidents and first ladies (Gerald and Betty Ford, Jimmy and Roselynn Carter, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, George and Barbara Bush, and Bill and Hillary Clinton), as well as President Nixon's family members (his daughters Julie Nixon Eisenhower and Tricia Nixon Cox and his sons-in-law and grandchildren), can be seen frequently during the ceremonies.

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[brianclough]

Watergate aside, he was a reasonably effective President.

A moving and ringing eulogy by Pres Clinton

[vidyasundaram08]

I'm sorry. i dont' think Obama is physically good-looking at all. Bill clinton was before the presidency wore him down.

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld viewed in 20 years. sorry for long windedness. hope I made sense.

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld about WJC and it is hardly respectful. In fact, one 20 year old male (who knows of nothing about WJC life as actual memories just stories told by media etc he descibed him as a "player" (aka someone who openly lives a certain way towards women. I think about WJC and his life stuff as I watch RMN because I know that RMN is known as having "scandal attached to his name" and I think about that is what he is known for in my mind and I wonder if that is how WJC will be

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld person, but it seems like I see people seeing WJC as a "joke and a scandal." Maybe with time people will stop thinking about his scandalous life, but I just feel like his life is so out there that I can't help but think that is the biggest thing I remember about his presidency. Maybe I didn't get enough about his presidency but I just think about how I saw so much respect of majority of presidents past, but I think about how 20 something classmates at a college talk

[AnneLiesveld]

@vccstudents It is interesting you say that because I find myself thinking about the "scandalousness of Bill Clinton" as referenced earlier and I find myself thinking about former ages (aka my parents--not sure if you are there age or my--60 and 31 that is) and there is a part of my brain that wonders with respect to WJC will people ever look at him as not being a "scandal" and instead being a person. and I look at RMN funeral and I think about how I see that people see him as a

[McAttack233]

He did make massive mistakes when President but he spent his whole life after paying for it and trying to make up for it, becoming one of the finest and most respected elder statesmen America has ever had. He was highly important in foreign relations during his revival and also helped to advise Clinton numerous times. I'm not even a Republican either!

[Michael1966W]

President Clinton forever put aside the dislike people had for President Nixon when he said that "We should look at President Nixon's whole record instead of parts of it" or something like that. IT put people in thier places who were critical of Nixon and funny thing is you haven't heard anything really bad said of Nixon since.

[numerical25]

@gerjerry99 I disagree, even his cabinet members said that he buckle under the pressure. look up his biography.

[gerjerry99]

@brianclough if not for watergate he would be a top 10 president.

[ttiiyy]

@brianclough Effective? What do you mean?