On August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announced he would resign the next day.
The night before, Nixon had met in the Oval Office with Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott, and Congressman John Jacob Rhodes. They told Nixon that he not only faced certain impeachment in the House of Representatives over the Watergate scandal, but that there were enough votes in the Senate to convict him and remove him from office.
It was the first time a U.S. President resigned.
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I thought it was a helluva thriller. JFK`s murder marked the end of a
dream, the end of a concept of idealism that I associate with my youth.
Race war, Vietnam, Watergate. If JFK had lived, the combat situation in
Vietnam would never have occurred.
-Oliver Stone
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
-Billy Graham
I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were
described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep
of Watergate.
-Bob Woodward
I used to think that the Civil War was our country`s greatest tragedy,
but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil
War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on
both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
-Andrea Cohen
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our
Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again
so as to reaffirm that no one- absolutely no one- is above the law.
-Leon
Jaworski
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The
whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment
on Richard Nixon.
-Archibald Cox
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the
public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are
absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy
and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
-John le
Carre
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America
allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to bypass the
regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
-Gerald
R. Ford
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of
innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a
presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will
misbehave.
-Dee Dee Myers
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed
everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and
both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing
the truth.
-Daniel Keys Moran
Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its
democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency.
-Samuel
Dash
Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob
Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and
we know how that turned out.
-Edward Klein
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers,
tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
-Dexter
S. King
I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but
rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than
walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
-Chuck
Colson
When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when
he is the President.
-Dick Houser
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and
President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of
doing.
-Golda Meir
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man
without punishing the office.
-Arthur M. Schlesinger
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the
president. I`m innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you
don't, take my job.
-Richard M. Nixon
There's a cancer on the presidency.
-John Dean
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
-Richard
M. Nixon
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with
relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the
same thing.
-Richard M. Nixon
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
-Richard
M. Nixon
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
-Richard
M. Nixon
Watergate does not bother me,
Does your conscience bother you?
-Lynyrd
Skynyrd
The slow-rising central horror of Watergate is not that it might grind
down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president
whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of
cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might
somehow fail to learn something from it.
-Hunter S. Thompson
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
-Yogi Berra
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