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00:30Get out of the middle of the street.
00:38I'm aware of the intense interest concerning developments over the last few days.
00:46This has, of course, has been a difficult time.
00:53Tonight at 9 o'clock, Eastern Daylight Time,
00:56the President of the United States will address the nation on radio and television from his Oval Office.
01:14People have begun to just sort of gather outside the White House.
01:17They stand near the gate there on Pennsylvania Avenue and across the street.
01:20This applause you hear, what has happened is that a moving van has just pulled up over at the White House.
01:31But the hard fact is that no one really knows what's going on in the President's mind.
01:36One thing is certain, it's difficult for everyone to live with this tension much longer.
01:41Is that reading light hitting anywhere that you can see?
01:45I don't think it is. I got a barn door off, but it might.
01:48Okay.
01:51Hey, you're a better looking than I am. Why don't you stay here?
01:59Let me see that you get these lights properly.
02:03My eyes always help.
02:05You'll find that if I get past the door, I can see.
02:08My eyes always help.
02:09You'll find that if I get past 60, that's enough.
02:16My friend Ollie, oh, he's about to take a lot of pictures.
02:20I'm afraid he'll catch me picking my nose.
02:24Oh, you're on a level, don't you? Yes, yes.
02:27Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office.
02:33Need any more?
02:34Each time, I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest.
02:45Okay.
02:53We are standing by now for President Richard Milhouse, Nixon, 37th President of the United States.
03:00The explanation of this man and what has happened to him, I think maybe we won't all fully understand.
03:09He never knew really who he was.
03:12Good evening. This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office.
03:19It's as though he has needed enemies from the beginning, not only for political reasons, but to give him his own identity.
03:26But to give him his own identity.
03:56My mother was a Quaker, and my father was a Methodist.
04:02But when they married, they compromised. They both became Quakers, of course.
04:10We were poor. We had very little. We all used hand-me-down clothes.
04:14I wore my brother's shoes, and my brother below me wore his shoes.
04:18We were poor. We had very little. We all used hand-me-down clothes.
04:21We were poor. We had very little. We all used hand-me-down clothes.
04:24I wore my brother's shoes, and my brother below me wore mine.
04:30When I was ten years of age, we had a store and service station.
04:36It was mostly study and work, not much play.
04:44They knew that when their father told them to do something, there wasn't any question about it.
04:51And when he spoke, he meant exactly what he said.
04:55I would put it this way, he didn't believe in any of the modern methods of raising children.
05:00He said, you spare the rod, you spoil the child.
05:09It was a happy home. A happy home, let me describe it another way.
05:13Sometimes I think we judge happiness in these days as being a life in which there are no problems.
05:20That isn't my estimate of happiness.
05:23In our family, we had many great problems. We had many great crises.
05:34When I was in high school, my youngest brother, Arthur, died of tubercular meningitis.
05:40Very suddenly, within a week, he was dead.
05:46And then my oldest brother, Harold, had tuberculosis.
05:52And my mother, for three years, stayed with him in Arizona.
05:57It was a rather difficult time, actually, from the standpoint of the family being pulled apart.
06:03He and Dick were real buddies.
06:07But the tuberculosis got him.
06:10Harold died.
06:13I think when you lose an older brother, you suddenly have to take on the role of elder son.
06:32I always had the drive of my father behind me, saying, now look, I had to quit when I was in the sixth grade, and so you're going to do better.
06:42When we came in as freshmen, Dick Nixon was something of an opportunist.
06:50He was a very good man.
06:53He was a very good man.
06:55When we came in as freshmen, Dick Nixon was something of an opportunist.
07:02He wasn't athletic, but he went out for the football team.
07:08This, I feel, was deliberate, because the image served him well.
07:14Since this would contribute toward his election as student body president, as a leader on campus.
07:26I worked my way through college and through law school.
07:33In 1940, probably the best thing that ever happened to me happened. I married Pat.
07:39She was a beautiful girl, and she was a very remarkable person, too.
07:44Her mother died when she was about nine years of age.
07:47Her father died when she was 16, and still graduated from USC with honors.
07:53In 1942, I went into the service.
07:57I enlisted in the Navy.
07:59I was convinced that with this aggression that was sweeping across the globe, that no one could stand aside.
08:09How jubilant was the taste of victory!
08:12How sweet the rewards of peace!
08:14How jubilant was the taste of victory!
08:17How sweet the rewards of peace!
08:27I received a wire from an old friend,
08:32the banker in our hometown of Whittier, California,
08:35saying we're looking for candidates to run for Congress.
08:40I was off.
08:42Richard Nixon from the very beginning
08:45had such a will to win
08:48that anything he could use in the campaign, apparently, was all right.
09:04In the year 1946, young, bright, but unknown Dick Nixon
09:07was given a chance to run for Congress from his home district in California.
09:15Gary Voorhees had been the incumbent for ten years in a relatively conservative district.
09:23The philosophy which guided Mr. Nixon's politics
09:27was that the way to win is to tear down one's opponent in every way one can.
09:32By a whirlwind of charges and innuendos,
09:35the anti-communist, democratic incumbent Gary Voorhees
09:38was made to seem a pro-communist.
09:45Of course, that first campaign was the most exciting of all.
09:48There's nothing like winning the first one.
10:02As far as Mrs. Nixon was concerned, she liked adventure.
10:06She thought that it was very important to live an exciting life.
10:10And frankly, going to Congress would be exciting, she thought.
10:32Representative Nixon, what do you think Congress can and Congress must do
10:37to deal with this problem of foreign espionage within our own government?
10:43I think the first thing that Congress must do
10:46is to continue to expose these activities
10:49through the Committee on Un-American Activities.
11:02The facts regarding this sinister communist conspiracy
11:06and other subversive activities should be brought to the American public.
11:12I am not, and never have been, a member of the Communist Party.
11:16I am not, and never have been, a member of the Communist Party.
11:38Mr. Nixon, I urge that your committee members
11:41abandon such verdict-first and testimony-later tactics.
11:46Hiss was good-looking, suave, sophisticated, Ivy League manner.
11:52He was a very effective witness.
11:56At the time, everybody was backing Hiss.
11:59The committee wanted to drop it completely.
12:02Everybody was advising Nixon to drop it, that it would kill his career.
12:12But somehow, I had a feeling.
12:15I said, there's something about that fellow that doesn't ring true.
12:23It is the intention of the Committee on Un-American Activities
12:26to pursue this investigation until we put the spotlight
12:30on those high officials in the State Department
12:33who are responsible for selling this country down the river.
12:45I am holding in my hand a microfilm
12:48of the most confidential, highly-secret State Department documents.
12:52This microfilm was made for the purpose of transmitting
12:55these documents in reduced form to the Soviet Union.
12:59We knew that we had there the hard evidence that we had lacked before.
13:04And this involved espionage.
13:07That was what eventually brought Hiss's indictment
13:10and his conviction of perjury.
13:13Alger Hiss, one-time high government official,
13:16will lose all civil rights after a year in prison.
13:37Mr. Nixon got a great deal of political mileage
13:40out of the conviction of Alger Hiss.
13:52It had a great deal to do with his future career.
13:57I'm Dick Nixon,
13:59one of your United States Congressmen from California.
14:01I'm now applying for a new job,
14:04that of United States Senator.
14:12In 1950, Nixon ran against
14:15Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas.
14:21It was a very rough campaign,
14:24filled with a certain amount of innuendo.
14:26He called Helen Douglas a pink lady.
14:31Saying, if I was against the Committee on American Activities,
14:34I was for communism.
14:39Dirty tricks designed to avoid a discussion of issues.
14:45And anything that was acceptable,
14:48if it guaranteed success.
14:51In California,
14:53Congressman Richard Nixon wins easily.
15:09I know of no person
15:12who could have been more disappointed
15:15than Hillary Clinton.
15:17And I know of no person
15:20who could have been selected
15:22for this high position and high honor
15:25by the Republican Party of the nation.
15:32Is there any objection?
15:34Chair declares
15:36Richard M. Nixon
15:38Republican nominee for Vice President
15:40by acclamation.
15:48It's a big day for the little town of Whittier, California.
15:54There she is.
15:57That's Mrs. Nixon.
16:06He is a very personable young man.
16:11And will undoubtedly be a great man.
16:14And will undoubtedly be a great asset
16:16to the Republican ticket.
16:28The whole Nixon family considers it a great privilege
16:31to work for the election to the presidency
16:33of General Eisenhower.
16:35And although Tricia and Julie are a little too young
16:37for active campaigning,
16:39Mrs. Nixon will travel with me
16:41throughout the country
16:43and I think you'll find
16:45that she's one of the best campaigners on record.
16:47Well, I certainly will do all I can.
16:53After all, I was only 39 years old.
16:57And to even be considered for Vice President,
17:00particularly running with General Eisenhower,
17:03for whom I had enormous respect,
17:05was to me something that you only dreamed about.
17:14New York Post
17:26A headline in the New York Post newspaper
17:28said,
17:29Secret Rich Men's Trust Fund
17:31Keeps Nixon in Style Far Beyond His Salary.
17:37The revelation that Senator Nixon,
17:39the Republican Vice Presidential candidate,
17:41was receiving what amounted to
17:43a private salary, an extra salary,
17:45from private persons in California
17:47is becoming a major political story.
17:49Some Republicans are embarrassed.
17:51And of course the Democrats are demanding
17:53that Nixon withdraw from the race.
17:57In my judgment,
17:59men in government that are dishonest
18:01should be punished and put out.
18:03General Eisenhower to demand his resignation
18:05as Vice Presidential candidate.
18:07Everybody thought that I could not survive
18:09on the ticket.
18:13But you know something about miracles in politics?
18:17Miracles don't happen.
18:22They don't happen unless you make them happen.
18:32Senator Richard Nixon has interrupted
18:34his nationwide campaign tour
18:36to be with you tonight for this important message.
18:40My fellow Americans,
18:41I come before you tonight
18:43as a man whose honesty
18:45and integrity has been questioned.
18:58I want to tell you my side of the case.
19:02Not one cent
19:04of the $18,000
19:06or any other money of that type
19:08ever went to me
19:09for my personal use.
19:12I am going at this time
19:14to give a complete financial history.
19:18First of all, I've had my salary
19:20as a congressman and as a senator.
19:23I have received a total of $1,600
19:26from estates $1,500 a year
19:29from a non-political speaking business.
19:32We've got a house in Washington.
19:34We have a house in Woody, California
19:36which costs $13,000.
19:37I own a 1950 Oldsmobile car.
19:39We have no stocks and bonds
19:41of any type.
19:43My wife's sitting over here.
19:45Pat doesn't have a mink coat.
19:48But she does have
19:50a respectable Republican cloth coat.
19:53And I always tell her
19:55that she'd look good in anything.
19:57One other thing I probably should tell you,
20:00because if I don't,
20:02they'll probably be saying this about me too.
20:04We did get something
20:05a gift after the election.
20:09You know what it was?
20:11It was a little Cocker Spaniel dog,
20:14black and white, spotted.
20:16And our little girl, Tricia,
20:18the six-year-old, named it Checkers.
20:21And you know,
20:23the kids, like all kids, love the dog.
20:25And I just want to say this right now,
20:27that regardless of what they say about it,
20:29we're going to keep it.
20:30And now finally,
20:32I know that you wonder
20:34whether or not
20:36I am going to stay on the Republican ticket
20:38or resign.
20:40Let me say this.
20:42I don't believe that I ought to quit,
20:44because I'm not a quitter.
20:46And incidentally, Pat's not a quitter.
20:49But the decision, my friends, is not mine.
20:52And I'm going to ask you to help
20:54wire and write
20:56the Republican National Committee
20:57whether you think I should stay on
20:59or whether I should get off.
21:01And whatever their decision is,
21:03I will abide by it.
21:18All those in favor of Nixon continue
21:20as a candidate will say aye.
21:22Aye.
21:24Aye.
21:25Aye.
21:34He is not only completely vindicated,
21:37I feel that he acted as a man of courage and of honor
21:40and so far as I am concerned,
21:42stands higher than ever before.
21:46Once you have fought the battle,
21:48and once you have won,
21:50last night at Wheeling, West Virginia,
21:52then you have a letdown.
21:53Eisenhower and Nixon and the high peak of emotion
21:55that brought Nixon to tears.
21:59That was that,
22:01and a short time later,
22:03Nixon was back on his chartered airplane
22:05with his wife going back to the speaking tour
22:07in the West he had interrupted.
22:17It was a landslide
22:19for the Eisenhower and Nixon ticketing.
22:24The guy that said
22:26getting stuck would buy.
22:28Hang out the banner,
22:30beat the drum,
22:32we'll take back to Washington.
22:34We'll take back to Washington.
22:43We leave Washington
22:45on the midnight, October the 5th.
22:47From there we go down through the Pacific
22:49to New Zealand,
22:51then over to Australia,
22:54to Saigon and Indochina,
22:56to Hong Kong, Formosa,
22:58Korea, to Japan,
23:00and down to Manila.
23:04For the sake of millions in the world
23:06who depend upon our leadership,
23:08we must never falter.
23:10Washington, D.C.
23:12on a four-week goodwill tour
23:14of the Kerosene plant.
23:16Nixon's 22-day goodwill mission
23:18to eight South American nations.
23:20Communists are making an all-out effort
23:21to win.
23:23If they do,
23:25the free world eventually
23:27will be forced to its knees.
23:39For four days now,
23:41some of the 20th century's
23:43most extraordinary diplomatic maneuvers
23:45have been taking place in Moscow.
23:51Khrushchev is a very,
23:53very capable,
23:55tough,
23:57unpredictable leader
23:59who would test my mettle.
24:02This, Mr. Khrushchev,
24:04is one of the most advanced
24:06developments in communication
24:08that we have in our country.
24:12It is color television,
24:14of course,
24:16and it's a very,
24:18very important tool
24:19and it is color television,
24:21of course.
24:23We wish you success.
24:25You can show us
24:27American possibilities
24:29and then we can say...
24:31He says,
24:33Mr. Key,
24:35the Soviets will overtake America
24:37and then we...
24:39Bye-bye.
24:41This indicates the possibilities
24:43of increasing communication
24:45and this increase in communication
24:47will teach us some things
24:49because, after all,
24:51you don't know everything.
24:56If I don't know everything,
24:58then I would say
25:00that you know absolutely nothing
25:02about communism.
25:04All that I can say
25:06from the way you talk
25:08and the way you dominate
25:10the conversation,
25:12you would have made
25:14a good lawyer yourself.
25:16I've seen Khrushchev in action
25:17and he felt that here at last
25:19he met a man
25:21of his own mettle
25:23and worth arguing with.
25:25It was common for reporters
25:27who followed him to say,
25:29I hate the guy, but...
25:31And then would come
25:33a reluctant statement
25:35that Nixon was representing
25:37his nation well.
25:40Emerging from the long shadow
25:42of Eisenhower,
25:44he became leader
25:46and after eight long years,
25:48Nixon's supreme chance
25:50came in 1960.
26:16Gentlemen, could we bill this
26:18as your first joint appearance,
26:20the two leading candidates
26:22for 1960?
26:24I will say this,
26:26that at the present time
26:28Senator Kennedy
26:30is campaigning very effectively.
26:32Things are starting to pop
26:34at this vital campaign
26:36of 1960.
26:46The chair declares
26:48that Vice President
26:50Richard M. Nixon
26:52has been unanimously nominated
26:54to be the candidate
26:56of the Republican Party
26:58for the office of President
27:00of the United States.
27:02He's been downtown
27:04in his suite
27:06at the Sheraton Blackstone
27:08watching on television
27:10looking at us,
27:12looking at him,
27:13looking at us.
27:15Could we have a word
27:17from Mrs. Nixon, please?
27:19I still feel
27:21it's all a dream.
27:23When I was teaching school
27:2520 years ago,
27:27I never knew
27:29that this event
27:31would happen tonight.
27:33Mr. Vice President,
27:35why do you want
27:37to be President
27:39of the United States?
27:41These lights are
27:43for President Nixon.
27:45And I am convinced
27:47that if America
27:49does not give the world
27:51a free world,
27:53the leadership that it needs
27:55in these times,
27:57the cause of freedom
27:59will die forever.
28:01Just be quiet,
28:03we're going to have
28:05Vic Nixon.
28:08With faith in America
28:10and in her people,
28:11I accept your nomination
28:13for President
28:15of the United States.
28:21It's the Centennial Convention
28:23of the Republican Party,
28:25a hundred years
28:27since the nomination of Lincoln.
28:29It has come now
28:31from Abraham Lincoln
28:33to Richard Nixon.
28:42Everyone is voting
28:44for Jack
28:46because he's got
28:48what all the rest lack.
28:50Everyone wants to back
28:52Jack.
28:54Jack is on the right track
28:56because he's got
28:58my hopes.
29:00He's got my hopes.
29:03When I first met Kennedy
29:05as a congressman,
29:08he was very intelligent.
29:09He was very personable.
29:11However,
29:13I sensed that he was very shy,
29:15frankly, as I was.
29:17I rather thought that we were
29:19alike in that respect.
29:21But we were very different
29:23in many ways.
29:30He, of course,
29:32had all the money he needed
29:34for personal purposes.
29:36He never had to fight his way up.
29:37He never had to worry
29:39about losing in a campaign
29:41or fear that he wouldn't have a job.
29:44It is time, in short,
29:46for a new generation
29:48of leadership.
29:51He was one that attracted
29:53the people who wanted
29:55a young, courageous man
29:57in the presidency
29:59and yet one who was suave,
30:01smooth,
30:03debonair, and graceful.
30:05Basically, that's
30:07the mark of royalty.
30:15The next president
30:17of the United States,
30:19Richard M. Nixon.
30:21Thank you very much.
30:29The reason advanced
30:31by people who intend to vote
30:33for Nixon was that he has had
30:35more experience than Kennedy,
30:38Morse.
30:43Based on the record crowds,
30:45and they have been record crowds,
30:47press please note,
30:49bigger than anybody's ever had!
30:58Oh.
31:00Now this isn't just a test of looks.
31:02It's a test of what you got up stairs.
31:04Thanks.
31:07Mr. Nixon arrived at the studios first, but they're not going to show the fact that I'm
31:34on this side. If he's agreeable, I think we just both should stand here. In other words,
31:40you say that we'll now have questions, gentlemen, then we move over here, right?
31:43Right. Good. But the master tactician made one major tactical mistake.
31:51David, will you hit the one minute button, please? And the cut, please.
31:56Do you want to quit quickly or how? Well, we figure when you see 30 seconds,
32:05sure. Well, I don't know what happened.
32:11Looking right at the camera here. Do that again.
32:15Nixon was famous. He was the world famous vice president. Kennedy was a rather unknown senator.
32:22He was thought to be untested politically, a bit of a political lightweight.
32:30And Richard Nixon was the great debater.
32:32Can you hear me now speaking? Is that about the right tone of voice?
32:39It's like a brick wall.
32:44Good evening. And now for the first opening statement by Senator John F. Kennedy.
32:54We discussed tonight domestic issues, but I would not want that to be any implication to be given
33:01that this does not involve directly our struggle with Mr. Khrushchev for survival.
33:06Therefore, I think the question before the American people is,
33:09are we doing as much as we can do? I should make it very clear that I do not think we're doing
33:15enough, that I am not satisfied as an American with the progress that we are making. This is
33:20a great country. Kennedy was standing up there very comfortably. If the United States fails.
33:26And I expected the tiger to come out of his corner and rip apart this young challenger.
33:31I think it's time America started moving again.
33:36The things that Senator Kennedy has said, many of us can agree with. There is no question but that
33:43this nation cannot stand still. And I subscribe completely to the spirit that Senator Kennedy
33:50has expressed tonight. Our disagreement is not about the goals for America, but only about the
33:58means to reach those goals. Within the first two minutes, I was convinced that Nixon simply was not
34:03going to fight back. He went in with the idea he had to come through as the nice guy, not the tough
34:11guy. He was trying to be too polite. He was afraid of the tricky dick thing. Senator, the vice
34:18president in his campaign has said that you are naive and at times immature. He has raised the
34:23question of leadership. On this issue, why do you think people should vote for you rather than the
34:27vice president? The vice president and I came to the Congress together. I've been there now for 14
34:32years, the same period of time that he has. So that our experience in government is comparable.
34:40I can only say that my experience is there for the people to consider.
34:44Senator Kennedy is there for the people to consider.
34:48Nixon was not up for the game. I think one party is ready to move in these programs,
34:53the other party gives them lip service. While Senator Kennedy says we are for the status quo,
34:58I do believe that he would agree that my proposals are just as sincerely held as his.
35:07He was soft. He was surveying punches. He had a gray suit on against a gray background
35:13and he looked sallow. A two-term vice president thoroughly wilted. I don't want historians 10
35:20years from now to say these were the years when the tide ran out for the United States.
35:24I want them to say these were the years when the tide came in. In one hour, Nixon elevated
35:29his opponent to his own level of fame that he had worked eight years to attain himself.
35:37Silly damn thing anyway. It is interesting though. I mean, it's as vivid as that,
35:41the light suit and how much he stands out. You see, the other point is that it was,
35:46if it had been in color, it would have been different. The light suit in color is fine.
35:52It's not black and white. It just fades into the... And black and white,
35:54always wear a dark suit. That's something we should... Oh, well, hell.
35:59What's Jack got that the rest haven't got? The matinee face, the bright white teeth.
36:04It was rough. Because, of course, many in the media are more, frankly, suckers for style
36:11than average people. And his lovely wife, Jacqueline.
36:18But the media, the media, the media, the media, the media, the media, the media,
36:24and his lovely wife, Jacqueline. But the media being, shall we say,
36:30not particularly in my corner, generally speaking, they're just against me.
36:35Mr. Vice President, there are some who say, I don't know what it is,
36:41but I just don't like the man. Mr. Nixon, in that first debate,
36:47a great deal was made of your appearance on television. Well, I've often said that there
36:52wasn't much that could be done with my face. Sometimes it's very important for
37:00a potential leader to go through the fire. That's how you learn how to win.
37:06Whatever has happened up to this point, you haven't seen anything yet.
37:13This election is still wide open and could be close or it could be a landslide either way.
37:18I do not believe that we can afford to use the White House as a training school to give
37:24a man experience at the expense of the American people.
37:2965 million Americans or more will step into booths and secretly vote their choice.
37:36I run against a candidate who reminds me of the symbol of his party, the circus elephant.
37:44It's a tremendous decision. It might well be the most crucial one they'll ever make.
37:53The people of the United States realize that it's a pied piper from Boston and they're not
37:58going to go down that road. Tuesday, November 8th,
38:13is election day all over the country. Everyone has said this would be a close election.
38:23Across the United States, it's been a very calm day.
38:26Well, despite this record turnout across the entire nation.
38:34It's been one of the most arduous campaigns we've ever had and Vice President Nixon,
38:38when he ended it, was gray with fatigue. He said he hoped sometime he would write a book
38:44about running for president and he said the title of it should be The Exquisite Agony.
38:52Now begins the exquisite agony of waiting to see how it all turned out.
39:02The very first returns are now beginning to pour in substantially.
39:07And it is a very close race indeed, as you see on the board. 415,000 votes for Nixon,
39:13with 2% of the nation's precincts counted. And for Nixon, he's leading in states that
39:17would give him 173 electoral votes. It is just neck and neck. Let's see how the IBM 7090 is
39:25looking at these returns this early in the evening, going over to the IBM data center
39:29and Howard K. Smith. The first forecast that we can make is with 1% of the nation's precincts
39:34reporting, the trend indicates that Richard M. Nixon will be elected tonight. Suppose we direct
39:41your attention now to the national recap board. First to the popular vote as it now stands.
39:46Kennedy has moved ahead in the popular vote. On the electoral board,
39:49Nixon is still holding on to the lead, but it is so narrow at this point.
39:54In Maryland, Nixon has jumped into the lead. New Hampshire has surprised Kennedy ahead with
39:5810% of the votes in. Missouri has flopped over into the Nixon column and that state was expected
40:03to be for Kennedy. Kennedy has a slight lead in Texas. This will be important.
40:07This turns into a seesaw battle in quite a few of the states, all night long.
40:13The vote has now reached roughly 14 million. Kennedy in the lead by about a million.
40:18We have now about 60% shows Kennedy ahead. Very close still.
40:27Charles, we just heard from Los Angeles, from Vice President Nixon's election night headquarters,
40:31that his aides say he remains confident of victory.
40:39I have a philosophy that this country is a country of destiny.
40:45I happen to believe that through the years, our people some way
40:49know how to select the man for president that the times need and that the country needs.
40:54We want Nixon! We want Nixon! We want Nixon!
41:01A hundred hands go up at the peace sign which Nixon himself has been using.
41:10Our great presidents have really articulated what people felt at the time.
41:17And it was because they were representative of the tide of the times that they were president.
41:27Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, you almost convinced me there for a moment.
41:36John F. Kennedy becomes president-elect of the United States.
41:41Just think how much you're going to be missing. You don't have Nixon to kick around anymore.
41:47We see cities enveloped in smoke and flame.
41:51We see Americans hating each other, fighting each other, killing each other at home.
41:59A long, dark night for America is about to end.