Richard Nixon delivers his farewell address to Administration staffers, August 9, 1974
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2014
- Farewell Speech from the holdings of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum (The National Archives and Records Administration)
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Naval Photographic Center Film Collection
File ID: NPC 1211-106-75
President Nixon's Farewell Speech to the White House Staff
Producer: Naval Photographic Center
TRT: 00:27:31
Date: 8/9/1974
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Louis CK, Matt, Shane✊
What a Great speech.
Same ☺
Dude what happened to our presidents as orators? The fact he did this spontaneously is amazing. He talks like a leader.
@@darklord220 obama was an incredible orator, so was trump in a lot of ways
@@IjzerKeizer Trump? He pushed America's buttons by telling his base what they wanted to hear. That's the best I can say about that petty, miserable a****le.
@@darklord220 he was also a dirty lying crook racist.
”Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain”
One of my most favourite quotes and it deserves more attention.
My favorite part was “always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win, unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
Incredible ... and Watergate was a parking violation compared to what's going on now.
You are 100%, absolutely right.
@@davidzhang3009 only more right now with time...
Bill Clinton ~ No consequences
Obama ~ No consequences
Pelosi ~ No consequences
Hillary Clinton ~ No consequences
Joe Biden ~ No consequences
Hunter Biden ~ No consequences
FBI, DOJ, HSA, etc ~ ditto
TRUMP ~ Ongoing TARGET of a VISCOUS Smear Campaign.
Watergate was nothing at the time. Nixon was petrified the Democrats would pull a ‘60 on him: again.
Watergate didn’t make, nor any or all of the plumbers could, not on its best day, have made the slightest difference to the outcome of the election.
Nixon resignation, is akin to Boris Johnson being kicked out of being PM for knowing somebody who pinched somebody else’s bottom.
More like j-walking! Dumald Tramp is pretty close to receiving his diploma for being the greatest! The greatest at talking himself closer to penitentiary prez
I was choking up when he spoke of his father and mother .
Ironically...this was one of the most memorable speeches of all time
“Only when you’ve walked the lowest valley can you truly appreciate what its like to be on the tallest mountain.”
it's such a powerful statement considering what his life was like.
I believe this was his most thoughtful and inspiring speech. He was at his best during the lowest point of his public life.
Because it isn’t a Political Speech - nor is he addressing The Nation. He’s Speaking to People, People That He KNOWS, People That He Has Worked WITH.
He’s Speaking from The Heart.
He was the last Political Giant from an era of Politics where the prevailing wisdom still held that The Way to Win included *trying* to get The People Who Hate You to *LIKE* You, and The Theory of Good Governance relied upon projecting Power and Authority - that’s why whenever he addressed The Nation, he made every effort to recapitulate the fact that he was reading from something that was *WRITTEN DOWN.*
Is the opening to China, peace with the Soviet Union, nuclear deterrence, ending the Vietnam War, the Cancer Initiative, Moon Landing, etc. anywhere in your analysis as well?
@@keylime9254 the Viet Nam war ended in 1975 when South Viet Nam fell, I was off the coast of South Viet Nam at Phan Rang, Da Nang when I was in the Navy on board the USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 when I was on my very first Westpac Cruise. The Navy had to evacuate Saigon in late April,1975.
Why are we still so fascinated about President Richard Milhous Nixon??? For he was a fascinating individual!!!
What a great speech He spoke from his heart, not as a politician but as a man from His TRUE Heart!
+Anthony M We think that when someone dear to us dies, that all is ended. Not true. It is always a beginning, always. God's word and this speech have been encouraging in a time of personal difficulty. Only when you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
The most honest and personal speech I have ever seen a president give. This country has fallen quite a ways.
It sure has... feels like the core of this speech was that government officials don't receive any personal gain during their service. That's simply not true anymore... congressmen rake in millions from corporate lobbying these days
I’ve listened to this speech more than once over the recent years. It’s always touching and inspirational. Politicians don’t have this gift anymore. They read from teleprompters like thoughtless robots. This speech was completely from the heart, and you could feel it.
Agreed. I come back to this speech quite a bit too.
Nixon to prison ? And those who helped him ?
What about Joe BIDEN now ❓
And all presidents between
Nixon and Biden ?
Simply one of the greatest political speeches in history.
Agree completely. I have not watched this in many years. Compare this uplifting speech to the poison and drivel we have to suffer though every day today.
It was not a political speech it's a fear well speech.
I admit that after listening to this speech. I felt sad for him.
I find Richard Nixon fascinating. Elected by the then-biggest electoral margin in history and yet so awkward with people he was unable to make small talk. He wore a suit and tie when home alone. Raised a Quaker with people who considered "gosh" to be profanity and yet as a grown man he was profane, paranoid and thirsting for revenge for perceived wrongs. A great little man. Only in this speech did he ever let anyone glimpse inside at any humanity.
Bill Prash Beautifully crafted about the 37th Commander-in-chief. Gotta have guts to do what he did on Aug 8, 1974. I admire him yet he gives me an eerie feeling or chills too. I don't think he would have achieved those things as President especially China and USSR had he not been this Nixon. After many years I am still startled and choke up in a pause when somebody asks what is my thoughts on Nixon. A true America patriot. Yes he earned every dime and everything else during his years in politics He still fascinates me every in death and years after Watergate.
Both of you are spot on!
He was mostly acting when he delivered public speeches. There's a great phone recording where he jokes about this.
That is true. He is one of the greatest statesmen and leaders of the 20th century. There are doubts that Watergate was actually a conspiracy of the establishment against him, because he was too powerful and could change the course of the country radically like could John Kennedy. In the case of Kennedy the bullets were applied, in case of Nixon - the intrigues and procedures. America became more civilized)
Civilized?
more Confused? Yes
more Corrupt? YES!
This was a MAN. And He left there a MAN. No President since came close to exhibiting the truest form of raw emotion, integrity and remorse for his wrong doings. His predecessors would shame all the Devils in Hell for what they have done, except maybe Carter. RIP Tricky Dick. You did nothing wrong its who you did it to. I forgive you.
Carter wasn't his predecessor.
He did nothing wrong? Oh really?
Then he didn’t need to be pardoned…
But he was pardoned.
Start reading the history books because you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
God Bless President Nixon. God is the final Judge. He reads our hearts.
A nice man, a great leader of mankind, a fabulous president and an eternal friend. Salute from China.
The part about his Parents, specially his Mother could melt the coldest heart, no one in DC or any level of Government has this ability to convey his or her own feelings so eloquently as did Richard M. Nixon. Despite his shortcomings, Ill take him now over Biden, and , especially, Trump!
Or, anyone else
Nixon 2024🎉
We need him now
What a great President and an even greater Man!
+googz21 He wasn't a great president at all, he was just a criminal, who wasn't convicted, thanks to Gerald Ford presidential pardon. He never showed remorse, 'cause he never admitted his fault, as a great man would do, and most importanly he never asked for the american people forgiveness. Nixon is a shame for this country.
+Egroj Siul Well I appreciate your discourse against the Nixon Presidency. You are correct, he did cover up Watergate for political purposes, but his achievements outweigh his faults I feel. Nevertheless, I respect your opinion.
Egroj Siul ...like Clinton.
He was able to make remarkable breakthroughs with communist states, but then again, Watergate looks like an ominous black cloud over his legacy
@@egrojsiul1878 if nixon is a criminal then a lot of presidents are criminal. Remember what Kennedys dad had to do to win the election in the sixties.
"Others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them" Couldn't be more true. Especially in these divided times we live in.
louis ck brought me here.
President Richard Nixon RIP
"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
That's what he said in 1962 in what he said would be his last press conference.
Nixon best Speech “ if only he listen to his heart ♥️ instead of his insecurity
He was a great man in and off-office
Great video thanks for posting
His most heartfelt and humble speech he ever made. Too bad he had to be brought to his knees to be genuine. Not any different than most presidents democrats or republicans in my opinion, JFK was the only genuine president during my lifetime
JFK ~ a Truth Teller that got dead
Nixon is really a good President in USA history compare with other
Especially Clinton & Biden
Until the very end he was trying to inspire and uplift his fellow countrymen. Incredibly magnanimous and brave
Pres. #RichardMNixon farewell Speech Aug 9th 1974 He was a person with great #humility & #Wisdon #InTheArena #NixonLibrary #Godbless
Sincerely, Dave Minnesota
Anthony Hopkins played Nixon to a tee ,he should have won the Oscar for that film
That performance and movie sucked.
The videos provided in this channel have been so fascinating! It has caused me to research more about our 37th President! After watching several of the videos, President Nixon strikes me as an incredibly intelligent and articulate person.
In the process of my research, I came upon some troubling information. I read that President Nixon, in more than one occasion, beat his wife, Pat! I found this very disturbing! Too disturbing to continue my research or to continue subscribing to the channel! ☮️🖖🏽
Speech starts at 5:20.
To be brought down by a third-rate burglary.
Wish we had Nixon now......
Kissinger was a Babe 🧲 Magnet.
21:28 best advice ever
18:25 on is a genuinely powerful message about living a powerful life
Great man! We need him now.
Absolutely love it. From the heart.
Magnificent.
Imagine what this man would be able to fulfill without this deep bad hate.
Richard Milhous Nixon (Yorba Linda, 9 de enero de 1913-Nueva York, 22 de abril de 1994) fue el trigésimo séptimo presidente de los Estados Unidos entre 1969 y 1974, año en que se convirtió en el único presidente en dimitir del cargo. Anteriormente, Nixon había sido vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos durante la presidencia de Dwight D. Eisenhower de 1953 a 1961 y antes de ello miembro en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos (por el 12.º distrito de California) y del Senado de Estados Unidos (por California).
I know a theme from Oklahoma was played during Nixon's farewell...does anybody know the name of that theme? Thank you
Historic
There is no need for spying if you are confident in your success and abilities
Richard Nixon did the right thing resigning.
I'm from The Netherlands. Like all men Mr Nixon made mistakes. But as far I can see from Europe I think Mr Nixon was a good president. And by the way two of my favourite singers came to The White House in his years as a President. Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. In a musical way to speak, he was the luckiest President of them all!! And by the way he had a very pleasant voice to listen to. He should have recorded a duet with Johnny Cash!!!
Soooooo true....
Great President foreign policy wise. Made one stupid mistake but irrespective of that I will always remember President Nixon as a great president and great leader who loved our country. And let's not forget his domestic policy accomplishments such as the EPA, cancer initiatives, lowering the voting age to 18 and desegregation among others.
PRESIDENT NIXON AND SECRETARY KISSINGER WORKED SO HARD
FOR PEACE WITH
CHINA.
LET US NOT TAKE
IT AS EASY NOR FOR GRANTED.
THREE SCORE AND
TEN MAY EVERYONE
ALWAYS KEEP ON
THE POSITIVE SIDE
FOR AMERICA.
AMERICA IS
PRECIOUS.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Great man!
Nixon reste l'un des meilleurs Président des États-Unis.
Il avait réduit le budget de l'armement, lutter sans relâche contre le communisme durant toute sa vie politique.
Il avait accepté l'ouverture pour voir Mao, le Président Russe, et Jean 23.
Merci Nixon
A great man and President
This speech was Nixon as unfiltered and as a broken man. All the pretense, cunning, plotting and subterfuge were gone. Some of the pettiness still came through - with his comments about the press - but he showed a humanity and, yes, decency, that he was never able to show in his 5 and 1/2 years as President nor in his almost 30-year career in public life; nor in his almost 18 years after he left the White House.
Nixon was one of the most intelligent persons to serve in the Presidency. His insights into China, the Soviet Union and the Middle East were brilliant and inspired. He was also not the right-wing reactionary that many of my party portrayed him to be. The EPA and OSHA were Nixon Administration initiatives, as was the war on cancer.
The tragedy of Nixon was in his insecurity, inferiority complex and paranoia. He could never get it out of his system about the Eastern Ivy League Elites having all the advantages and little of the talent. On a certain level, Nixon was right of course. The fatal flaw was in not overcoming the chip on his shoulder in this regard.
If the Nixon of this last speech as President had been the Nixon of the rest of his public life (sans the melancholy), he would have gone down as one of the truly great Presidents in our Republic's history. When I think of Nixon, I see the parallels to a film character created by Orson Welles in Nixon's relative youth - Charles Foster Kane. I'm altering the quote from Kane slightly in a scene in the movie to fit Nixon: "You know . . . if I hadn't been (paranoid instead of rich), I might have been a great man."
I just love watching all these people write paragraphs on a man they only know from propagandized caricatures of him. Funny shit, really.
not sure all the plotting and cunning was gone from this speech..the part about not ducking the responsbility is a stretch since he threw about 10 people under the bus before he himself finally came around
@@thekidhartford5266 Yeah, I have to admit you're right about that. I was probably giving him too much credit.
Amazing words full well knowing he was deposed by the deep state who wanted perpetual war. His mistake was to try peace.
The corporate press is the enemy of the people. Academia and Journalism are the villains. Academia manufactures public policy for the managerial state, and journalism manufactures the public opinion to enforce it.
Thanks louis
Louis had to order this from C-SPAN but we are here getting this for free. What a crazy world.
Looking at Nixon I feel sick at the thought of the shenanigans of some of the occupants of the White House who came after him
a great man!
wow August ninth '74..
the day my parents took me/us up the Eiffel tower..
(sixth birthday)
He should have been this honest and humble while President.
that could be said for most U.S. presidents.
Poor Pat Nixon!
His former hideaway at San Clemente, CA where he retreated to after he gave that farewell speech, is up for sale. The asking price is a whopping $75M. Any takers??
This is the house that served as his "Elba" for the first 5 1/2 years following his forced resignation.
Interestingly enough, Nixon was not the only Commander-in-Chief to have set foot in that mansion. FDR also set foot in that house while he was running for president back in the early 1930s.
I grew up down the street in San Juan (in 1986+tho) fact a president lived in that little town fascinated me. top it off , he's buried and born by my family mfg business. In Yorba Linda , 30miles away. Funny thing is he could've been from Alaska and I still would've as fascinated. Top it off I was born a decade afrer he was pres.
This was the saddest day in my life
He should've acknowledged his wife Pat in his speech.
Nixon should have stayed full 8 years.
I am British and I guess we are very much willing to forgive any man....or women who shows dignity and integrity in the face of absolute public humiliation and defeat (I am not saying that it is right!!)... as apposed to HC....yeah we noted that in the UK!. This man did some incredibly vile things and I don't deny that..goodness knows more than any President before...but when all else is said and done and all have left him to his fate...and with no political advantage (many will cite a delusional mindset)....he still honoured those innocuous people working for him and his parents and many others who the modern day Presidents wouldn't even know existed...thats not the behaviour of a narcissist in my mind. Which is painful coming from someone who had a very, very low opinion of Nixon...but like I said that's the Brit in me!
This is the great America. Not the America someone try to make great again.
May GOD love & help anybody who is actually TRYING to make USA better.
8:30
5:20
NIXON LEAVES AFTER THE KIAH MYSELF CONVERSIONS CHILDHOOD GOVERNMENT AGENDA....1974... TEXARKANA Arkansas.
Heh?
#shot on iPhone -12
Oh how the mighty have fallen. And the masses celebrate a sinking ship.
You can only find diamonds as being flawless by natural creation. No surprise in humans being overwhelming more flawed over the years. This is the biggest flaw of all. Judging as if you were flawless. Because like that diamond we see it as being “perfect” and having more worth and extremely desired. Having money tends to think it brings happiness, finding life yet unfulfilled. And the poor don’t need money, but they to be shown or taught to be able to make a living. Fate sucks at time, the time of being faithful has left the hearts of humans. And our children are told that gender is a choice. I need a nap
If. I. Was president i would be like truman & lbj. Just one term and. Retire
He was a human being. Deeply, deeply flawed but still a human being.
Nixon presents the world with an incredible paradoxical truth: an unguarded strength is a double weakness.
What was that he said about the White House? Funny how the current occupant calls it a “dump.”
Jorge Johnson
But he don’t wanna leave it
The White House ?
-been 50 years since Nixon left-
My 1st thought? Jeffrey Epstein visiting the White House OFTEN. You know, invited by the Clintons Bill was on Jeff’s airplane HOW many times? Devil with Blue Dress? ANY Consequences for any LIE? Ever?
Hillary is the same or worse.
Awesome president
Con rua co trai us / khong de gi thua tran
I was only a baby when he resigned.
Like trump the power of the office made Nixon think he could get away with activities that were corrupt. But unlike trump, Nixon did believe in public service, accomplished a lot for our international standing in the world, and came from nothing.
Nixon, you were a crook.
Found a human side after being found out as a crook. Not much respect for such a cynical attempt to defend his legacy.
Who cares what you think.
Listen to the tapes and you can hear what a CROOK he was
Compared to the thieves that have been in there since he isn't all that bad.
stay mad
I can only imagine how much humiliation he and his family had to go through.
Everyone knew what a big liar Nixon was and yet some aides like Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, stayed loyal to him right to the very end.
In by treason, out by obstruction of justice. And in between, mass incarceration, dirty tricks. What a distinguished record.
You hate me you really really hate me
Wonder how Trumps farewell speech will be when he is deposed.
What turd world country are you from?
@@timf2279 USA
@jabneuron really we don't use the term deposed here.
Pfft
Wouldn’t find the need for it. He would be against it for it seeming like an apology. That’s not the kind of American he plays. So don’t get to excited. Just hope he has an opportunity to get revenge.
A crook, A strange guy from early life, No respect for law and constitution. Should have gone to prison, Shame on Gerald Ford
That is the sentiments of most of America in 1974. But the facts of this case don't support that conclusion - in fact, they don't support impeachment. The ethical violations of the special prosecutor's office were myriad, which would have diluted any chance of Nixon being successfully prosecuted. Not to mention that there was not one federal law he violated IMHO.
As to Gerald Ford, I recommend listening to his speech before he signed the pardon. Given his position, I think he made the right choice - but a politically costly one. Ford was a very good man at heart and a great politician in many ways. His decision to pardon Nixon reflects his heart over his own political ambitions.
RE:Jim Mcneely... Exactly as you stated
^^^Looks like you touched a nerve
wrong what is right is that you are a liberal moron piece of trash
@@MrRocktex1978 Ouch
Trump would crush this guy in a debate
The big brainiac? Well, let’s measure! Ok, Trump might win a debate depending if anyone wants to choose the funniest as winner. But I can bet you the bank that Nixon would win the spelling bee. Only thing he spells well is his signature
You’re not serious! Nixon would have made mincemeat of Trump - without breaking a sweat!
You compared Trump to Nixon?
Your a joke. Nixon is more able in any facet of life
No sympathy for crooks
He was a crook. But in the end, he did the right thing and delivered a good speech. He's in hell, being bludgeoned by Hunter S. Thompson on a daily basis.
all politicians are crooks you liberal moron
You’re so wrong! He was a statesman. He was a leader. Compared to the fool, trump, he’s a saint.
HOW do you like Clinton and/or
Biden NOW (May 2023). ?
Still Hate Trump ?
Hunter Thompson may have hated Nixon but not as much as he hated himself.