President Richard Nixon - Address Announcing Resignation
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After the turmoil of the Watergate scandal, and the initiation of impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives, President Nixon decides to resign from office and announces the decision to the American people.
August 8th, 1974
Louis CK brought me here
Same mate. He said that Nixon cried. He did not.
Louis CK you lying bitch!!
Still love him tho... no homo.
Eduardo Pineda me too
Eduardo Pineda lol me too.
Eduardo Pineda That lying bastard... He said he cried.
President Nixon, I salute you for valiantly defending the Pentagon against the zombie horde.
huh?
@@andrewjohnston1834call of duty
💀💀
Sounds like someone's breaking in!!
@@joem.3124It's just a storm Dick, sit down
Am I the only one who watched this because of a genuine interest in this historical moment?
Nope
+Ethan Cooke Yes! You're the only one.
I actually just got done watching the Kirsten Dunst movie called DICK. So I'm here for the history.
No. I'd only ever heard the "resign" soundbite, and I was curious to see what else he said.
OUuUuUuUuUuU you are sooo smart
AND THEN HE JUST FLEW AWAY!
...and the whole nation just watched him go.
That shit was fucking CRAZY!
L.C.K.
Dick Huntz with those big ears of his?
Man the fuck, this is hilarious!
37th president, 37th televised speech. Interesting coincidence.
The comment above you says the same thing and was wrote 4 months before this. Interesting coincidence.
Holy shit, i never noticed that. That is an interesting coincidence
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Your moms and interesting coincidence
no coincidence its a Decree of Almighty
Nixon may have been a crook, but at least he knew when to quit.
prescient
He wasn't a crook. If he just didn't let those other crooks break into the Watergate Complex he wouldn't have resigned. He just didn't do the right thing in that situation.
@@evanhsiehNo, he was a crook. The investigation into the burglary unravelled a web of crimes that Nixon committed while in office. It also showed us that Nixon was taping a lot of conversations he had in the White House. He also sabotaged the peace talks between LBJ and Vietnam in '68 so that he could get elected in the first place. That's not even mentioning the secret bombing of Cambodia and how he tried to cover up the Pentagon Papers. Nixon was a crook. Now, if he didn't try to cover up the Watergate investigation so that it couldn't be directly traced back to him, sure, he probably wouldn't have resigned. He only resigned because he knew that he would be impeached by the House and most likely removed from office by the Senate and he didn't want that to happen. That most likely wouldn't have been the case. However, Nixon was a crook.
@@memestagram4028 I know all of what you said. He was a great man (before watergate and that stuff) but people just didn't accept him because he didn't go to an Ivy League school?!
@@evanhsieh I mean, he went to Duke, which is basically the closest thing you can get to an Ivy League school that isn't an Ivy League school. I don't see why he wouldn't be accepted for that.
Richard Nixon brought me here.
Forrest Gump took me here.
George VI Edge of Eternity (Ken Follett) brought me here.
Boredom brought me here
I brought me here because I searched it.
Lol
Dammit.
I was expecting him to sound like he does on Futurama.
AROOOOOO!
Dumb comment
Brent Rogers Damn Hippie!
micholly AAARWWWOOOOOOO!!!!
*shakes head and flaps cheeks around*
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i love that through the whole video the camera is slowly zooming in lol it makes it so much more dramatic
At least Nixon had the decency to do this when he knew he had this option.
Get used to Trump dear.
Matthew Klahn I do hope Trump resigns before impeachment because the left thinks it knows what violence looks like. If Trump is ousted, we will elect a violent dictator, and that one will scoff at your due process as he systematically consolidates his power by force and bloodshed.
@@generalralph6291 I'm pretty sure the U.S. President doesn't have that kind of power.
@@matthewklahn7523 It just isn't logical for a U.S. resident to become a dictator considering how many limitations there are to the presidency. He/she can't really do much without the approval of Congress, and even if they somehow managed to convince all of Congress to completely throw out the Constitution, there's too much resistance from the press and the public for anything notable to happen.
@@matthewklahn7523 Again, that's not a dictatorship. He can order the armed services for a maximum of 60 days. And even if Trump steps down from office and gets a pardon, that's still not a dictatorship. Is it wrong, yes, but so is the two-party system that birthed it.
Am I the only one who watched this because Louis CK made fun of it?
lol Louis CK is the best
***** Lol thanks bro. Louis CK is my favorite comedian
***** That's really cool! I've never watched Bill Hicks, but I think I will now. Louis CK's are my favorite, I like his "I don't care" attitude, I like how he offends people, because I feel like this generation is filled with nothing but sensitive people. It really is amazing that your english can improve because of it, although, most of the things he says probably aren't the best to say. lol jk
+Sam Hudson Not alone!
I had to see this after Louis CK said he cried like an insane person and flew away in a helicopter, lol
I came here purely to see if the Nixon off Futurama has an accurate voice
almost!
"...it was my duty to PRPRPRPRPRRPsevere, to make every PRPRPRPRPssible effort..."
Foehammer omg same!
Me too
dudeee same here hahhaha
60% LOUIS CK
25% FUTURAMA
5% TEARING UP or FLYING AWAY
5% THEIR STORY ON HOW BAD HE WAS
5% ACTUALLY HERE FOR NIXON AND A HISTORICAL MOMENT
0.1% OF PEOPLE TYPING IN CAPS LOCK FOR NO FUCKING REASON
I’m here because of Louis
X-Men days of future past
1% TikTok
I’m here cause of school
this is a heartfelt speech, yet its kinda hard to take serriously considering the fact that if he didnt say this, he wouldve been kicked out of office and awaited an obstruction of justace charge legally even afterwards
Nixon did the right thing to resign. Because he didn't want his crime record exposed deeply.
He knew there is a secret government that's why they impeach him
Steve Rodriguez oohhhh
Not really if a president resigns before being fired he still gets the pension
Nope, he resigned because he and Gerald agreed for him to be pardoned imediately once he resigned, immediately placing Gerald as POTUS. If he didn’t resign, it would not be certain the next sitting president would save him.
I am here cause he is my great great uncle may he rest in piece.
Louis CK brought me here too!!
Me too lol
Yay, me too! :) so sad... haha
Same here, except he didn't fly away.What the FUCK!!!!
Jordan Reyes and didn't cry at all
How did he bring you here?
He's the 37th President and that was his 37th time he spoke from the White House....weird.
I wonder which number August 15 1971 was.
@@andrewlin7247 August 15 1971, think about it... 71 - 19 = 52 and 52 - 15 = 37! ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED!
@@nick56677 they are in my walls i can hear them richard nixon is hiding in my walls
Ford would have been just as good if it weren't for peanut-head as what they called Jimmy Carter.
and the garbage man was 37 years old when he got a hj at a county fair from a miner
the original youtuber apology
so true
frank Underwood forced him.
I thought Spacey was into little boys?!
Dammit Frank! Not again!
I'm not a fan, but as a historian, it's clear that Nixon was probably the most important president of the past 40 years. He laid the groundwork for so many important aspects of our national policy today, from NEPA, the War on Drugs, the opening of relations with China, arms limitations with the Soviets, the establishment of the volunteer armed forces... His administration is just loaded with significant public policy initiatives.
War on drug made everything worse and drugs are winning tho
@@ethiostaticETV To be fair, important doesn't necessarily mean "good". Like him or not, Nixon was one of the most consequential presidents, both for the good that he did and the bad.
coordinating an influx of drugs in urban areas...
EPA and visiting China to further the Sino Soviet split were his biggest accomplishments. We are definitely losing the war on drugs.
agree
I am not a crook
I'm here cuz of the comments in the Louie CK video, saying there were comments on this video about coming from there.
Anyone here not because of Louis CK?
here
+Logan Corder Me to.
+Logan Corder Same. Genuinely here because I'm interested, and watched on my own volition, not because a comedian made a funny.
+Logan Corder Yep. Me too.
+Logan Corder Who is Louis CK?
I remember watching this on TV but I was too young to understand what was going on. I remember people's disappointment because, at that time, he was the most popular president ever and the bigger they are the harder they fall. People used to believe the president was infallible, this incident ended the idealization of that fantasy.
Crazy stuff. I love when people who were there at the time chime in and give you a first hand perspective.
Niko , man what's your age , ! ? Are u still there ?
A CIA incursion.
I also think that these words of Conrad Black pretty much sums it up: "Richard Milhous Nixon achieved as much as any American political leader since Abraham Lincoln, except for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and perhaps Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he did it against his own unusually troublesome anxiety and limitations and awkwardness. He was often his own enemy, because of his complex personality, and he attracted legions of constant conventional enemies. He fought successfully all his long life, and when he died, he was acknowledged to be unique - and, in his way, a great - American. His enemies fell away, and he slipped the surly bonds of mortal combat and became the embodiment, the allegorization, of generally well-intentioned determination, not less than human in his failings, but almost superhuman in his strengths. And he had begun to gnaw at the conscience of the nation."
Beginning a transfer of wealth, getting of the honest gold standard, until here we are today? ...and nothing but a mutt to Prescott Bush, being beholden to him?
Naw he sucks ass
He is no hero. He dropped hundreds of thousands of bombs on Cambodia, a neutral state.
Mrs. Robinson plays in my head everytime I see this clip!
lmao, this account still active btw?
Well he didn't cry and left in a helicopter.
He didn't go to prison either ☹️ This stuff happens in 🍌 republics which is what we are. The corruption is much now, 2019, much worse.
@@josedcarrillo24 I hope so mate!
I saw this as a nine-year-old, barely grasping the historical significance. But, without defending Nixon for what he did, political debate in the 2020s couldn’t hold a candle even to the greatest of scandals in the 1970s. The grace and eloquence of those bygone days will likely never be seen again in this era of hate, antagonism, and utter lack of respect for opposing views, enhanced by the sound and fury of social media.
I almost got drafted. I like Nixon. We got out of Nam with him.
So when does he start crying like a mad person?
+和ァ独 in his farewell address to the white house staff
WaaDoku 【和ァ独】 I was literally waiting for that part
I don't even know who Louis CK is, I'm here because I specifically searched for this
Same, seeing those comments is annoying.
Hallelujah! I agree wholeheartedly.
You have to watch his stuff ! He‘s hilarious
Look guys we have a special snowflake he searched for this
Good for you, have a cookie?
Just wanted to see what a presidential resignation looks like for when it happens again soon
alvatrous Trump is too much of an egomaniac to ever give a speech like this. To put, as Nixon says, America first, before his personal interest, is unthinkable for someone like Trump.
I feel sorry for him. What he did was terrible but he did a lot of good for this country.
Which state
Underrated orator.
Haha, I love how the description says: "Artist: Richaerd Nixon"
lol I didn't see a single tear :D
check out the nixon whitehouse farewell to the staff. he cries. and then in another video, he actually does get in a helicopter and fly away XD
The irony is he didn't need to pull a Watergate. He could have been on the receiving end of Watergate and won big time.
Where the fuck is fry and bender? I want a refund!
This resignation brought to you by Charleston Chew!! Arrrrrooo!
Thanks!
“I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement and I don’t expect to be forgiven, I’m simply here to apologize”
If only today's leaders would have this backbone! He speaks the truth. Yea, I may have blew it. However, I cared more about this Country, and its people, that I RESIGNED. God help us now.
Truly a watershed moment in American politics. Hell, even American History. A shame he wasn't ever tried for this
At a cost of Ford being elected as president
truly one of the watergate moments in american history
Not to "reveal" the crimes of Nixon, but to "hide" the influence of the CIA and their ilk. Just like the "suicide" of Jeffery Epstein. Hide the "real power" .
I just remember him for the phrase "I'm not a crook"
holy shit!!! is that a TNO reference???
one of our best presidents, best foreign affair policy, and good social intrest.
He literally bombed Cambodia, a neutral state. Wtf???
The Watergate Scandal, which is what led to Nixon's resignation, is actually referenced a couple of times in the Metal Gear series. First in Metal Gear Solid and it's remake "The Twin Snakes" then again in MGS2 Sons of Liberty. One of the references is shared, which is "Deepthroat", the informant from the Watergate Scandal. In the first Metal Gear Solid and its remake, Solid Snake is contacted via Codec by a mysterious being who identifies as such which leads to Snake referencing the aforementioned scandal. MGS2 had a callback to Deepthroat, only for the one trying to use that alias realizing that the one who previously used it was confirmed to be dead, which was Gray Fox.
thanks dude
Man, how big was the font, he really rifled through those papers
It takes a real leader of a country to put the country before him. This man was a leader
***** and you could do better?
you know i revoke my comment cause we actually just learned about him in US history and shit i was way off so my bad
Highly doubt Nixon ever considered his own nation. It contains no admission of wrongdoing, so his speech was just a excuse. How ever I do admit it respects the Presidency as an Institution, but only to save his own flesh.
Nixon opened the doors to China, something that his immediate predecessors had never done; he established detente with the Soviets, something that his predecessors had never done too; he withdrew all the troops, including POWs from Vietnam; he, along with Henry Kissinger, had brought about the disengagement of Israeli and Egyptian forces. So Nixon's achievements were unique in some ways.
Obama's achievements, on the other hand, were brought about because he continued the policies set forth by his predecessor, George W.. ObamaCare was patterned after RomneyCare.
Are you daft? This man killed a lot of Cambodia because a little voice told him viet kongs were hiding out there! (which resulted in absolute bullshit) Cambodia, a peaceful country… this guy has always been worthless, fuck him. may he rest in pieces
NIXON NOW MORE THEN EVER!!!!
OH god! I literally just watched that routine and searched this clip out because of it!
One of the happiest days of my life!!!
My mom said it felt like xmas day we may feel that way again lol
@@stevestrong5075 My mom said its still strange to hear him sometimes at night you can hear his voice through the walls he is in the walls richard nixon is living in my walls
Nixon is/was easily the most complex and emotionally divided/challenged President that our country has had. He did many things that were morally corrupt in the context of history, but he also did many things that were just in that same accord. He let his own insecurities topple what he had built from a lifetime of dedication. There is poetic justice, and a sad irony to be found. No matter what, Nixon was our most "interesting" leader.And he did more (good or bad) than any ever could...
I mean at least he did this in his second term and not his first
Presidential speeches have come a long way.
dagoninfinite you are a BOSS.
America needs you NOW MORE THAN EVER Mr. Nixon.
Rest in peace
I found a cassette tape of this speech but the full things why are there differences?
Anyone else here because of the impeachment inquiry?
it is disappointing that so many people disapproved of him. Yes, he did some bad things, but in his first year as president there were three launches into space, and he did the right thing by stepping down as president. He could have just done nothing, and serve out his term, but he had the balls to step down! I wish I could have shaken his hand! He was a great man!
The moon landing never happened, wake up
Did some bad things??????? He literally bombed a neutral state. Wtf
Unpopular opinion: Nixon was an infinitely better president than either Trump or Biden (in most regards).
He’s better than every president that came after Clinton
Agreed
He was a war mongerer, Trump was a peacemaker, Biden was a hair sniffer.
Hard to believe that this was almost 40 years ago!
was this on live TV at the time?
Time will be gentleman with this man
Is anyone watching in 2020 during the virus at home?
HOLY SHIT MAN this is the EXACT reason why i'm here!!
i cant find it! can someone put a link in the comments where nixon says, "i am not a crook"?
those secretary's sure do a good job on their speeches.
The Clinton administration is especially known for that
Who the fuck is Louis? I'm here because I just find shit like this interesting...
Same bro
I'm here to study for a degree in History lmfao
Same.
I thought I was the only geek!
AWS Germany me too
it is not this one, Louis CK was talking about the "President Nixon's Farewell to the White House Staff" video
A documentary called 13th on Netflix brought me here.
Louis brought me here too!
One of the big things he did was opening up foreign relations with China, and helped put an end to the Vietnam war.
and look how that turned out
He also formed the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
I saw this live on TV!
The first apology video *ever*
Best flippin' politician ever, and so smart. Too bad this all happened
The "orange🍊- in - chief" brought me here
The Orange man is a crook
@@siberiantaurus8853 At least you know he is. Bush and Obama were worse
Was this before or after his nunchaku fight with Black Dynamite?
I watched this to hear him say “I shall resign as presidency...” with that voice
This is Trump in couple of months lol
Don Dan yeah
There's no way that Trump would be this gracious.
Trump will be way too careful to let himself be impeached in a couple months
No. Trump has already exceeded his constitutionally allowed limitations, and has already violated the oath of office. If he is being "careful", it's clearly not enough care. He has placed personal interests over the interests of the nation.
Yeah but the problem is that neither he nor most of Congress thinks that he's done that. They think he's doing what's best for the nation. They also don't think he's violated the Constitution (and neither do I, for that matter, although he certainly has issued some bad policies).
You may disagree, but until Congress thinks he's put his own interests above the interests of the nation, he won't be impeached. Honestly, I'd love it if he were impeached, but I doubt it will happen.
Did anyone not come here because of Louis C.K.?
Idk who Louis CK is
Because you were looking for the weeping president ? ..
Inert Brian some dick
Before this weekend, nobody who was under the age of 40 came to see this video. Thanks Louis Ck!!
Why’d it gotta end like that😭
if Trump doesn't want to lose the Election, despite the fact he is losing right as we speak, he could always do this:
Not sure about that, Hillary was "winning" up until election day. I could be wrong but _we shall see_
Didn't realize I was among many fellow Louis C.K. fans here
Who is this Louis C.K?
Phenomabomb yesssssss 😂
This is history!.
here in 2024
When does he weep like an insane person, then get on a helicopter and fly away?
That was the next day. In the morning before Ford was sworn in he made another little speech. He was under stress but didn't cry, just got a bit teary eyed, then went to his helicopter and flew away. But Barbara Walters cried. When the coverage switched back to the studio from the White House, Barbara was sitting there and her mascara had run down both her cheeks. Kinda surreal. You don't see that tape very often!
I came here because of House of Cards.
Good shit
I woke up from a dream in which nixon was still president, and I was so pleased. We need nixon back people!
~Harvey
I was making reference to hellofaname's comment saying 'Thank you Forrest Gump' and I wrote back insinuating that President Gerlad Ford was more like Forrest Gump than President Richard Nixon. Do you now understand professor?
greatest foreign affairs president of all time by far!
Nixon going to China is partially responsible for the monster of a country today. We thought capitalism would crush communism. Turns out the Chinese under Deng Xiaoping got smart, took the parts they liked, and kept on trucking with Chinese characteristics. Thanks Nixon! You and Kissinger created our new worst enemy.
The most profound end to the 60's.
This was in 1974
I wish Joe Biden would address the nation in a similar manner.
THAT WAS CRAZY!
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luis ck ....brought me herre
This is my favorite song
Anyone from Futurama?