The President Calling

Jeremy Pennington I listened to President Nixon's speech addressing the Watergate scandal. I have never listened to another one of his speeches before, but my evaluation of him, as a speaker, is that he sounds confident enough, but lacks a certain charisma that you'd expect from a president. He is not a poor speaker, but his voice didn't catch my attention by itself. During the speech, he spent most of his time protecting himself and claiming that neither he, nor any of his staff that were implicated, knew anything of it, or that they had anything to do with it. He condemned the action, saying that it was wrong, but he did not throw anyone under the bus from his administration, at least, not in the fifteen minute portion to which I listened. This type of speech is not something that was easy for me to give my full attention, so it's a good thing that there is a transcript that I could go back to and read the parts that I missed.