I listened to, “Nixon Addresses Nation Regarding Scandal”.
In this speech Nixon talks about the Watergate scandal, which happened in the
year 1972. As Nixon starts off his speech he talks about the election and how appalled
he is when he hears that White House members could have been involved. After
stating that he goes on and talks about how he will do everything in his power
to find the White House member who were involve, and says that anyone who
refuses to cooperate has to resign. He
then says that two of his close workmates have already resigned. To start out
the investigation he hires Elliot Richardson to collect all the facts and report
them straight to him. All he wanted was peace for America, and peace for the
World. Many people looked at the Watergate scandal as bankruptcy for America,
but Nixon had a different view, he looked at it as illegal acts and bad judgment
by many individuals. He wanted to protect the innocent and convict the guilty.
He said that Elliot would be fair and fearless when taking on this case. At the close end of the speech he told the
listeners how many days he had left in office, 1361, and he wanted those days
to be the best days in America’s history. He closes his speech with, “God bless
America and God bless each and every one of you.”
My opinion on the situation that Nixon had to deal with is
that he dealt with it in a fair way and did what he had to do to get the guilty
party. As Nixon’s career went on, he ended up resigning in the year 1974, after
he had heard that Congress was going to impeach him.
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