Focus on the 70s - The Nixon Years - PT6: Covers the second Nixon administration, Watergate & Resignation.
1973 MS Rep. GERALD FORD and wife BETTY FORD beaming at a press conference after his ascension to the Vice-Presidency. MS President RICHARD NIXON petting his Irish Setter dog King Timahoe on White House lawn, Gerald Ford & aides abounding. MS Nixon conferring with Ford in Oval Office. EST shot of the White House, people & traffic traveling along Pennsylvania Ave. MS/TLSs anti-Nixon demonstrators in Washington, DC, banners calling for his impeachment: "Impeachment With Honor"; "Impeach Nixon"; "America Cross Your Legs"; "The Emperor Has No Clothes"; "Nixon is a Liar"; "Beat It, Dick."
MSs White House aides filling a black station wagon with edited presidential transcripts; car exits White House (nice shot). Est shot Supreme Court building. MSs President Nixon speaking at an outdoor rally.
TLS/MSs House Judiciary Committee adopting Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon, House members (including future Secretary of Defense William Cohen) debating, 1974.
TLS/MSs House Judiciary Committee adopting Articles of Impeachment against Richard Nixon, House members (including future Secretary of Defense William Cohen) debating, 1974. MSs White House aides filling a station wagon with more edited transcripts. Est shot of the White House South Lawn, reporters gathered on & around portico after tapes showed evidence of Nixon's knowledge of the break-in.
1974 CU President RICHARD NIXON resigning the Presidency (national address, excerpt only), August 8, 1974. TLS/MSs President Nixon and family leaving the White House for the last time. "I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first. America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad. To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home. Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office."
GV/MS Nixon post resignation address. MSs President GERALD FORD and BETTY FORD accompanying Richard and Pat Nixon to Marine One helicopter.
Famous MS of Richard Nixon boarding helicopter, flashing peace or victory sign; LS Marine One helicopter flying off, over Jefferson Monument.
DO NOT USE: Nixon talking about Vietnam w/ the credits running over the footage.