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The original documents are located in Box 34, folder "Nixon Pardon - Nixon Statement,
9/8/74" of the Philip Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 34 of the Philip Buchen Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
San Clemente, California
STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
SEPTEMBER 8, 1974
I have been informed that President Ford has granted
me a full and absolute pardon for any charges which
might be brought against me for actions taken during
the time I was President of the United States. In
accepting this pardon, I hope that his compassionate
act will contribute to lifting the burden of Watergate
from our country.
Here in California, my perspective on Watergate is
quite different than it was while I was embattled
in the midst of the controversy, and while I was
still subject to the unrelenting daily demands of
the Presidency itself.
Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex
and confusing maze of events, decisions, pressures,
and personalities, one thing I can see clearly now
is that I was wrong in not acting more decisively
and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate,
particularly when it reached the stage of judicial
proceedings and grew from a political scandal into
a national tragedy.
2
No words can describe the depth of my regret and
pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have
caused the Nation and the Presidency --- a Nation
I so deeply love, and an institution I so greatly
respect.
I know that many fair-minded people believe that my
motivations and actions in the Watergate affair
were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now
understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments
have contributed to that belief and seemed to support
it. This burden is the heaviest one of all
to bear.
That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the
wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day
of the life that is left to me.
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STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
I have been informed that President Ford nas granted
me a full and absolute pardon for any charges which
might be brought against me for actions taken during
the time I was President of the United States. In
accepting this pardon, I hope that his compassionate
act will contribute to lifting the burden of Watergan
from our country.
Here in California, my perspective on Watergate is
quite different than it was while I was embataled
in the midst of the controversy, and while I WAS
still subject to the unrelenting daily demands of
the Presidency itself.
Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex
and confusing maze of events, decisions, pressures.
and personalities, one thing I can see clearly now
is that I was wrong in not acting more decisively
and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate,
particularly when it reached the stage of judicial
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proceedings and grew from a political scandal into
a national tragedy.
2
No words can describe the depth of my regret and
pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have
caused the Nation and the Presidency
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I so deeply love, and an institution I so greatly
respect.
I know that many fair-minded people believe that my
motivations and actions in the Watergate affair
were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now
understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments
have contributed to that belief and seemed to support
it. This burden is the heaviest one of all
to bear.
That the way I. tried to deal with Watergate was the
wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day
of the life that is left to me.
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September 8, 1974
San Clemente, California
STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
I have been informed that President Ford has granted me a full and absolute
pardon for any charges which might be brought against me for actions taken
during the time I was President of the United States. In accepting this
pardon, I hope that his compassionate act will contribute to lifting the
burden of Watergate from our country.
Here in California, my perspective on Watergate is quite different than it
was while I was embattled in the midst of the controversy, and while I was
still subject to the unrelenting daily demands of the Presidency itself.
Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex and confusing maze of
events, decisions, pressures, and personalities, one thing I can see clearly
now is that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly
in dealing with Watergate, particularly when it reached the stage of judicial
proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy.
No words can describe the depth of my regret and pain at the anguish my
mistakes over Watergate have caused the Nation and the Presidency --- a
Nation I so deeply love, and an institution I so greatly respect.
I know that many fair-minded people believe that my motivations and actions
in the Watergate affair were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now
understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments have contributed to that
belief and seemed to support it. This burden is the heaviest one of all to bear.
That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the wrong way is a burden I
shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me,
#
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FROM: Ann Grien
TO: Connie Girard
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DTG 0815357
TOR 0815347
'74 SEP 8 AM
SPECIAL INSTRUCTION:
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SEPTEMBER 8,
San Clemente, California
STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
I have been informed that President Ford has granted
me a full and absolute pardon for any charges which
might be brought against me for actions taken during
the time I was President of the United States. In
accepting this pardon, I hope that his compassionate
act will contribute to lifting the burden of Watergate
from our country.
Here in California, my perspective on Watergate is
quite different than it was while I was embattled
in the midst of the controversy, and while I W&A
still subject to the unrelenting daily demands of
the Presidency itself.
Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex
and confusing maze of events, decisions, pressures,
and personalities, one thing I can see clearly now
is that I was wrong in not acting more decisively
and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate,
particularly when it reached the stage of judicial
proceedings and grew from a political scandal into
a national tragedy.
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No words can describe the depth of my regret and
pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have
caused the Nation and the Presidency ----- a Nation
I so deeply love, and an institution I so greatly
respect.
I know that many fair-minded people believe that my
motivations and actions in the Watergate affair
were intentionally self-serving and illegal. I now
understand how my own mistakes and misjudgments
have contributed to that belief and seemed to support
it. This burden is the heaviest one of all
to bear.
That the way I tried to deal with Watergate was the
wrong way is a burden I shall bear for every day
of the life that is left to me.
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