Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

Richard Nixon... was just offered $2 million by Schick to do a television commercial - for Gillette.

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon.

So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.

I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might and that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.