There can be no whitewash at the White House.

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.