While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

I don't give a damn about the civilians.

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.