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never profited from public service--I have earned every cent.
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November
Watergate
And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.
Watergate
And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice.
Watergate
At the end of a lengthy response to a question about his personal finances, the President famously said, "And so, that is where the money came from.
Watergate
Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the television audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited,
Watergate
Nixon says he never profited from public service and states that he earned the money he possesses.
Watergate
Nixon tells the television audience that he made mistakes but denies profiting personally from his years in public service.
Watergate
The President gave another televised press conference, this time from the Contemporary Hotel in Disney World, where the President was attending the Annual Convention of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association.
Watergate
Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got."
Watergate
never profited from public service--I have earned every cent.
White House Tape Gap Disclosure
The White House discloses an eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in the June 20, 1972 Nixon-Haldeman recording, a conversation made three days after the Watergate break-in.
White House Tapes
Haldeman's personal notes on the meeting indicate that the break-in was the subject under discussion. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, in initial testimony about the tape, said, "The buttons said on and off, forward and backward.
White House Tapes
I caught on to that fairly fast.
White House Tapes
The White House reports missing subpoenaed recordings and an eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in the June 20, 1972 Nixon-Haldeman conversation.
White House Tapes
The disputed June 20, 1972 recording concerns a conversation between President Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman.
White House Tapes
Woods demonstrates how she says she could have accidentally erased part of a presidential recording while operating transcription equipment and reaching for a telephone.
White House Tapes
Woods denies deliberately erasing the recording and says any accidental erasure she caused would account for only part of the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap.
White House Tapes
Haldeman's personal notes on the meeting indicate that the break-in was the subject under discussion. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, in initial testimony about the tape, said, "The buttons said on and off, forward and backward.
White House Tapes
I caught on to that fairly fast.
White House Tapes
The White House reports missing subpoenaed recordings and an eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in the June 20, 1972 Nixon-Haldeman conversation.
White House Tapes
The disputed June 20, 1972 recording concerns a conversation between President Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman.
White House Tapes
Woods demonstrates how she says she could have accidentally erased part of a presidential recording while operating transcription equipment and reaching for a telephone.
White House Tapes
Woods denies deliberately erasing the recording and says any accidental erasure she caused would account for only part of the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap.
White House Tapes
The White House acknowledges missing subpoenaed recordings and an eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in a June 20, 1972 conversation with H. R. Haldeman.
White House Tapes
Haldeman's personal notes on the meeting indicate that the break-in was the subject under discussion. Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, in initial testimony about the tape, said, "The buttons said on and off, forward and backward.
White House Tapes
I caught on to that fairly fast.
White House Tapes
The White House reports missing subpoenaed recordings and an eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap in the June 20, 1972 Nixon-Haldeman conversation.
White House Tapes
The disputed June 20, 1972 recording concerns a conversation between President Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman.
White House Tapes
Woods denies deliberately erasing the recording and says any accidental erasure she caused would account for only part of the eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap.
Pioneer 10 Bow Shock Crossing
Pioneer 10 crosses Jupiter's bow shock, beginning direct sampling of the Jovian magnetospheric boundary.
Seven Watergate Tapes Received
Receives seven presidential recordings from Nixon's lawyers for judicial review in the continuing Watergate tapes dispute.
Tape Erasure Demonstration
Demonstrates how she says part of a presidential tape could have been erased accidentally while she operated transcription equipment and reached for a telephone.
Tape Erasure Explanation
Explains that she accidentally erased part of a June 1972 presidential recording while transcribing it, though the full eighteen-and-a-half-minute gap remains unexplained.
Tape Erasure Demonstration
Demonstrates how she says part of a presidential tape could have been erased accidentally while she operated transcription equipment and reached for a telephone.
White House Tapes
Woods demonstrates how she says she could have accidentally erased part of a presidential recording while operating transcription equipment and reaching for a telephone.
Saturday Night Massacre
Congress was infuriated about the Saturday Night Massacre. Numerous resolutions to impeach him were introduced in the House. Nixon, feeling the pressure, agreed to release some of the tapes to District Judge Sirica
Shuttle Diplomacy
Begins postwar shuttle diplomacy between Israel and Arab states.
December
Pioneer 10 Close-Up Imaging
Pioneer 10 begins returning Jupiter images surpassing the best Earth-based views then available.
Pioneer 10 Jupiter Flyby
Pioneer 10 makes humanity's first close spacecraft encounter with Jupiter.
Pioneer 10 Radiation Measurements
Pioneer 10 instruments confirm Jupiter's intense radiation environment.
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