"Let me tell you something of the goals of this better America toward which we will strive."

"War is a terrible and cruel experience for a nation, and it's particularly terrible and cruel for those who bear the burden of fighting."

"I ask for your support for our brave men fighting tonight halfway around the world, not for territory, not for glory..."

"I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned."

Dwight D. Eisenhower won th Republican party's nomination for president on the first ballot, gathering 845 convention votes and defeating his chief opponent, Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

"Tonight I want to talk to you on a subject of deep concern to all Americans and to many people in all parts of the world, the war in Vietnam."

In that "Incredible Year" of 1968, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, August 8th.

Listen to audio selections from the 1950s with speeches given by world leaders.

Richard M. Nixon's 1973 inaugural address began his second term as president.

"And so I say to you on this occasion we leave, we leave proud of the people who have stood by us and worked for us..."

"In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility..."

"This past year saw far-reaching results from our new policies for peace."

Includes eight highlights of speeches, beginning with the Checkers Speech from 1952, the debate with John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Nixon/Kruschev debate and his resignation.

With the departure of Spiro Agnew from the office of Vice-President, President Nixon announced the appointment of Republican House Leader Gerald R. Ford as his replacement.

Nixon's press conferences were becoming increasingly combative and this conference was no different with Nixon’s famous retort to a reporter “one is only angry with those one respects”.

This conversation between President Richard Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H R. (Bob) Haldeman, establishes the President's involvement in a conspiracy to cover-up the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington DC