of my years of public life, i have never profited, never profited from public service. i earned every cent. in all of my careers in public life, i have never obstructed justice, and i think, too, that i can 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. well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. the crux of nixon s tax scandal was that when he left the white house after being eisenhower s vice president, he took all of his vice presidential records with him. nixon then donated those records back to the national archives, year after year, so he could write the donations off of his income taxes for a grand total somewhere in the ballpark of $500,000. as much as we all associate nixon with watergate, his tax scandal was a huge deal at the time. it was so big that it basically forced 96 ton release some of
this in examination because people have got to know whether or not the president is a crook. well i m not a crook. i have earned everything i ve got. the crux of nixon s tax scandal is that when he left white house after being eisenhower s vice president is that he took his vice presidential records with them. nixon then don t need those records back to the national archives, year after year, so that he could write the donations off of his income taxes. for a grand total, somewhere in the ball part of $500,000. as much as we also see next with watergate, his tax scandal was a huge deal at the time. so big that it basically forced nixon to release some of his tax returns to the public. congress didn t trust him and ended up ordering the arrest to show even more. that is how we got nixon tax scandal. to avoid scandals like that, every president since nixon has voluntarily released his tax returns. every president except donald trump.