and has to be affirmed. i must say to you that the state of the union is not good these people somehow politics into power and make the government work. we re privileged to witness a significant achievement in the cause of peace. what was once a distant foreign policy to issue has become a domestic issue there is no delays in the spirit of this country. we can turn of this country around and we can turn our economy around. and the time to do it is now . just a few moments now, president nixon will be appearing before the people perhaps as last time as president of the united states. hail to the chief good evening, i shall resign the presidency affected tomorrow. turning over the direction of the government to vice president ford i know that the leadership of america will be in good hands. in those first few days and weeks when gerald ford ascended the presidency you can say if you were casting someone to play the road to heal a nation, gerald ford would win
you were casting someone to play the road to heal a nation, gerald ford would win the nation ladies and gentlemen the vice president of the united states and mrs. ford. gerald ford was one of the most popular people in congress, conservative and republican to the core. but always willing to talking always willing to compromise. my fellow americans, our long national nightmare is over. part of what gerald ford wanted to do was move beyond watergate. to say our long national nightmare is over was to try to tell the nation my main job as president will be to heal of this country. may our former president, who brought peace to millions find it for himself [cheers and applause] david what do you think? i would guess that in his term we may see a little of what we are promised in the preamble
days to come i gerald ford president of the united states grant a full free and absolute pardon on to richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. do you think the president s action was wrong. absolutely wrong. ford did the generous thing and i think the american people must forget about nixon. it raises as a political issue the whole question of equal justice under law except for president whose seem to get special triplet. we re about to see something which, as far as we know may never have been seen before in american history, a sitting president of the united states testifying before a congressional committee. subcommittee will be in order. i just been out of law school a few years. i was the last person on that subcommittee to ask a question. and i thought for sure somebody in the subcommittee would ask president ford the tough questions about the pardon. nobody asked the questions. i would like to point out,
law and order nixon people, you got to do conservativism with a smile, making people feel good, not scold them. we can turn of this country around and our economy around and the time to do it is now: there are many democrats worried that carter is not going to win, so ted kennedy, who s a senator from massachusetts, decides to take him on. today, i formally announce that i m a candidate for president of the united states. many democrats believe carter moved too far to the center and that he abandoned the traditional ideas of the party. jimmy carter and kennedy became the popular opposites within the party and jimmy carter on top of that had a feeling that the kennedys felt they were above southerners.
but america can t do a damn thing. ted kopple news, wallet cronkite, carter started becoming the symbol of lost american prestige. ronald reagan is running officially got in the race tonight in new york city at a fund-raising dinner and tape add speech yesterday for showing between the on about 90 independent television stayingses i mean here between the to announce my intention to seek the republican nominations for president of the united states, crisis we face is not the result of failure of the american spirit, it s a failure of leaders. the country is looking for optimism, dawn, new beginnings and ronald reagan i put it miced all of those things between 76 and 80, reagan is building a coalition bringing in christian fundamentalists and