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
aimless. he s a good actor but he also is a foremidible challenger. ronald reagan was challenging a sitting president in his own party, relatively conservative president and calling him a liberal sell-out in the texas primary reagan wiped out the president in stunning victory. in august of 1974, of this country had difficult and foremidible obstacles ahead of us, we went in the right direction, young man and for those of you this was a period of time right in the wake of watergate, americans were very, very suspicious about government and about people who spent too much time in washington, dc. so jimmy card carter could run as someone called himself an outsider, wasn t tainted boy wanted. i recall running for president it was a major headline that said jimmy carter