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尼克松的辞职演讲

Good evening:

This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been

made that shape the history of this nation.Each time I have done so to discu with you some

matter that I believe affected the national interest.In all the decisions I have made in my public life

I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere to

make every poible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.In the past few

days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in

the Congre to justify continuing that effort.As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it

was neceary to see the constitutional proce through to its conclusion.That to do otherwise

would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult proce, and a dangerously

destabilizing precedent for the future.But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that

the constitutional purpose has been served.And there is no longer a need for the proce to be

www.daodoc.com prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have

involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.But the interests of the nation must

always come before any personal considerations.From the discuions I have had with Congreional and other leaders I have concluded that

because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congre that I would consider

neceary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every

instinct in my body.But as President, I must put the interests of America first.America needs a fulltime President and a fulltime Congre, particularly at this time with problems

we face at home and abroad.To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal

vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the

Congre in a period when our entire focus should be on the great iues of peace abroad and

prosperity without inflation at home.Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon

tomorrow.Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadne

that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two

and a half years.But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford I know, as

I told the nation when I nominated him for that office ten months ago, that the leadership of

America would be in good hands.In paing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of

responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow, and therefore of the understanding, the

patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.As he aumes that responsibility he will

deserve the help and the support of all of us.As we look to the future, the first eential is to begin

healing the wounds of this nation.To put the bitterne and divisions of the recent past behind us

and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that proce of healing which is so

desperately needed in America.I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course

of the events that led to this decision.I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong

and some were wrong they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, the

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many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be

eternally grateful for your support.And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let

me say I leave with no bitterne toward those who have opposed me, because all of us in the final

analysis have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.So let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new

President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.I shall leave this office with regret at not

completing my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past

five and a half years.These years have been a momentous time in the history of our nation and the

world.They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that

represent the shared efforts of the administration, the Congre and the people.But the challenges

ahead are equally great.And they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congre and

the people, working in cooperation with the new Administration.We have ended America's longest war.But in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the

goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult.We must complete a structure of peace, so that it will be said of this generation—our generation of Americans—by the people of all nations，not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the

People's Republic of China.We must now insure that the one-quarter of the world's people who live

in the People's Republic of China will be and remain, not our enemies, but our friends.In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us

their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends.We must continue to build on that

friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization

will not become its grave.Together with the Soviet Union, we have made the crucial breakthroughs

that have begun the proce of limiting nuclear arms.But, we must set as our goal, not just limiting，but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons, so that they cannot destroy civilization.And so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.We have

opened a new relation with the Soviet Union.We must continue to develop and expand that new

relationship, so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.Around the world in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East there are millions of

people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation.We must keep as our goal turning away from

production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can

at last look forward, in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the neceities for a

decent life.Here, in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the bleings

of liberty but also the means to live full and good, and by the world's standards even abundant lives.We must pre on, however, toward a goal not only of more and better jobs but of full opportunity

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for every American, and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve prosperity without inflation.For more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this

evening.I have fought for what I believe in.I have tried, to the best of my ability, to discharge

those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.Sometimes I have succeeded.And sometimes I have failed.But always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once

said about the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives

valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and

shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the

triumphs of high achievements and with the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that

spirit.I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my

years as a Congreman, a Senator, Vice President and President, the cause of peace not just for

America but among all nations prosperity, justice and opportunity for all of our people.There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted

for as long as I live.When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I

made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can

summon to the cause of peace among nations.I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not

only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a

better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency.This, more than

anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.To have

served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American.In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.