Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition.

Now this week, in fact, I think it's tomorrow, August 8th, Richard Nixon resign the presidency. Go.

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.

So he had to leave, Nixon, because he was going to be impeached and convicted in the Watergate Mass.

He was going to be impeached and convicted there. He knew it.

And that if he didn't leave, he would have been charged with crimes.

Because the tapes in the White House clearly demonstrated that Nixon was part of the cover-up of the Watergate affair.

And if you don't know what the Watergate affair is, I'm not going to waste everybody's time going back on it, but it was a crime.

It was a campaign crime.

Okay.

And he didn't order it, but when he found out about it, he tried to cover it up and get money

for the guys who were arrested and on and on.

The Nixon knew he was toast.

He also knew that Gerald Ford was going to be vice president because Agnew, his original

vice president, he had a leave because he was convicted a bribery, Agnew.

So he was booted, and then Gerald Ford became vice president.

Ford was the Speaker of the House.

Okay?

And so that's the stair step.

But Nixon knew Ford was going to pardon him before any criminal charges could be brought,

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