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1、第 1 页 英语演讲:Resignation Speech1 特征码 HbHsiUhTmJnaAYkxPkXe Richard M. Nixon: Resignation Speech 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 discuss with you some matt
2、er 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 possible effort to plete the ter
3、m of office to which you elected me. In the past few days, however, it has bee evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional proce
4、ss through to its conclusion; that 第 2 页 to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, 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 the
5、re is no longer a need for the process to be 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 e before any personal considerations. From the di
6、scussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the na
7、tion will require. I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is pleted is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as President, I must put the interests of America first. America needs 第 3 页 a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems
8、 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 Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without infl
9、ation 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 sadness that I will not be here in this offic
10、e 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 第 4 页 nominated him for that office ten months ago, that the leadership of America would be in good hands. In p
11、assing 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 assumes that responsibility he will deserv
12、e the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this nation. To put the bitterness 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
13、as a free people. By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process 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 ju
14、dgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the ti 第 5 页 me 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 many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believe
15、d 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 bitterness 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 ju
16、dgments might differ. So let us all now join together in affirming that mon mitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans. I shall leave this office with regret at not pleting my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past f
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