Richard Nixon Quotes
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Nixon, Richard. "Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of President of the United States." 8 Aug. 1974. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard Nixon, 1974, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975, p. 627.
Chamberlain did indeed resign. Churchill replaced him as Britain’s wartime Prime Minister.
Weltner was the only Georgia politician who urged state compliance with the Federal Civil Rights Law of 1964. (See {637605}.) The others advocated disobedience, crime, and obstruction, particularly the Democratic Party Candidate for Governor Lester Maddox who also advocated racial violence and had a history of it himself. Weltner refused to support Maddox, and the Democratic Party then instituted a loyalty oath for all party candidates where they promised to support and campaign for all party candidates on the ticket. Welter refused to sign the oath and support Maddox, and therefore gave up the Democratic nomination which at the time virtually guaranteed a win. (Soon after, the segregationist politicians of the South accepted the Republican invitation to switch parties and since then the remaining racists and anti-civil rights politicians run as Republicans.
Historically almost all dictators seized their power and war criminals committed their murders to “save their nation.”
Speech from the House Chamber of the Texas Capitol after the Supreme Court had ruled 5 to 4 that his opponent, who had won the popular vote, could not do hand counts on contested ballots. He was trying to unify a very divided country. The statement did much to that end.
The statement is made by a government minister who has broken the law, and harmed innocent people in order achieve when he believed was a greater good.
The job of the Community Relations Service was to provide mediation and other services to promote voluntary desegregation in communities. Most Southern politicians were urging non-compliance with the Civil Rights Act, and to be a federal official who tried to persuade Southerners to desegregate was not good for a political career. Collins, to his great credit, accepted the President’s offer. Johnson’s “sales pitch” was the altruistic and patriotic side of the President which often gets overshadowed by his political machinations.
He was reacting to President Donald Trump's demands of Personal Loyalty of his appointees. Trump was a businessman who ran provate (not public) corporations where it was not unusual for the owner to demand personal loyalty of all his key employees. He had not historical knowledge of experience with public service in America where, unlike campaigns, all officials take an oath of loalty to the Constitution and the nation and not to the President. Trump had fired the then FBI Director who was investigationg his campaign for illegal contacts with the Russians, which Trump regarded as an act of disloyalty, especially when the Director refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump.
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, he became the only president to resign from the office, following the Watergate scandal.
