Richard Nixon

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• The greatness comes not when things always go good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  Speech to the assembled White House staff before his final departure (August 9, 1974)

  • Failure

• As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

  • Journalism

• I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I’m not a crook.

  Televised press conference with 400 Associated Press Managing Editors at Walt Disney World, Florida. (November 17, 1973)

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