People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

Well, I'm not a crook.

I am not a crook.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.