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Richard Nixon resignation speech[edit]

Resignation speech of United States President Richard Nixon, delivered 8 August 1974.

Richard Nixon's resignation speech - alternative version

Edited to remove the electronic buzz

Complete resignation speech by the only United States president to have stepped down from office. Good audio quality. Appears at Richard Nixon and Watergate scandal. Full text at Wikisource, linked from audio hosting file.

Nominate and support. Durova^Charge! 21:10, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Did you upload it properly? It says on my end that the file is 0.0 s long and only 3 kb in size. Z gin der 2009-03-03T03:09Z (UTC)

- Fixed Z gin der 2009-03-03T03:09Z (UTC)

Is it worth cleaning this? There's a lot of pops and noise. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 02:24, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Please suspend this nomination for a day. The source file is excellent, but both of my conversion programs are having trouble with it. Need to troubleshoot. Durova^Charge! 02:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I went ahead and fixed it. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Thank you very much. :) Durova^Charge! 20:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this showed his side of the story very well. Z gin der 2009-03-03T19:09Z (UTC)
The buzz - though not particularly unusual for a recording of this period - annoyed me a bit, so I edited this to remove it. Support alternative Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Nixon_resignation_audio_with_buzz_removed.ogg --X clamation point 22:54, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]