What IF Nixon had been able to serve the remainder of his term as President (with Special Guest Star Robert M. Bostock) A SPECIAL EDITION courtesy of The Richard Nixon Experience

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In this special edition of The Richard Nixon Experience, we let you tune back in to that final day at the White House for President Nixon. You will hear excerpts from his resignation speech, his speech to his staff and reminiscences from several different people about those events including President Nixon and President Ford.
All of this leading up to an extraordinary 3 minutes of footage just released by the Richard Nixon foundation that includes President nixon's brief impromptu remarks at the El Torro Marine Base when he arrived back home in California. Until this year that footage had not been released. So, other than the network news casts we had not been able to hear any of the audio from that extraordinary moment when a President, leaving office in disgrace, was greeted like a hero by the people he had led. Not at all the story you have been told.
Then we have invited a guest to speak on this episode. Robert M. Bostock, was an aid to President Nixon in retirement and he has been a great friend to podcast. He recently wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times and in it he asked a question that I hope many of you will ask. What if President Nixon had been allowed to finish his second term?
It is a question worth listening to the answer too and we asked Mr. Bostock to read his op-ed for our show and we will let you listen to it at the end of this broadcast.
I agree with Mr. Bostock, the world would have been a much different and much better place had Richard Nixon completed his term of office.

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1. On the Street interviews with the public in 1974 on the eve of Nixon's resignation (00:00:00)

2. Music Intro (00:01:55)

3. CBS News intro the night Nixon Resigned (00:02:19)

4. NBC News intro the night Nixon resigned (00:03:16)

5. ABC News coverage intro the night Nixon resigned (00:03:54)

6. Host Randal Wallace introduces you to the materials for this episode (00:05:19)

7. segment from the address to the nation by President Richard Nixon on August 8, 1974 (00:11:00)

8. Segment from documentary on Watergate featuring the interview with Len Garment on the Presidents speech to his staff (00:14:16)

9. Segments from the speech to his staff by President Richard Nixon on August 9, 1974 (00:14:59)

10. President Nixon recalls the moments after the speech in an interview with Frank Gannon in 1983 (00:23:02)

11. segment from an interview on NBC "Later with Bob Costas" interview with former President Gerald Ford (00:23:27)

12. Interview with Frank Gannon with President Nixon (00:24:59)

13. Host Randal Wallace talks about Nixon and introduces the new footage we obtained thanks to the Nixon Foundation (00:29:15)

14. rally address at El Torro AirForce station in San Clements , California on August 9, 1974 (00:31:43)

15. Host Randal Wallace introduces the op ed written and read by Guest Star Robert M. Bostock for our podcast. The oped ran in the Washington Times. (00:34:57)

16. "What if PResident Nixon had completed his term" by Robert M. Bostock for The Washington Times, read by the author (00:38:10)

17. Interview segment from President Nixon's interview with Frank Gannon (00:44:38)

18. Richard Nixon Foundation video from the Grand re-opening of the Nixon Library (we opened and closed our series with the audio) (00:45:29)

19. Closing music (00:47:38)