Richard Nixon if I Lose Youll Never See Me Again

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President Richard Nixon'due south Final Remarks At The White House

Baronial 9, 1974

Members of the Chiffonier, members of the White House Staff, all of our friends here:

I remember the record should show that this is 1 of those spontaneous things that we always adapt whenever the President comes in to speak, and it volition exist so reported in the printing, and nosotros don't mind, considering they have to call it as they meet it.

Merely on our function, believe me, it is spontaneous.

You lot are here to say farewell to us, and we don't have a good word for it in English language -- the best is au revoir. We'll see you over again.

I just met with the members of the White Business firm staff, you know, those who serve here in the White House twenty-four hour period in and twenty-four hour period out, and I asked them to practice what I ask all of you to practise to the extent that yous tin and, of form, are requested to practice so: to serve our next President as y'all take served me and previous Presidents -- considering many of you lot have been here for many years -- with devotion and dedication, because this office, smashing equally it is, can only be as great as the men and women who work for and with the President.

This business firm, for example -- I was thinking of information technology as we walked down this hall, and I was comparing it to some of the great houses of the world that I have been in. This isn't the biggest house. Many, and virtually, in even smaller countries, are much bigger. This isn't the finest house. Many in Europe, particularly, and in Red china, Asia, have paintings of great, swell value, things that we just don't have hither and, probably, will never accept until we are 1,000 years old or older.

Merely this is the best house. Information technology is the best house, because it has something far more important than numbers of people who serve, far more than of import than numbers of rooms or how big it is, far more of import than numbers of magnificent pieces of art.

This firm has a swell eye, and that heart comes from those who serve. I was rather sorry they didn't come downward, We said adieu to them upstairs. But they are really great. And I recall after then many times I have made speeches, and some of them pretty tough, yet, I always come back, or later on a hard day -- and my days usually have run rather long -- I would always get a lift from them, because I might be a piddling downward merely they ever smiled.

And then it is with you. I look around here, and I run into so many on this staff that, y'all know, I should have been by your offices and shaken hands, and I would love to have talked to you and found out how to run the world -- everybody wants to tell the President what to do, and boy, he needs to be told many times -- but I just haven't had the time. But I want you to know that each and every ane of you lot, I know, is indispensable to this Regime.

I am proud of this Cabinet. I am proud of all the members who have served in our Cabinet. I am proud of our sub-Chiffonier. I am proud of our White Business firm Staff. Every bit I pointed out concluding night, sure, we have done some things incorrect in this Assistants, and the height man e'er takes the responsibility, and I have never ducked it. But I want to say 1 thing: We tin can be proud of it -- 5 1/two years. No man or no woman came into this Administration and left it with more than of this world's appurtenances than when he came in. No human being or no woman ever profited at the public expense or the public till. That tells something about you.

Mistakes, yep. But for personal gain, never. You did what you believed in. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong. And I only wish that I were a wealthy man -- at the present time, I have got to find a way to pay my taxes -- and if I were, I would like to recompense you for the sacrifices that all of you have made to serve in regime.

But you are getting something in government -- and I want yous to tell this to your children, and I hope the Nation'south children volition hear it, likewise -- something in government service that is far more important than money. It is a crusade bigger than yourself. It is the crusade of making this the greatest nation in the globe, the leader of the globe, because without our leadership, the globe will know nothing but state of war, possibly starvation or worse, in the years ahead. With our leadership it volition know peace, it will know enough.

We have been generous, and we will be more than generous in the future as we are able to. But most of import, we must be strong here, strong in our hearts, strong in our souls, strong in our belief, and strong in our willingness to sacrifice, equally you have been willing to sacrifice, in a pecuniary mode, to serve in government.

There is something else I would like for you to tell your young people. Yous know, people oft come in and say, "What will I tell my kids?" They expect at regime and say, sort of a rugged life, and they see the mistakes that are made. They go the impression that everybody is hither for the purpose of feathering his nest. That is why I fabricated this before point -- not in this Administration, not one unmarried man or woman.

And I say to them, there are many fine careers. This state needs good farmers, expert businessmen, skilful plumbers, skilful carpenters.

I remember my one-time man. I call back that they would have called him sort of a little homo, common human being. He didn't consider himself that fashion. You know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman outset, and then he was a farmer, and then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I tin assure y'all. He sold it before they found oil on it. [Laughter] And and then he was a grocer. But he was a groovy human, because he did his job, and every task counts up to the hilt, regardless of what happens.

Nobody volition ever write a book, probably, most my mother. Well, I guess all of you would say this nigh your mother -- my mother was a saint. And I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order that she could accept care of my older brother for 3 years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die, and when they died, it was like one of her own.

Aye, she will take no books written near her. But she was a saint.

Now, however, nosotros look to the hereafter. I had a little quote in the spoken communication final night from T.R. As you know, I kind of similar to read books. I am not educated, only I practice read books -- and the T.R. quote was a pretty proficient ane. Here is some other 1 I found as I was reading, my last nighttime in the White Business firm, and this quote is about a young man. He was a young lawyer in New York. He had married a beautiful girl, and they had a lovely daughter, and and so suddenly she died, and this is what he wrote. This was in his diary.

He said, "She was cute in face up and form and lovelier nevertheless in spirit. As a flower she grew and equally a fair immature flower she died. Her life had been always in the sunshine. In that location had never come up to her a single great sorrow. None ever knew her who did non love and revere her for her bright and sunny atmosphere and her saintly unselfishness. Fair, pure and joyous as a maiden, loving, tender and happy every bit a young wife. When she had just go a female parent, when her life seemed to be just begun and when the years seemed then vivid before her, then by a strange and terrible fate death came to her. And when my heart's love died, the light went from my life forever."

That was T.R. in his twenties. He thought the light had gone from his life forever -- just he went on. And he not just became President but, as an ex-President, he served his country, ever in the loonshit, tempestuous, strong, sometimes wrong, sometimes right, simply he was a man.

And as I leave, let me say, that is an instance I remember all of us should retrieve. We think sometimes when things happen that don't become the right way; nosotros call back that when you don't pass the bar examination the start time -- I happened to, but I was just lucky; I mean, my writing was so poor the bar examiner said, "We have just got to let the guy through." We retrieve that when someone dearest to us dies, we think that when we lose an election, we remember that when nosotros suffer a defeat that all is ended. We think, equally T.R. said, that the lite had left his life forever.

Non true. It is simply a beginning, ever. The immature must know it; the erstwhile must know information technology. It must ever sustain us, because the greatness comes not when things go always salubrious, but the greatness comes and you lot are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because simply if yous have been in the deepest valley tin you ever know how magnificent information technology is to be on the highest mountain.

And and so I say to you on this occasion, as we exit, we get out proud of the people who have stood by usa and worked for us and served this country.

We want you to be proud of what yous take washed. Nosotros want you to proceed to serve in regime, if that is your wish. Always give your all-time, never get discouraged, never be petty; e'er recollect, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you detest them, and then y'all destroy yourself.

And so, we leave with high hopes, in proficient spirit, and with deep humility, and with very much gratefulness in our hearts. I can only say to each and every one of you, nosotros come from many faiths, nosotros pray perhaps to dissimilar gods -- but really the same God in a sense -- but I want to say for each and every 1 of yous, not only will we e'er recall yous, not but volition we always be grateful to you but always you lot will be in our hearts and you lot volition exist in our prayers.

Cheers very much.

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/resources/watergate/nixon.farewell.html