QotD
"Looking back on what is still in my mind a complex and confusing maze of events, decisions, pressures and personalities, one thing I can see clearly now is that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate, particularly when it reached the stage of judicial proceedings and grew from a political scandal into a national tragedy." -- Richard M. Nixon, 1974-09-09, responding to Gerald Ford's pardon of him.
['On this day' note: 1974-07-24, the US Supreme Court ruled that Nixon was not protected by executive privilege from having to answer a subpoena for the White House tapes.]