CBS News - various reports - 1974-08-06

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[0:07] [Music]

[0:27] the camon meeting was hastily convened

[0:29] Vice President Ford for example had to

[0:31] cancel a noon speech to attend and

[0:34] rumors spread throughout the city that

[0:35] the president was preparing to resign

[0:38] but when reporters and photographers

[0:39] were called in for a brief Glimpse

[0:41] before the session started President

[0:43] Nixon seemed in good spirits and all

[0:45] else appeared normal afterward as an

[0:48] unusually large crowd of people gathered

[0:50] at the White House Gates reporters

[0:52] swarmed around emerging members of the

[0:54] cabinet who said the president intends

[0:56] to stay on and wants them to do likewise

[1:01] the foreign policy of the United States

[1:03] has always been conducted and will be

[1:06] continue to be conducted on a bipartisan

[1:10] basis in the National interest and in

[1:13] the interest of world peace and uh this

[1:16] will be our attitude and we will do it

[1:19] the president expressed The Firm resolve

[1:21] to not have this tragedy uh of Watergate

[1:25] obscure not only the accomplishments of

[1:28] the past but our resolve and Sol all the

[1:30] problems of the future and that's what

[1:32] we cabinet members intend to do just to

[1:34] continue to work on the problems that

[1:36] face our country everybody's staying on

[1:39] we got a lot of work to do did he say

[1:40] expect to go through a senate trial he's

[1:43] going to go through the Constitutional

[1:46] Pro that for a tri I assume that what he

[1:50] will do did he did he say expect to win

[1:54] in the Senate he is going to see what

[1:57] happens when that time comes I assum

[1:59] he's going hoping that he's going to

[2:00] come out all right did he concede the

[2:02] possibility that he

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