CBS News - Nixon farewell and departure - 1974-08-09

Name: CBS News - Nixon farewell and departure - 1974-08-09
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[0:23] president of the United States leaves

[0:25] office the first in our 189e history to

[0:27] do so by the rote of res Nation Richard

[0:31] Milhouse Nixon having announced as the

[0:33] whole world knows now last night that he

[0:35] was resigning will leave the White House

[0:38] in a very short time now after a

[0:41] farewell meeting with his cabinet and

[0:43] the White House staff uh they have

[0:45] gathered now in the heast room at the

[0:48] White House and there the president will

[0:50] speak to them briefly uh then uh there

[0:53] will be a handshake farewell we

[0:56] understand uh a sort of a reception line

[0:59] in reverse A Farewell line uh and then

[1:02] the president will move on out to the

[1:04] South lawn of the White House with his

[1:06] family Mrs Nixon and his daughters Julie

[1:09] and Trisha and their husbands uh to

[1:11] board a helicopter to fly to Andrew's

[1:13] Air Force Base there the an Air Force

[1:16] plane will take him on out to San

[1:18] Clemente California and retirement as

[1:21] the president he will leave the White

[1:23] House as president of the United States

[1:26] but before his plane arrives in San

[1:28] Clemente uh the resignation letter that

[1:31] by law he has hand to the Secretary of

[1:33] State Kissinger uh will be uh opened and

[1:36] that will formally Mark the end of his

[1:39] presidency that will be just before noon

[1:41] and immediately thereafter Gerald Ford

[1:44] of Michigan who has been President

[1:46] Nixon's handpicked vice president picked

[1:48] eight months ago when SPO agu resigned

[1:52] he will become the next president and

[1:54] take the oath of office at the White

[1:56] House earlier this morning as Mr Ford

[1:59] left home in Alexandria Virginia he

[2:01] spoke