A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.