第一篇:尼克松辭職演講大全
里查德.尼克松總統(tǒng)辭職演講
Richard M.Nixon: Resignation Speech Good evening:
This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation.Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matter that I believe affected the national interest.In all the decisions I have made in my public life I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere,to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort.As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion;that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served.And there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.But the interests of the nation must always come before any personal considerations.From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.But as President, I must put the interests of America first.America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a half years.But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford I know, as I told the nation when I nominated him for that office ten months ago, that the leadership of America would be in good hands.In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow, and therefore of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.As he assumes that responsibility he will deserve the help and the support of all of us.As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this nation.To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision.I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong--and some were wrong--they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, the many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be eternally grateful for your support.And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us in the final analysis have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.So let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past five and a half years.These years have been a momentous time in the history of our nation and the world.They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that represent the shared efforts of the administration, the Congress and the people.But the challenges ahead are equally great.And they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and the people, working in cooperation with the new Administration.We have ended America's longest war.But in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult.We must complete a structure of peace, so that it will be said of this generation--our generation of Americans--by the people of all nations, not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the People's Republic of China.We must now insure that the one-quarter of the world's people who live in the People's Republic of China will be and remain, not our enemies, but our friends.In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends.We must continue to build on that friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave.Together with the Soviet Union we have made the crucial breakthroughs that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms.But, we must set as our goal, not just limiting, but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons, so that they cannot destroy civilization.And so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.We have opened a new relation with the Soviet Union.We must continue to develop and expand that new relationship, so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.Around the world--in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East--there are millions of people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation.We must keep as our goal turning away from production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can at last look forward, in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a decent life.Here, in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings of liberty but also the means to live full and good, and by the world's standards even abundant lives.We must press on, however, toward a goal not only of more and better jobs but of full opportunity for every American, and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve--prosperity without inflation.For more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this evening.I have fought for what I believe in.I have tried, to the best of my ability, to discharge those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.Sometimes I have succeeded.And sometimes I have failed.But always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and with the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that spirit.I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my years as a Congressman, a Senator, Vice President and President, the cause of peace--not just for America but among all nations--prosperity, justice and opportunity for all of our people.There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted for as long as I live.When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon to the cause of peace among nations.I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency.This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.To have served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American.In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.
第二篇:辭職演講(尼克松
Resignation Speech
辭職演講(尼克松)
This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office where so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation.Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matters that I believe affected the national interest.And all the decisions I have made in my public life I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere, to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in the Congress to justify continuing that effort.As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that the constitutional purpose has been served.And there is no longer a need for the process to be prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.But the interests of the nation must always come before any personal considerations.From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body.But as President I must put the interests of America first.America needs a full-time President and a full-time Congress, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and prosperity without inflation at home.Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.注釋:
注釋:
Watergate水門事件agonyn.苦惱,極大的痛苦
Unanimously全體一致地,無異議地
Quittern.輕易停止的人, 懦夫
Vindicationn.辯護(hù), 辯明, 擁護(hù)
中文對(duì)照
(晚上好!)這是我第37次在這里對(duì)你們講話。我曾在這里作過一些對(duì)我們這個(gè)國家有影響的決定。每次我都與你們討論一些有關(guān)影響國民利益之事。我所做出的這些決定,都
力圖為國家最高利益服務(wù)。
經(jīng)過漫長而艱難的水門事件,我感覺到,我不得不辭職,盡力盡快結(jié)束我的總統(tǒng)工作。在過去幾年里,很明顯,我在國會(huì)已不再擁有強(qiáng)大的政治基礎(chǔ)。只要這種基礎(chǔ)還存在,我便會(huì)堅(jiān)決澄清這件事。但現(xiàn)在再做努力已非必要,這樣只會(huì)使程序更加艱難,也是對(duì)繼任者的刁難。
由于已經(jīng)失去政治基礎(chǔ),我沒必要拖延這件事。
不管我個(gè)人的痛苦有多大,我也寧愿結(jié)束它,我家人也這樣黯然催促我。但是,國家利益總是要高于個(gè)人利益,通過我與國會(huì)及其他領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的商議,由于水門事件后,我已經(jīng)失去了國會(huì)的支持,我不得不做出這個(gè)艱難的決定,市民也有這個(gè)要求,國家利益也要求我這么做。我從來就不是一個(gè)半途而廢的人。
在我到任之前便離任,我感到渾身的不自在。但作為總統(tǒng)應(yīng)把國家利益放在首位。美國需要一位全心全意的總統(tǒng)和全心全意國會(huì),特別是現(xiàn)在我們處于國內(nèi)外的各種困難時(shí)期。
繼續(xù)幾個(gè)月前的個(gè)人辯護(hù)將占去總統(tǒng)和國會(huì)幾乎所有的時(shí)間,而這時(shí)我們應(yīng)該做的卻是致力于世界和平及無通貨膨脹的國家繁榮。
因此,我決定明天中午正式辭去總統(tǒng)職務(wù),副總統(tǒng)福特將同時(shí)在這里宣誓就職。
第三篇:尼克松的辭職演講
尼克松的辭職演講
Good evening:
This is the 37th time I have spoken to you from this office, where so many decisions have been
made that shape the history of this nation.Each time I have done so to discuss with you some
matter that I believe affected the national interest.In all the decisions I have made in my public life
I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.Throughout the long and difficult period of Watergate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere to
make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.In the past few
days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough political base in
the Congress to justify continuing that effort.As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it
was necessary to see the constitutional process through to its conclusion.That to do otherwise
would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously
destabilizing precedent for the future.But with the disappearance of that base, I now believe that
the constitutional purpose has been served.And there is no longer a need for the process to be
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prolonged.I would have preferred to carry through to the finish whatever the personal agony it would have
involved, and my family unanimously urged me to do so.But the interests of the nation must
always come before any personal considerations.From the discussions I have had with Congressional and other leaders I have concluded that
because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider
necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of the nation will require.I have never been a quitter.To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every
instinct in my body.But as President, I must put the interests of America first.America needs a fulltime President and a fulltime Congress, particularly at this time with problems
we face at home and abroad.To continue to fight through the months ahead for my personal
vindication would almost totally absorb the time and attention of both the President and the
Congress in a period when our entire focus should be on the great issues of peace abroad and
prosperity without inflation at home.Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon
tomorrow.Vice President Ford will be sworn in as President at that hour in this office.As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness
that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two
and a half years.But in turning over direction of the Government to Vice President Ford I know, as
I told the nation when I nominated him for that office ten months ago, that the leadership of
America would be in good hands.In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of
responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow, and therefore of the understanding, the
patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.As he assumes that responsibility he will
deserve the help and the support of all of us.As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin
healing the wounds of this nation.To put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us
and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so
desperately needed in America.I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course
of the events that led to this decision.I would say only that if some of my judgments were wrong
and some were wrong they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interests of the nation.To those who have stood with me during these past difficult months, to my family, my friends, the
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many others who joined in supporting my cause because they believed it was right, I will be
eternally grateful for your support.And to those who have not felt able to give me your support, let
me say I leave with no bitterness toward those who have opposed me, because all of us in the final
analysis have been concerned with the good of the country, however our judgments might differ.So let us all now join together in affirming that common commitment and in helping our new
President succeed for the benefit of all Americans.I shall leave this office with regret at not
completing my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past
five and a half years.These years have been a momentous time in the history of our nation and the
world.They have been a time of achievement in which we can all be proud, achievements that
represent the shared efforts of the administration, the Congress and the people.But the challenges
ahead are equally great.And they, too, will require the support and the efforts of the Congress and
the people, working in cooperation with the new Administration.We have ended America's longest war.But in the work of securing a lasting peace in the world, the
goals ahead are even more far-reaching and more difficult.We must complete a structure of peace, so that it will be said of this generation—our generation of Americans—by the people of all nations,not only that we ended one war but that we prevented future wars.We have unlocked the doors that for a quarter of a century stood between the United States and the
People's Republic of China.We must now insure that the one-quarter of the world's people who live
in the People's Republic of China will be and remain, not our enemies, but our friends.In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us
their enemy for nearly 20 years, now look on us as their friends.We must continue to build on that
friendship so that peace can settle at last over the Middle East and so that the cradle of civilization
will not become its grave.Together with the Soviet Union, we have made the crucial breakthroughs
that have begun the process of limiting nuclear arms.But, we must set as our goal, not just limiting,but reducing and finally destroying these terrible weapons, so that they cannot destroy civilization.And so that the threat of nuclear war will no longer hang over the world and the people.We have
opened a new relation with the Soviet Union.We must continue to develop and expand that new
relationship, so that the two strongest nations of the world will live together in cooperation rather than confrontation.Around the world in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, in the Middle East there are millions of
people who live in terrible poverty, even starvation.We must keep as our goal turning away from
production for war and expanding production for peace so that people everywhere on this earth can
at last look forward, in their children's time, if not in our own time, to having the necessities for a
decent life.Here, in America, we are fortunate that most of our people have not only the blessings
of liberty but also the means to live full and good, and by the world's standards even abundant lives.We must press on, however, toward a goal not only of more and better jobs but of full opportunity
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for every American, and of what we are striving so hard right now to achieve prosperity without inflation.For more than a quarter of a century in public life, I have shared in the turbulent history of this
evening.I have fought for what I believe in.I have tried, to the best of my ability, to discharge
those duties and meet those responsibilities that were entrusted to me.Sometimes I have succeeded.And sometimes I have failed.But always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once
said about the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and
shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the
triumphs of high achievements and with the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.I pledge to you tonight that as long as I have a breath of life in my body, I shall continue in that
spirit.I shall continue to work for the great causes to which I have been dedicated throughout my
years as a Congressman, a Senator, Vice President and President, the cause of peace not just for
America but among all nations prosperity, justice and opportunity for all of our people.There is one cause above all to which I have been devoted and to which I shall always be devoted
for as long as I live.When I first took the oath of office as President five and a half years ago, I
made this sacred commitment: to consecrate my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can
summon to the cause of peace among nations.I've done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.As a result of these efforts, I am confident that the world is a safer place today, not
only for the people of America but for the people of all nations, and that all of our children have a
better chance than before of living in peace rather than dying in war.This, more than anything, is what I hoped to achieve when I sought the Presidency.This, more than
anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.To have
served in this office is to have felt a very personal sense of kinship with each and every American.In leaving it, I do so with this prayer: May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.
第四篇:尼克松辭職演講中文稿
尼克松辭職演講全文
晚上好。這是我第37次在白宮發(fā)表演講,正是在這里,產(chǎn)生了很多決定我們國家歷史的關(guān)鍵決策。每一次我這么做,都是為了與各位討論事關(guān)國家利益的重要問題。而我相信,在我政治生涯中所做出的任何決定都竭力于更好地服務(wù)國家。
在整個(gè)漫長而艱難的水門事件中,我一直把 “堅(jiān)持” 作為自己的職責(zé),我要盡全力走完人民賦予我的總統(tǒng)任期。
然而在過去的幾天中, 我發(fā)現(xiàn)在國會(huì)中已經(jīng)得不到堅(jiān)實(shí)的政治基礎(chǔ)來證明我的這種堅(jiān)持的必要性。這個(gè)基礎(chǔ)如果存在,我堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為,通過憲法程序來獲得最終結(jié)果是非常必要的,否則就是對(duì)精心設(shè)計(jì)的憲法精神的背叛,并且開啟了一個(gè)對(duì)未來極有危害的造成不穩(wěn)定的先例。
但是由于沒有了基礎(chǔ),我認(rèn)為,憲政的目標(biāo)已經(jīng)被實(shí)現(xiàn),因此,沒有必要讓這個(gè)程序再繼續(xù)下去了。
我原本選擇不論將面對(duì)怎樣的個(gè)人痛苦都要繼續(xù)走下去, 而我的家庭也一致支持我這樣的選擇。然而國家的利益永遠(yuǎn)高于個(gè)人的利益。通過我和國會(huì)以及其他領(lǐng)袖的討論, 我明白,因?yàn)樗T事件,我可能不再會(huì)贏得國會(huì)的必要的支持,沒有這些支持,我無法繼續(xù)為國家履行自己的職責(zé)以及在困難時(shí)刻做出有利于國家的決定。
然而,我從來都不是一個(gè)半途而廢的人.在任期結(jié)束之前離開白宮,這完全違背我的本意。但作為總統(tǒng), 我必須永遠(yuǎn)把美國的利益置于首位。
美國需要一個(gè)全心全意的總統(tǒng),和同樣全心全意的國會(huì),尤其是在這樣一個(gè)當(dāng)國內(nèi)和國外都面臨著挑戰(zhàn)的關(guān)鍵時(shí)候。
如果繼續(xù)我的個(gè)人辯護(hù)將占去總統(tǒng)和國會(huì)未來幾個(gè)月幾乎所有的時(shí)間和注意力,而這時(shí)我們應(yīng)該做的卻是致力于世界和平及沒有通貨膨脹的國家繁榮這樣一些重大問題。
因此,我愿意辭職, 并將于明天中午生效。副總統(tǒng)福特屆時(shí)將成為總統(tǒng)。當(dāng)我回想起在我第二個(gè)任期之初對(duì)于美國所寄予的厚望時(shí), 我很難過我不能繼續(xù)在未來的兩年半里,去實(shí)現(xiàn)我的這些愿望。
不過將政府權(quán)力交予副總統(tǒng)福特,正如10個(gè)月前我提名他時(shí)對(duì)大家所說的:美國的權(quán)力已交付給了值得信賴的人。
在將權(quán)力轉(zhuǎn)移給副總統(tǒng)的同時(shí),從某種深層的含義上我也將明天要落在他肩頭的重大的責(zé)任移交給了他,因此他需要所有人的理解,耐心和合作。
當(dāng)他承擔(dān)了這份責(zé)任,他也應(yīng)受到所有人的幫助和支持。展望未來, 我們要走出的第一步就是要修復(fù)我們國家所經(jīng)受的創(chuàng)傷,將最近的那些痛苦和分歧拋之腦后,重新發(fā)現(xiàn)我們的的共同理想,那些理想才是我們作為偉大的和自由的民族的力量和團(tuán)結(jié)的核心。
通過我的辭職,我希望可以加速美國所急需的愈合的進(jìn)程。
在這個(gè)進(jìn)程中,我對(duì)任何因這個(gè)決策所可能產(chǎn)生的傷害感到最深切的遺憾。我會(huì)說, 即使我有時(shí)做出的決定和判斷是錯(cuò)的——而一部分的確是錯(cuò)的——也是我相信在當(dāng)時(shí)它們是最有利于我們國家的決定.對(duì)于那些在過去艱難的幾個(gè)月中始終伴隨著我的人們,我的家人、朋友和那些因?yàn)橄嘈盼沂钦_的而支持我的人們,我將會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)感激你們的支持。
而對(duì)于那些沒有給予我支持的人,我沒有因?yàn)槟銈兊姆磳?duì)而怨恨你們,因?yàn)闅w根結(jié)底,我們都關(guān)注國家的利益,只是我們的判斷有區(qū)別。
無論如何,現(xiàn)在就讓我們團(tuán)結(jié)起來為共同的目標(biāo),和我們的新總統(tǒng)一起帶領(lǐng)美國取得勝利。
我雖然因?yàn)闆]有完成任期而帶著遺憾離開總統(tǒng)的職位,但是更因?yàn)橛行易鳛榭偨y(tǒng)服務(wù)了五年半而感到自豪和欣喜。這五年半對(duì)于我們的國家和世界都有著重要的意義。這些年我們有著讓我們引以為豪的在政府、國會(huì)和人民共同努力下的偉大成就。但是未來我們將面臨的挑戰(zhàn)也同樣巨大,也同樣需要人民、國會(huì)和政府的全力合作和努力。
五年半中,我們結(jié)束了美國最長的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)(越戰(zhàn))。但是維持世界持久和平的未來目標(biāo)甚至更加遙遠(yuǎn)和崎嶇。因此,我們這代美國人要努力構(gòu)建一個(gè)和平的世界秩序,這樣我們這一代人就會(huì)被全世界人們傳誦:因?yàn)槲覀儾粌H結(jié)束了一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng),更防止了未來戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)發(fā)生的可能。
五年半中,我們敲開了一扇隔離美中之間25余年的大門,我們必須確保占世界人口四分之一的中國人民是我們的朋友,而非我們的敵人。
在中東地區(qū),有1億的人口生活在阿拉伯國家,而20年來其中的許多人都把美國視為他們的敵人,現(xiàn)在他們視我們?yōu)榕笥?。我們必須繼續(xù)建立與中東地區(qū)的友好關(guān)系,才能使和平降臨在中東地區(qū),避免使文明的搖籃變?yōu)槲拿鞯膲災(zāi)埂?/p>
另一方面,與前蘇聯(lián)合作中,我們?cè)谙拗坪宋淦鬟M(jìn)程上取得了重大突破。但是,我們必須明確我們的目標(biāo),對(duì)于核武器,不應(yīng)單單是限制,更應(yīng)是不斷削減直至最終完全取締這些恐怖的武器,這樣它們才不至于毀了人類文明。這樣全世界人類將不再生活在核戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)威脅的陰影中。與此同時(shí),我們與前蘇聯(lián)的外交也打開了新局面,我們必須繼續(xù)發(fā)展和開拓美蘇之間的關(guān)系,因而世界上兩個(gè)最強(qiáng)大的國家才能夠在合作而不是對(duì)抗中共存。
放眼世界,在亞洲、非洲、拉丁美洲、中東地區(qū), 還有成千上萬的人們?cè)谪毨Ш宛囸I中掙扎。我們必須用以和平為目的的生產(chǎn)取代以戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)為目的的生產(chǎn)并加大生產(chǎn)力度,才能讓這個(gè)地球上的所有人對(duì)擁有體面生活的必需品充滿期待, 即使這只是在我們兒輩而不是我們自己身上實(shí)現(xiàn)。在這里,美國,我們應(yīng)該感到幸運(yùn),因?yàn)槲覀儾粌H可以受到自由平等的沐浴,更有過著美好而充實(shí)的生活,甚至按照世界標(biāo)準(zhǔn)來說是富足的生活。
但是我們?nèi)孕枥^續(xù)努力,向著這樣一個(gè)目標(biāo)——不僅僅是為每個(gè)美國人提供更多更好的工作,而是要給每個(gè)人充分的機(jī)會(huì),更要取得我們正在為之努力的目標(biāo)——沒有通貨膨脹的繁榮。
在我二十多年的政治生涯中,今晚都將是一個(gè)重要的里程碑。
我為了自己的信仰奮戰(zhàn),我盡了我最大的努力履行我的職責(zé)完成我的義務(wù),這些都是你們賦予我的。有時(shí)我成功了,有時(shí)我也面臨著失敗,但是無論如何,我都一直謹(jǐn)記著西奧多羅斯福對(duì)戰(zhàn)場(chǎng)上武士的評(píng)價(jià):這些武士的面孔都粘著血淚和泥土;他們都英勇地活著;一遍一遍遭遇坎坷和錯(cuò)誤,因?yàn)闆]有坎坷和錯(cuò)誤就沒有努力;但是他們依然不畏失誤,盡力去實(shí)踐;他們懂得激情和付出,并把自己的生命奉獻(xiàn)于有意義的事業(yè);因?yàn)樗麄冎溃詈玫慕Y(jié)局最高的成就就是成功,即使面臨失敗這樣最糟糕的結(jié)局,也意味著他們有偉大的嘗試的勇氣。
今晚我向你們各位保證,只要我呼吸尚存,我就會(huì)繼續(xù)秉承這樣的信仰。我將會(huì)繼續(xù)為我的信仰奮斗,不論我是一個(gè)眾議員、參議員、副總統(tǒng)又或者總統(tǒng),這個(gè)信仰一直未變,就是對(duì)于和平、繁榮、公正和機(jī)遇的愿景,這不僅是對(duì)于美國,更是對(duì)于全世界。在所有目標(biāo)中,這個(gè)信仰是我矢志不渝投入的,并且我將會(huì)為之奉獻(xiàn)我的一生。
當(dāng)我五年半前第一次作為總統(tǒng)就職宣誓的時(shí)候,我許下了這個(gè)莊嚴(yán)神圣的承諾:把我的任期、我的能量和我所有的智慧致力于和平事業(yè)。
對(duì)于這個(gè)承諾,我已經(jīng)盡了我最大的努力。我自信,這些努力帶來的是一個(gè)不僅對(duì)于美國人民而且對(duì)于全世界來說都是一個(gè)更加和平的環(huán)境,可以讓更多孩子可以有更好的生活的條件而不是面臨著戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中的死亡。
這愿望超越了所有,是我在總統(tǒng)任期內(nèi)最渴望達(dá)成的。這愿望超越了所有,是我最希望在我辭職之后給予你們的。
就任總統(tǒng)意味著跟每個(gè)美國人建立起親密的關(guān)系。而離開它,我有一個(gè)祈禱: 在未來的日子里,愿上帝的恩典與你同在。
第五篇:尼克松辭職演講全文 譯文
尼克松辭職演講全文
晚上好:
這是第37次時(shí),我曾向你從這個(gè)辦公室,在如此眾多的決定已形成的歷史,這個(gè)國家。每次我這樣做的與你討論一些問題,我認(rèn)為受影響國家的利益。在所有的決定我已在我的公共生活中我一直努力做最好的國家。
經(jīng)過長期和困難的時(shí)期,水,我認(rèn)為這是我的責(zé)任堅(jiān)持不懈-盡力完成任期您當(dāng)選箱。在過去的幾天里,但是,很明顯對(duì)我來說,我不再有足夠強(qiáng)大的政治基礎(chǔ)在國會(huì)有理由繼續(xù)這一努力。只要有這樣一個(gè)基礎(chǔ),我感到強(qiáng)烈,有必要看到憲政進(jìn)程的結(jié)束;,不這樣做將是不忠誠的精神故意艱難的過程,以及不穩(wěn)定的危險(xiǎn)先例。但失蹤的基礎(chǔ),現(xiàn)在我認(rèn)為,憲法的目的已送達(dá)。有不再需要的過程是長期的。
我寧愿為了貫徹到最后無論個(gè)人痛苦它將參與,和我的家人一致要求我這樣做。但是,國家利益必須始終來到任何個(gè)人因素。
從討論中我曾與美國國會(huì)領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人和其他領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人,我得出結(jié)論認(rèn)為,由于水的問題我可能沒有足夠的支持,國會(huì),我將考慮必要的支持非常困難的決定和執(zhí)行的職責(zé),該辦公室在這樣的利益,國家將要求。
我從來就不是一個(gè)懶人。
卸任之前完成我的任期是可惡的每本能在我的身體。但是,作為主席,我必須把美國的利益第一。
美國需要一個(gè)全職的主席和一名專職國會(huì),特別是在這個(gè)時(shí)候與我們所面臨的問題在國內(nèi)和國外。
要繼續(xù)打擊通過未來幾個(gè)月的我個(gè)人的辯護(hù)將幾乎完全吸收的時(shí)間和精力都總統(tǒng)和國會(huì)在一個(gè)時(shí)期我們的整個(gè)重點(diǎn)應(yīng)放在重大問題的和平和繁榮國外沒有通貨膨脹在家里。因此,我將辭去院長有效明天中午。
副總統(tǒng)福特將宣誓就任總統(tǒng)在這樣的時(shí)刻在此辦公。
我記得高希望美國同我們開始第二個(gè)任期,我感到非常悲傷,我將不會(huì)在這個(gè)辦公室的工作以自己的名義,以實(shí)現(xiàn)這些希望在未來兩年半的時(shí)間。但在移交方向政府副總統(tǒng)福特我知道,因?yàn)槲腋嬖V我的國家提名他為10個(gè)月該辦公室前,的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人將在美國良好的手中。
通過這個(gè)辦公室的副總裁,我也這樣做了深刻的意義上的重的責(zé)任,將落在他的肩膀明天,因此,理解,耐心,合作,他將需要從所有美國人。正如他所承擔(dān)的責(zé)任,他將得到的幫助和支持我們所有的人。當(dāng)我們展望未來,第一重要的是開始愈合的創(chuàng)傷,這個(gè)國家。把痛苦和部門最近的過去拋在身后,重新發(fā)現(xiàn)這些共同理想的核心力量和團(tuán)結(jié)的偉大和作為一個(gè)自由人。
通過采取這一行動(dòng),我希望我會(huì)加速這一進(jìn)程的開始愈合這是迫切需要在美國。我很遺憾深深任何傷害可能已經(jīng)做的過程中發(fā)生的事件,導(dǎo)致了這一決定。
我想說的只是,如果我的一些判斷是錯(cuò)誤的-有些是錯(cuò)誤的-他們是在我認(rèn)為在當(dāng)時(shí)是最好的國家利益。
這些誰站在我在過去困難的幾個(gè)月內(nèi),我的家人,朋友,在許多其他國家在支持誰加入我的事業(yè),因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為這是正確的,我將永遠(yuǎn)感謝您的支持。和那些還沒有覺得誰能夠給我你的支持,讓我說我離開,沒有怨恨誰對(duì)那些反對(duì)我,因?yàn)槲覀兯械娜嗽谧詈蟮姆治鲆焉婕皣依?,但是我們的判斷可能?huì)有所不同。
因此,讓我們現(xiàn)在都共同確認(rèn),共同的承諾和幫助我們的新總統(tǒng)成功,造福于所有的美國人。
我將離開這個(gè)辦公室與遺憾,我的任期內(nèi)沒有完成,但感謝有幸擔(dān)任你們的總統(tǒng)在過去的5年半。
這些年來一直是重要的時(shí)間在歷史上我們國家和世界。他們已經(jīng)實(shí)現(xiàn)的時(shí)候,我們都可以自豪的成就,代表著共同的努力,政府,國會(huì)和人民。但是,面對(duì)未來的挑戰(zhàn)也同樣巨大。和他們也將需要的支持和所作的努力,美國國會(huì)和人民的合作與新政府。
我們已經(jīng)結(jié)束美國的時(shí)間最長的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。但在工作確保持久和平的世界,未來的目標(biāo)是更深遠(yuǎn)和更加困難。我們必須完成的和平架構(gòu),因此,這將是說我們這一代人-我們這一代的美國人-人民所遭受的所有國家,不僅是我們結(jié)束一場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng),但是,我們阻止未來戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)。
我們已上鎖的門,為四分之一個(gè)世紀(jì)為美國與中華人民共和國的中國。我們現(xiàn)在必須確保一個(gè)世界四分之一的人誰生活在中華人民共和國的中國將保持,而不是我們的敵人,但我們的朋友。
在中東,100萬人在阿拉伯國家,其中許多人認(rèn)為我們的敵人近20年,現(xiàn)在期待我們作為他們的朋友。我們必須繼續(xù)加強(qiáng)這一友誼,使和平能夠收于去年在中東地區(qū),使文明的搖籃不會(huì)成為嚴(yán)重。
連同蘇聯(lián)我們已經(jīng)取得了重要突破,已經(jīng)開始的過程中限制核武器。但是,我們必須設(shè)定為我們的目標(biāo),而不僅僅是限制,但減少并最終銷毀這些可怕的武器,使他們不能摧毀文明。和使核戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)的威脅將不再懸在世界和Th
é人。我們已經(jīng)翻開了新的與蘇聯(lián)。我們必須繼續(xù)發(fā)展和擴(kuò)大,新的關(guān)系,因此,這兩個(gè)最強(qiáng)大的世界各國將共同生活在合作而不是對(duì)抗。
世界各地-在亞洲,非洲,拉丁美洲,中東-還有誰以百萬計(jì)的人生活在可怕的貧困,甚至餓死。我們必須保持我們的目標(biāo)轉(zhuǎn)向遠(yuǎn)離戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)生產(chǎn)和擴(kuò)大生產(chǎn)的和平,使世界各地人民在地球上終于可以期待,在其子女的時(shí)間,如果不是在我們自己的時(shí)間,以具有必需品的體面的生活。在這里,在美國,我們很幸運(yùn),我們大多數(shù)人的祝福不僅自由,而且生活的手段全面和好,和世界的標(biāo)準(zhǔn),甚至豐富的生活。
我們必須對(duì),但是,對(duì)一個(gè)目標(biāo)不僅是更多和更好的工作,但充分的機(jī)會(huì),每一個(gè)美國人,和我們的努力很難達(dá)到現(xiàn)在-繁榮沒有通貨膨脹。
超過四分之一世紀(jì)的公共生活中,我有共同的動(dòng)蕩的歷史中這個(gè)晚上。我爭(zhēng)取什么,我相信以下我已盡力,盡我的能力,履行這些義務(wù)和履行這些責(zé)任是委托給我。有時(shí)候,我取得了成功。有時(shí)候我都失敗了。
但總是我的心從西奧多羅斯福曾說過的男子在舞臺(tái)上,他們面臨受到灰塵和汗水和鮮血,誰努力勇敢,誰是短期errs和一次又一次,因?yàn)闆]有工作,沒有錯(cuò)誤和缺點(diǎn),但誰確實(shí)努力做
契據(jù),誰知道偉大的熱情,偉大的奉獻(xiàn),誰花自己的有價(jià)值的事業(yè),誰知道在最佳,最終的勝利和高成就的最嚴(yán)重,如果他失敗了,至少不能同時(shí)大膽很大。
我向你保證今晚,只要我有一口氣生活中我的身體,我將繼續(xù)本著這一精神。我將繼續(xù)工作的偉大事業(yè),我一直致力于我國各地來的眾議員,參議員,副總統(tǒng)和總統(tǒng),和平的事業(yè)-不只是美國,但所有國家之間-繁榮,正義和機(jī)會(huì),我們所有的人。
還有一個(gè)原因首先是我一直在專門和我將永遠(yuǎn)是專門用于為只要我還活著。
當(dāng)我第一次宣誓就職總統(tǒng)5年半前,我提出這一神圣的承諾:以奉獻(xiàn)我的辦公室,我的精力,所有的智慧我可以傳喚的事業(yè),國家之間的和平。我做我的最好的,因?yàn)樗械娜兆永锸钦鎸?shí)的這一承諾。由于這些努力,我深信,世界是一個(gè)安全的地方今日,不僅是為了美國人民,而且對(duì)所有國家人民的,而且我們所有的孩子有更好的機(jī)會(huì)比以前生活在和平,而不是在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中死去。
這,超過任何東西,就是我希望實(shí)現(xiàn)當(dāng)我試圖院長。
這,超過任何東西,就是我希望將我的遺產(chǎn)給你,對(duì)我們的國家,正如我離開總統(tǒng)府。已擔(dān)任這一職務(wù)是覺得很個(gè)人的感覺與親屬的每一個(gè)美國人。
離開它,我這樣做,這個(gè)祈禱:愿上帝的恩典與你同在的所有未來的日子。