0.0 
0.974 I have no complaints about the press coverage/
3.256 I will never complain about it/
4.972 I think that each of you were- was writing it as you believed it/
8.639 and uh I want that always to be the case in America.
12.328 Now. 
14.009 The other thing I want to say is this. I
16.1 
17.615 I congratulate governor Brown,
21.062 as uh Herb Klein has already indicated, for his victory/
25.169 he has
27.321 I think the greatest honor 
29.489 and the greatest responsibility
31.805 of uh any governor in the United States.
34.84 And as he has this honor and this responsibility, I
38.86 I uh I think that uh
41.516 he will now have
43.622 certainly
45.239 a- a position of uh of tremendous interest for America/
51.127 and- as well as for the people of California. I wish him well.
55.406 Uh I wish him well
57.797 not only from a personal standpoint, because
60.818 there were never on my part any personal considerations
64.345 uh I believe Governor Brown has a heart
67.098 uh even though he believe I do- do not.
70.498 Uh I believe he is a good American, even though he believes I am not.
75.117 And uh therefore
77.412 I wish him well
78.832 because uh he is the governor of the first state
81.952 uh he won/
83.942 uh and uh I want this state to be led
87.9 with uh courage/
89.915 I want it to be led decisively/
91.964 and I want it to be led with the
94.338 certainly with the assurance that the man who lost the campaign/
98.135 uh never during the course of the campaign raised a personal consideration against his opponent,
104.081 never allowed any words
106.709 indicating that his opponent
108.604 uh was motivated by
111.137 lack of heart
112.341 or lack of patriotism
114.264 to pass his lips.
115.929 I'm proud of the fact that I defended
118.647 my opponent's patriotism.
120.34 Uh you gentlement didn't report it,
122.786 but I am proud that I did that.
124.755 Uh I am proud also that I
127.204 defended the fact that he was a man of good motives,
130.571 a man that I disagreed with, very strongly, but a man of good motives.
134.148 I want that-
135.399 for once, gentlemen, I would appreciate if you would write what I am saying
138.918 uh in that respect
140.664 uh I think it's very important that you write it
143.035 in the lead
144.964 uh in the lead.
146.181 I don't mean by that, incidentally, all of you.
148.461 There's one reporter here who has
151.266 uh religiously when he was covering me
154.7 uh and incidentally this is no reflection on the others, because some of you you know
159.474 weren't bothered.
160.37 One reporter, Carl Greenberg,
162.567 he's the only reporter on the Times that fits this thing
166.058 who wrote every word that I said
168.857 wrote it fairly, wrote it objectively
171.673 uh I don't mean that others didn't have a right to do it differently
175.288 but Carl, despite whatever feelings he had, felt that he had an obligation to report the facts as he saw them.
181.631 Uh I am saying these things about the press because I understood that that was one of the things you were particularly interested in
188.584 there'll be no questions at this point on that score
191.667 I'll be glad to answer other questions. Now.
194.217 About everything else, I want to express my appreciation to
198.685 our volunteer workers. It was a magnificent group.
201.376 uh five hundred thousand dollars was spent, according to Newsweek magazine, to get out the vote on election day
208.52 they had a right to do that, if they could get the money -- we didn't have that kind of money. But believe me, we had wonderful spirit.
214.659 And our hundred thousand volunteer workers I was proud of/
218.037 I think they did a magnificent job/
220.331 uh I only wish they could have gotten out a few more votes in the key precincts/ but uh
225.261 because they didn't/
226.551 Mr. Brown has won/
228.704 and uh
230.335 I have lost the election.
232.216 I'd like to say a word nationally, I know that some of you are interested in that
236.663 I have not been able to appraise the results of the congress, because none of them are uh in, I only understand that we've- that we approximately broke even, is that correct?
246.587 In the congress?
248.788 Well, at least that's what I have. Do you have a report on the congress, uh
253.295 any of you? it's about even?
255.821 
257.407 They picked up some.
258.493 
259.716 Oh I know in the senate they did.
261.292 Yeah, Bob, I understood that, but in the house, I understand we picked up five, and now we can't tell because California isn't in on that yet.
268.302 Well.
269.126 The most significant result of this election
272.051 was what happened in four major states.
275.474 Rockefeller's victory in New York/
278.05 Scranton's victory in Pennsylvania/
280.621 Rhodes's victory in Ohio/
282.649 Romney's victory in Michigan/
285.209 means that in 1964
288.264 the Republican Party will be revitalized.
290.781 Now
292.27 it'll be revitalized, of course, providing the republicans in California also
297.336 uh can under new leadership
299.627 not mine
300.59 uh because I have fought the fight and now it's up to others to take this
305.449 responsibility of leadership
307.98 and I don't say this with any bitterness, because I- I just feel that's the way it should be.
313.167 But the Republican Party under new leadership in California
316.403 needs a uh
318.148 a- a- a new birth of spirit
320.722 a new birth of unity
322.58 uh because uh
324.758 we must carry California in sixty four
327.722 uh if we are to carry the nation.
330.259 Uh when you look at New York and Pennsylvania/
333.028 Ohio and Michigan/
335.951 uh and the solid Republican midwest/
339.342 nineteen sixty four is a horse race.
343.002 uh I say this with no
345.482 uh indication that I don't think that president kennedy has immense popularity at the moment
351.323 and uh popularity which came out as a result of his handling of the Cuban situation
356.863 uh but on the other hand
359.075 uh now the problems arise
362.234 uh what will happen in Cuba
364.649 uh can we allow 
366.82 this uh cancer of communism to stay there
369.728 is there a deal
371.615 with regard to NATO
373.046 is there going to be
374.426 with regard to NATO and the Warsaw pact
376.787 uh are we going to
378.744 uh continue any kind of an agreement in Cuba
382.301 which means that
383.598 Khrushchev got what we said
385.987 we would never agree to before he made this threat with regards to his missiles
390.21 and that is
391.331 uh in effect
393.856 ringing down an iron curtain around Cuba
396.316 these are the- these are things that
398.438 Mr. Kennedy of course will have to face up to and I'm- I just hope and I'm confident that if
404.631 he has his own way, he will face up to it.
407.434 If he can only get those who opposed atomic tests, who want him to admit
412.264 Red China to the U.N.
413.989 all of the woolly heads around him, if he can just keep them away from him
417.657 and uh and stand strong and firm with that
421.199 good Irish fight of his, America will be in good shape in foreign policy.
425.603 Domestically/
427.352 I'm answering these questions because i know that some of you will ask them
431.654 Uh domestically/
433.146 uh the economy needs to get going again
436.393 uh the Cuban thing
438.641 of course has had a tendency to uh
441.168 to obscure that/
442.429 uh
443.449 a lot of defense contracts have uh come into California and other areas
447.915 I'm not complaining about it ---
449.421 uh that's the way the political game is played.
452.756 uh but uh 
454.08 I do feel that it is important that the economy get going again/
457.921 and I trust that through tax reform or some other
461.659 device
462.788 uh
463.746 relying on individual enterprise and individual opportunity
467.074 that the economy will get going again. To me
469.979 more important than anything else America has got to move now, it's got to move
475.735 forward economically, with productivity
479.006 uh it's got to move forward
481.284 and I'll say it in the
482.736 presence of my friend from Britain here Ed Teplow
486.369 uh it's got to move forward
488.877 relying on individual enterprise and individual opportunity.
493.229 One last thing. What are my plans.
495.746 Well my plans
497.593 uh I'm going to get acquainted with my family again.
500.425 and uh
502.584 my plans incidentally
504.842 are from a political standpoint of course to uh
508.363 uh take a holiday
510.26 uh it will be a long holiday
513.649 uh I don't say this with any sadness
517.025 uh I couldn't feel uh
519.767 uh frankly more uh 
522.673 
524.27 well frankly proud of my staff
526.643 and the campaign they helped me to put on.
528.697 uh we campaigned against great odds
531.572 we fought a good fight
533.49 we didn't win
535.246 uh and I take the responsibility for any mistakes
539.314 uh as far as they're concerned
542.657 uh they are magnificent people and I hope whoever
546.327 next runs in California will look at my staff and uh
549.946 take some of these people
551.265 use them because they are
553.219 they're- they're great political 
555.71 uh properties,
558.454 shall we say, putting in the- in a very uh materialistic way
562.614 One last thing
565.058 
566.357 People say "what about the past"
569.099 what about losing in sixty, losing in sixty four
573.35 uh I remember
575.028 uh somebody on my last tele- television program said
579.048 "Mr. Nixon, isn't is a come-down
581.63 having run for president and almost made it, to run for governor?"
586.195 The answer is I'm proud to run for governor.
588.689 Now I would like to have won.
591.228 But I uh 
592.746 not having won
593.951 uh
595.195 the main thing was
596.564 that I battled
598.035 battled for the things I believed in
600.161 uh I did not win.
602.395 uh I have no hard feelings against
605.824 anybody/
606.844 against my opponent/
608.684 and least of all, the people of California.
611.532 Uh we got our message through as well as we could
614.875 The Cuban thing
617.196 uh did not enable us to get it through in the two critical weeks that we wanted to/
621.339 but nevertheless we got it through ---
623.324 and it is the people's choice
625.215 They have chosen Mr. Brown/
627.147 they have chosen his leadership/
629.131 and I can only have hope/
631.713 that uh that leadership will
634.351 now become more decisive
636.331 that it will move California ahead so that America can move ahead
639.838 economically
641.441 morally spiritually
643.506 so that we can have character and self-reliance in this country
647.285 This is what we need
649.109 this is what we need to move forward
651.176 One last thing.
652.871 The m- at the outside I
654.827 said a couple of things with regard to the press that I noticed some of you
658.367 looked a little irritated about
660.147 uh and uh
662.461 my philosophy with regard to the press has really never gotten through
666.347 and I want to- I want to get it through
668.89 
671.022 This cannot be said for any other American political figure today, I guess
675.514 Never in my sixteen years of campaigning
679.397 have I
681.612 complained to a publisher, to an editor, about the coverage of a reporter.
687.245 I believe a reporter has got a right to write it as he feels it.
691.426 I believe if a reporter believes that
694.234 one man ought to win rather than the other, whether it's on television or on radio or the like,
698.488 he ought to say so
699.977 I will say to the reporter some times that I think well look uh 
703.636 I wish you'd give my opponent
705.289 uh
706.355 uh the uh the same going over that you give me
709.749 and as I leave the press all I can say is this
712.527 for sixteen years, ever since the Hiss case,
715.839 
716.798 you've had a lot of un
718.002 
719.002 uh
720.253 a lot of fun that you- you- you've had an opportunity to uh
724.431 to uh attack me and I think I've given as good as I've taken
728.131 it was carried right up to the last day
731.054 uh
732.293 I made a talk on television
734.881 a talk in which I made a flub
737.508 one of the few that I make uh
739.876 not because I'm so good at television but because I've done it a long time
743.569 I made a flub in which I said I was running for governor of the united states
747.499 the Los Angeles Times dutifully reported that
751.06 Mr. Brown the last day made a flub
753.855 a flub incidentally to the great credit of television that was reported
757.743 I don't say this bitterly in which he said I hope everybody 
761.986 wins, you vote the straight Democratic ticket including Senator Kuchel.
765.967 I was glad to hear him say it because I was for Kuchel all the way.
769.225 The Los Angeles Times did not report it.
772.213 
774.041 I think that it's time that our great newspapers
777.093 have at least
779.299 the same objectivity
780.87 
781.651 the same fullness of coverage that television has
784.487 and I can only say thank God for television and radio for keeping the newspapers a little more honest
790.706 Now some newspapers don't fall in the category to which I have spoken
795.577 but uh I can only say that uh
798.443 the great metropolitan newspaper in this field
801.965 they have a right to take every position they want on the editorial page
806.354 but on the news page
807.993 they also have a right to have reporters/
810.269 cover men/
811.686 who have strong feelings whether they're for or against a candidate
815.625 but the responsibility also is to put a few Greenbergs on
819.533 on the candidate they happen to be against
822.326 whether they're against him on the editorial page or just philosophically dep down
827.624 a fellow on who at least will report what the man says
831.414 that's all anybody can ask.
833.327 but
834.68 apart from that I just want to say this
837.556 
839.426 among the great papers in this country that people say that I
843.371 uh should be concerned about or uh
845.756 uh the Louisville Courier Journal
849.217 the New York Po- Post
851.314 
852.268 uh the Milwaukee Journal
854.005 
854.866 the Fresno
856.179 
857.083 and the Sacramento Bee
859.279 I couldn't be
861.084 uh disagree with that more
862.94 I want newspapers
864.666 If they're against a candidate I want them to say it
867.618 
868.266 uh I believe they should say it
870.137 I don't mind reporters saying it
871.817 uh I would hope
873.335 that in the future
874.526 uh as a result of
876.629 of uh this campaign that perhaps they would try at least
881.937 simply to see that both candidates say
885.222 is reported
886.592 that if they have questions to ask of one candidate, they ask the same questions of the other candidate
892.188 Last point.
894.16 I leave you gentlemen now
896.331 and uh
898.7 you will now write it, you will interpret it, that's your right.
901.777 But as I leave you
903.501 uh I want you to know
905.252 just think how much you're going to be missing
908.383 You don't have Nixon to kick around any more
912.042 because gentlemen
914.245 this is my last press conference
916.989 and uh
918.685 it will be one
920.69 in which uh
922.704 I have uh
924.748 welcomed the opportunity to uh 
926.675 test wits with you
928.137 I have always respected you
930.658 I have sometime disagreed with you
933.371 but unlike some people
936.605 I have never cancelled a subscription to a paper/
939.868 and also
941.641 I never will
942.959 I believe in reading
944.928 what my opponents say
947.058 and I hope that
948.321 what I have said today
950.239 will at least
951.505 make television, radio, the press
954.928 first
956.238 recognize the great responsibility they have
959.701 to report all the news
961.305 and second
963.099 recognize
964.712 that they have a right and a responsibility if they're against a candidate, to give him the shaft
970.42 but also recognize if they give him the shaft
973.5 to put one lonely reporter on the campaign
976.434 who will report what the candidate says now and then.
979.067 Thank you gentlemen and good day.
981.48