【正文】 in their is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our down the years, Abraham Lincoln renewed this American article of faith asking, “Is there any better way or equal hope in the world?” I intend, on Monday next, to request of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate the privilege of appearing before the Congress to share with my former colleagues and with you, the American people, my views on the priority business of the Nation and to solicit your views and their may I say to the Speaker and the others, if I could meet with you right after these remarks, I would appreciate though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people39。s urgent cannot stand still or slip must go forward now the peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could enpass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization bond, though stained, is unbroken at home and all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is Constitution great Republic is a government of laws and not of , the people there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of the beginning, I asked you to pray for closing, I ask again your prayers, for Richard Nixon and for his our former President, who brought peace to millions, find it for God bless and fort his wonderful wife and daughters, whose love and loyalty will forever be a shining legacy to all who bear the lonely burdens of the White can only guess at those burdens, although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three Presidents and the lesser trials of all the strength and all the good sense I have gained from life, with all the confidence of my family, my friends, and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Americans I have encountered in recent visits to 40 States, I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made to you last December 6: To uphold the Constitution。and to do the very best I can for helping me, I will not let you you.第二篇：美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇Address_on_Taking_the_Oath_of_Office美國經(jīng)典英文演講100篇: Address on Taking the Oath of Officedelivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, .[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.][Oath of Office administered by Chief Justice Warren ] Justice, my dear friends, my fellow Americans: The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our , I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented pact with my an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speechjust a little straight talk among I intend it to be the first of am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your I hope that such prayers will also be the first of you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice have not subscribed to any partisan am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk who nominated and confirmed me as Vice President were my friends and are my were of both parties, elected by all the people and acting under the Constitution in their is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the Jefferson said the people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our down the years, Abraham Lincoln renewed this American article of faith asking, “Is there any better way or equal hope in the world?”I intend, on Monday next, to request of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate the privilege of appearing before the Congress to share with my former colleagues and with you, the American people, my views on the priority business of the Nation and to solicit your views and their may I say to the Speaker and the others, if I could meet with you right after these remarks, I would appreciate though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people39。to do what is right as God gives me to see the right。 s our duty to speak in this place of I must confess, we’re drawn here by other things as well。by the beauty of the Grunewald and the Tiergarten。here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German separated from his fellow man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a Von Weizs228。ve been toldGeo