by Richard Milhouse Nixon (1913 - 1994)
I'm not a crook
Language: English
I was not lying.
I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
I've earned everything I've got.
When the President does it,
that means that it's not illegal.
I would have made a good Pope.
Lie, lie, lie, lie, not lying!
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Milhouse Nixon (1913 - 1994), quotes from various speeches assembled by Gary Bachlund [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "I'm not a crook", 2007 [high voice or medium voice and piano], from Seven Presidential Pardons, no. 1 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-12
Line count: 9
Word count: 61