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Angela Jews and her colleagues at the National Archive have been packing for months. Playing cardboard boxes with odds and ends from the Nixon White House, including gifts given to the president, both priceless…

The gems studing in here are pink sapphire, which are very rare.

And worthless…

I think this is an ordinary beach rock that a donor found on the beach, and he thought it looked like Richard Nixon.

Congress ordered all the stuff held here while all sorts of legal issues were settled.

This is the Nixon White House taping system.

John Powers has looked over and looked after a warehouse full of doodads and documents detailing the Nixon years.

This is the tape box, for the 18-and-half-minute gab. But tapes are also kept here in a vault that is off-limits to the public to preserve them and protect some still classified conversations.

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Powers knows as much about the inner workings of the Nixon Administration as he can, without ever having been indicted.

So how well do you think you know Richard Nixon?

I know him pretty well.

You like him?

At times.

There are roughly 42 million pages of documents stored here, 500,000 photographs and 30,000 presidential gifts. It’s a comprehensive record of history, not just as it was but as it might have been.

OK, here, now we’ve got a problem here.

It turns out Nixon was prepared for anything. When the Apollo 13 spacecraft was severely damaged by an explosion, the astronauts made it back to earth, but if they hadn’t, the president would have said this: they dare greatly, they died bravely, the world will long remember the seering human drama of Apollo 13.

I shall resign the presidency effective…

And though this is the most famous speech Nixon ever delivered, he also had one written that would have stunned the nation.

He was prepared to announce he would not resign.

He says, therefore, I shall see the constitutional process through whatever its outcome.

Of course his dreams of fighting on the vindication were just words on a piece of paper.

Now one of millions of documents researchers will soon start pouring over, to help render a history’s judgment, on the legacy of Richard Nixon.

Richard Schlesinger CBS News, College Park, Marrow.

He is really a good president though there's a ashamed scandal.