I was surprised Trump said Congress should stop investigating him in the SOTU. Has any other President ever used the SOTU as an occasion to call for a stop to investigations? Not since Nixon did it in his last SOTU in 1974.

I would like to add a personal word with regard to an issue that has been of great concern to all Americans over the past year. I refer, of course, to the investigations of the so-called Watergate affair. As you know, I have provided to the Special Prosecutor voluntarily a great deal of material. I believe that I have provided all the material that he needs to conclude his investigations and to proceed to prosecute the guilty and to clear the innocent.

I believe the time has come to bring that investigation and the other investigations of this matter to an end. One year of Watergate is enough.

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