The so-called “last press conference” of Richard Nixon took place on November 7, 1962, following his loss to Democratic incumbent Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. Appearing before 100 reporters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, an embittered Nixon lashed out at the media, proclaiming that “you don’t have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
...A tired-looking Nixon spoke with a quavering voice, delivering what was described as a “15-minute monologue.”[1] He spent most of the talk criticizing the press, his remarks interrupted only by brief interjections from reporters, though he acknowledged well into his remarks that the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 did not allow his campaign to get his message across during the final two weeks in his election bid.[5] Nixon began his remarks stating that “now that all the members of the press are so delighted that I have lost, I’d like to make a statement of my own.”[5] Nixon insisted that the press had attacked him since 1948 following the Alger Hiss case. He accused the press of printing articles supporting their favored candidates, stating that they should “give... the shaft” to future candidates, but should have “one lonely reporter on the campaign who will report what the candidate says now and then”. Nixon reserved praise for Carl Greenberg of The Los Angeles Times who he felt “wrote every word I said”. Also praised was Edwin Tetlow of The Daily Telegraph of London.[1]...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_November_1962_press_conference
I remember some of that, lived in southern CA and was a fan of Nixon. Shook his hand when he was Ike’s VP in Valley Forge, PA at the Boy Scout Jamboree.