Richard Nixon: “Legislation provides the Federal Government with the needed authority to protect an irreplaceable part of our natural…”

This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.

It is only a beginning, always.

We think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…