Richard Nixon: “I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Statutes and give its advice and consent to…”

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…

And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember.

It is only a beginning, always.

My mother was a saint.