Richard Nixon: “I have concluded that this act meets these criteria.”

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

I firmly believe that our current fiscal situation demands national unanimity on the issues of a larger concern.

I do hereby proclaim October 29, 1974, as National Student Government Day.

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…