Richard Nixon: “We are moving him from the Commission earlier than I would have hoped, but the need here, we thought, was such and his…”

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…

This legislation exceeds my budgetary recommendations by such a large amount--some $540 million--that it presents a clear and distinct threat to our fight against inflation and cannot be accepted.

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