Richard Nixon: “We cannot meet jet-age transportation requirements with horse-and-buggy regulations.”

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

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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