Richard Nixon: “It is true that the United States in the free world is the strongest of the free nations.”

I am firmly convinced that the record, in its entirety, does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a President.

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.

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.