Richard Nixon actually said...

I am grateful that you have agreed to serve until confirmation of a successor, and I accept your resignation effective at that time.

Letter Accepting the Resignation of George W. Romney as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

11/26/1972

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We have found that where we have heavy reliance on cross-city busing of Schoolchildren, it has failed to meet either of its intended purpose...

A nation can be rich, a nation can be powerful, a nation can be well educated, but if its people lack character it will not stand.

America needs her nonpublic schools.

Let all Americans join together in a new recognition of the vital and positive roles which both the public and the nonpublic school systems ...