Richard Nixon: “This order provides a center through which one of the most important objectives of this administration can be carried…”

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

We think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.

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…