Richard Nixon: “If there is one area of Government that should serve as a model for the best use of manpower, it is the Manpower…”

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

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.

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

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