Richard Nixon: “Mr. President, I am honored to be the fourth American President to welcome you to Washington, D.C.”

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

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…

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.

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