Richard Nixon: “Today I am asking for authority from the Congress to sell those items in the stockpile which we no longer need to keep…”

This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.

It is only a beginning, always.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…

We will see you again.