Richard Nixon: “We feel that way particularly about our own.”

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret.

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.

And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember.