Richard Nixon: “I favor intimate and frank consultations, and I am delighted that it has proved possible to make this journey so early…”

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

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.

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

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