Richard Nixon: “So nothing has been done, and emergency has followed emergency, at incalculable cost to millions of innocent bystanders…”

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.

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…

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.

In keeping Federal spending under control, we do not intend, of course, to single out only farm or environmental programs.