Richard Nixon: “The Chairman of the Civil Service Commission will continue to provide the leadership and necessary guidelines for all…”

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

Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.

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…

It is only a beginning, always.