Richard Nixon: “Under no circumstances will such action be affected by the fact that there is going to be an election November 7.”

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

Our military forces deter potential aggressors and, together with those of our allies, serve to assure the continued security of the free world.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.