Richard Nixon: “I am pleased to send to the Congress the Seventh Annual Report of the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science…”

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…

My mother was a saint.

I take this occasion once again to urge prompt and final action on the Trade Reform Act.

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.