Richard Nixon: “You have set a fine standard and example for all of the rest of us.”

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

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

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

This legislation exceeds my budgetary recommendations by such a large amount--some $540 million--that it presents a clear and distinct threat to our fight against inflation and cannot be accepted.