Richard Nixon: “The task of cleaning up our environment calls for a total effort by ourselves and by our next generation.”

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

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

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

I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of…