Richard Nixon: “The date, let me say, cannot and must not be related to an election in the United States.”

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

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

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

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…