Richard Nixon: “I regard this effort as of the highest priority in Federal manpower and training programs, and with your personal…”

I also call upon appropriate community organizations to cooperate with the Customs Service in recognizing 185 years of mutually beneficial relationships.

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

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.