Richard Nixon: “These measures provide both the incentive for improving the quality of our environment and the means of doing so.”

It is only a beginning, always.

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

This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret.

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.