Richard Nixon: “We have put at the highest priority moving toward making some progress toward the settlement of that dispute.”

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

May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

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…