Richard Nixon: “I announced a decision to withdraw an additional 150,000 Americans from Vietnam over the next year.”

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 am pleased that in this bill the Congress has expressed support for our objectives by authorizing $22.2 billion for military procurement purposes during fiscal year 1975.

I am firmly convinced that the record, in its entirety, does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a President.

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