Richard Nixon: “This is why I said in the campaign last fall that ''the need is not to dismantle government but to modernize it.''”

We will see you again.

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

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…

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