Richard Nixon: “In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred…”

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.

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

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of…