Richard Nixon: “What a great job it was to get that catapult back on and have those planes going off of it, just like the others.”

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

I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might now appear to have.

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

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.